Declaration of conformity used by MEO (2010, 2011 and 2012 financial period)
Declaration of conformity used by MEO - 2010 financial period
Declaration on the cost accounting system of the fixed telephone service, the leased line service and the interconnection service provided by PT Comunicações, S.A., for the 2010 financial period
Whereas:
1. By determinations of the Management Board of ICP-ANACOM of 08/07/2004 and 28/09/2010, PT Comunicações, S.A. (PTC) was declared to be a body with significant market power in the following markets:
- Markets in narrowband access to the public fixed telephone network and of publicly available fixed telephone services;
- Wholesale markets of terminating and trunk segments of leased lines;
- Wholesale markets for call origination and termination in the public fixed telephone network;
2. In that capacity, by determinations taken on 14/12/2004, 28/09/2010 and 17/12/2004 by the Management Board of ICP-ANACOM, the following obligations were respectively imposed on PTC:
- To maintain a cost accounting system (CAS) allowing price regulation measures imposed on access markets to be checked, under paragraph 5 of article 85 of Law No. 5/2004, of 10/02 (ECL);
- To develop and put in place a costing and accounting separation system for wholesale leased line markets, pursuant to article 71 of ECL;
- To implement a costing and accounting separation system for interconnection markets in the public fixed telephone network, under article 71 of ECL.
3. Pursuant to paragraph 6 of article 85 and to paragraph 1 of article 76, all of ECL, it is incumbent on ICP-ANACOM to declare and to publish every year the compliance of CAS with provisions in point 2;
4. Moreover, under the Concession Contract, PTC must be provided with a CAS that appropriately implements the established tariff principles, being incumbent on ICP-ANACOM to approve the system’s implementation and usage method, as well as to check and declare its compliance (article 18 of the Bases of the Concession, approved by Decree-Law No. 31/2003, of 17/02);
5. In December 1996, and after ICP-ANACOM had defined the general principles which PTC’s accounting system should comply with, this operator officially notified ICP-ANACOM that it had implemented a CAS in the scope of the Telecommunications Public Service Contract;
6. Since then, ICP-ANACOM has promoted audits to the referred system by independent entities;
7. In the scope of the audit to the 2010 financial period, recently concluded after results were recast according to determination of 22/05/2014, a declaration of compliance of the referred system with applicable provisions was prepared, having auditors concluded that the CAS complies therewith, in all relevant material respects;
ICP-ANACOM hereby declares that the results of PTC’s CAS for the 2010 financial year were produced in compliance with:
a) Rules defined in paragraph 5 of article 85 of ECL, as regards narrowband access to the public fixed telephone network and publicly available fixed telephone services;
b) Article 71 of ECL as regards the leased line service and call origination and termination in the public fixed telephone network.
Consult:
Declaration of conformity used by MEO - 2011 financial period
Declaration on the cost accounting system of the fixed telephone service, the leased line service and the interconnection service provided by PT Comunicações, S.A., for the 2011 financial period
Whereas:
1. By determinations of the Management Board of ICP-ANACOM of 08/07/2004 and 28/09/2010, PT Comunicações, S.A. (PTC) was declared to be a body with significant market power in the following markets:
- Markets in narrowband access to the public fixed telephone network and of publicly available fixed telephone services;
- Wholesale markets of terminating and trunk segments of leased lines;
- Wholesale markets for call origination and termination in the public fixed telephone network;
2. In that capacity, by determinations taken on 14/12/2004, 28/09/2010 and 17/12/2004 by the Management Board of ICP-ANACOM, the following obligations were respectively imposed on PTC:
- To maintain a cost accounting system (CAS) allowing price regulation measures imposed on access markets to be checked, under paragraph 5 of article 85 of Law No. 5/2004, of 10/02, repealed by Law No. 51/2011, of 13/09 (ECL);
- To develop and put in place a costing and accounting separation system for wholesale leased line markets, pursuant to article 71 of ECL;
- To implement a costing and accounting separation system for interconnection markets in the public fixed telephone network, under article 71 of ECL.
3. Pursuant to paragraph 6 of article 85 and to paragraph 1 of article 76, all of ECL, it is incumbent on ICP-ANACOM to declare and to publish every year the compliance of CAS with provisions in point 2;
4. Moreover, under the Concession Contract, PTC must be provided with a CAS that appropriately implements the established tariff principles, being incumbent on ICP-ANACOM to approve the system’s implementation and usage method, as well as to check and declare its compliance (article 18 of the Bases of the Concession, approved by Decree-Law No. 31/2003, of 17/02);
5. In December 1996, and after ICP-ANACOM had defined the general principles which PTC’s accounting system should comply with, this operator officially notified ICP-ANACOM that it had implemented a CAS in the scope of the Telecommunications Public Service Contract;
6. Since then, ICP-ANACOM has promoted audits to the referred system by independent entities;
7. In the scope of the audit to the 2011 financial period, recently concluded after results were recast according to determination of 22/05/2014, a declaration of compliance of the referred system with applicable provisions was prepared, having auditors concluded that the CAS complies therewith, in all relevant material respects;
ICP-ANACOM hereby declares that the results of PTC’s CAS for the 2011 financial year were produced in compliance with:
a) Rules defined in paragraph 5 of article 85 of ECL, as regards narrowband access to the public fixed telephone network and publicly available fixed telephone services;
b) Article 71 of ECL as regards the leased line service and call origination and termination in the public fixed telephone network.
Consult:
Declaration of conformity used by MEO - 2012 financial period
Declaration on the cost accounting system of the fixed telephone service, the leased line service and the interconnection service provided by PT Comunicações, S.A., for the 2012 financial period
Whereas:
1. By determinations of the Management Board of ICP-ANACOM of 08/07/2004 and 28/09/2010, PT Comunicações, S.A. (PTC) was declared to be a body with significant market power in the following markets:
- Markets in narrowband access to the public fixed telephone network and of publicly available fixed telephone services;
- Wholesale markets of terminating and trunk segments of leased lines;
- Wholesale markets for call origination and termination in the public fixed telephone network;
2. In that capacity, by determinations taken on 14/12/2004, 28/09/2010 and 17/12/2004 by the Management Board of ICP-ANACOM, the following obligations were respectively imposed on PTC:
- To maintain a cost accounting system (CAS) allowing price regulation measures imposed on access markets to be checked, under paragraph 5 of article 85 of Law No. 5/2004, of 10/02, as amended by Law No. 51/2011, of 13 September, as well as by Law No. 10/2013, of 28 January, Law No. 42/2013, of 3 July, and Decree-Law No. 35/2014, of 7 March (ECL);
- To develop and put in place a costing and accounting separation system for wholesale leased line markets, pursuant to article 71 of ECL;
- To implement a costing and accounting separation system for interconnection markets in the public fixed telephone network, under article 71 of ECL.
3. Pursuant to paragraph 6 of article 85 and to paragraph 1 of article 76, all of ECL, it is incumbent on ICP-ANACOM to declare and to publish every year the compliance of CAS with provisions in point 2;
4. Moreover, under the Concession Contract, PTC must be provided with a CAS that appropriately implements the established tariff principles, being incumbent on ICP-ANACOM to approve the system’s implementation and usage method, as well as to check and declare its compliance (article 18 of the Bases of the Concession, approved by Decree-Law No. 31/2003, of 17/02);
5. In December 1996, and after ICP-ANACOM had defined the general principles which PTC’s accounting system should comply with, this operator officially notified ICP-ANACOM that it had implemented a CAS in the scope of the Telecommunications Public Service Contract;
6. Since then, ICP-ANACOM has promoted audits to the referred system by independent entities;
7. In the scope of the audit to the 2012 financial period, recently concluded after results were recast according to determination of 22/05/2014, a declaration of compliance of the referred system with applicable provisions was prepared, having auditors concluded that the CAS complies therewith, in all relevant material respects;
ICP-ANACOM hereby declares that the results of PTC’s CAS for the 2012 financial year were produced in compliance with:
a) Rules defined in paragraph 5 of article 85 of ECL, as regards narrowband access to the public fixed telephone network and publicly available fixed telephone services;
b) Article 71 of ECL as regards the leased line service and call origination and termination in the public fixed telephone network.
