Information and Communication
Technologies

[No. 15 of 2009 145

to the integrity of an electronic communications network
used for the provision of electronic communications
services to the public;
to the inter-operability of electronic communications
services; or
(d) to the protection of personal data, the confidentiality of
information processed, transmitted or stored, or the
protection of privacy.
An interconnection agreement shall not be implemented
without the prior written approval of the Authority:
Provided that the Authority shall only withhold the approval
where it considers that the interconnection agreement does
not meet the essential requirements
specified in this section.
The Authority shall make a decision on an interconnection
agreement within sixty days of the submission of the agreement by
the parties.
The Authority shall, where it does not give its approval to
the interconnection agreement, give the reasons for the decision.
The parties to an interconnection agreement may, where
the Authority rejects the agreement, re submit a modified version
of the agreement within such period as may be prescribed.
Where the Authority fails to issue a written decision within
sixty days of receiving an interconnection agreement, the failure to
respond shall be treated as an approval of the interconnection
agreement.
Any information obtained by any party to an interconnection
agreement as a result of the negotiation referred to in subsection
(1) and which was, at the time it was obtained—
previously not known to the party obtaining it; and
not publicly available;
shall, for so long as such information remains publicly unavailable,
be used only for the purposes for which it was supplied.
42. The Authority shall maintain a register of all interconnection
agreements, which shall--

Register of
interconnection
agreement

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