In order to define the national strategy for universal services and to ensure its adequate steering and monitoring, a decision-making body was created by decree n° 2-97-1026, covering the general conditions for operating public telecommunications networks.
This inter-ministerial body is the CGSUT (The Management Committee for Universal Telecommunications Services). It is established by the Head of Government and chaired by him. The members are as follows:
- The governmental authority for the Interior;
- The governmental authority for Territorial Development;
- The governmental authority for Finances;
- The governmental authority for Telecommunications;
- The governmental authority for National Defence;
- The President of the ANRT Management Committee;
- The ANRT Director General.
The aims of this committee are as follows:
- Determining the implementation program for universal services across the national territory;
- Proposing, for each call for tender, universal services content in line with the provisions of aforementioned law n°24–96;
- Examining the programs proposed by existing public telecommunications network operators;
- Approving the requirement specifications as submitted by ANRT in calls for tender for the programs not carried out by existing public telecommunications network operators.
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