GREECE Law and Practice Contributed by: Nikos Nikolinakos, Dina Kouvelou and Alexis Spyropoulos, Nikolinakos & Partners Law Firm
the open standards of the API with appropri - ate signalling of identifiers; • co-operate with each other in order to regu - late issues of presentation of services to the viewer and to ensure the proper functioning of the software to the receivers; and • publish the technical characteristics of the APIs relating to openly published standards and/or specifications. The negotiation between companies to reach technical and commercial access or intercon - nection agreements in Greece or in Greece and another member state, in accordance with EU law, is not subject to restrictions under Law 4727/2020. Providers of public electronic com - munications networks shall have the right to negotiate interconnection agreements for the provision of publicly available electronic commu - nications services. Providers of electronic com - munications networks shall be obliged to nego - tiate in good faith the interconnection between their networks at the reasonable request of a third undertaking operating under a general authorisation to provide electronic communi - cations services to the public. In such a case, the third undertaking shall submit a request to that effect to its access provider of an electronic communications network. The content of interconnection agreements is freely negotiated between the providers con - cerned, subject to the obligations arising from the applicable legislation and the regulatory decisions of EETT. The interconnection agree - ment shall include at least some exclusively statutory matters, such as: • the description of the interconnection ser - vices; • payment terms; • the locations of the interconnection points;
• the definition of one-off and/or periodic inter - connection charges; • the terms and conditions of termination of the agreement; • technical standards for interconnection; • intellectual and industrial property rights; • the definition and limitation of liability and indemnification obligations; • the dispute settlement procedure between the parties; • the duration of the interconnection agree - ment; • the procedure in the event of proposed changes to the network or services offered by one of the parties; • traffic and network management; • the maintenance and quality of intercon - nection services and the method of quality control; • the confidentiality of parts of the interconnec - tion agreement; • numbering and signalling; and • co-operation and maintenance (failures in contracting party networks and network avail - ability). A third undertaking – ie, a provider of electronic communications services – wishing to intercon - nect or to amend existing interconnection con - tracts of the access provider with other networks shall submit a written request to that effect. The request shall be addressed to its access pro - vider and shall include at least the following: • the networks it wishes to be interconnected; • the services for which it wishes to intercon - nect networks; • the desired activation date of the requested interface; and • any information necessary to substantiate the reasonableness of this request.
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