OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC REPUBLIC OF COTE D'IVOIRE Union labor discipline Ordinance n ° 2012-293 of March 21 2012 relating to Telecommunications and Information and Communication Technologies Page 2 TITLE I: GENERAL PROVISIONS Article 1: The hereby ordinance governs all the Telecommunications / ICT activities to the territory of the Republic of Ivory Coast with the exception of: - The establishment and operation of Telecommunications / ICT networks and services by the State for the purpose of the national defense, the public safety and the aviation and off-shore safety; - The facilities of the State using, for the purpose of the administration agreement with the viewpoints and prescriptions of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU); - The regulation as regards audiovisual policy and content. Article 2 : For the purpose of the hereby ordinance, the hereafter terms are defined as follows: 2.1 Access: provision provided by a Public Telecommunications / ICT operator or permitting to a service provider to access to its resources and infrastructures. 2.2 Unpacked Access to the local loop: the cable-controlled local loop. It does not involve any change in the ownership of the local loop is concerned. 2.3 Shared Access to the local loop: providing local access to the cable-controlled loop of a notification operator, in order to permit the beneficiary of this access to use voice-frequencies of the frequency spectra available on the metallic twisted pair. The local continue to be used by the operator public. 2.4 Fully unpacked Access to the local loop: