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enforcement (mainly competition aspects) and which command fees from licensees.
France has separate NRAs dealing with telecommunications (ART) and
radiocommunications (ANFR). Austria has regional bodies (fernmeldebüro) which are
involved in issuing and enforcing some radio licences.
It can be argued that the involvement of several organisations in the licensing process
may have a negative effect on transparency, however this need not be the case if the
organisations co-operate in providing information and dealing with the licensing process.
In general, so long as appropriate links and cross-references are provided between the
various organisations' web sites the involvement of several organisations does not appear
to have a bearing on the quality or the accessibility of licensing information. Indeed, given
the specialist nature of many of the activities related to the licensing process (e.g.
economic or technical) there can be merits in these being dealt with by separate,
specialist organisations.
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