1. Each Party has the right to define the kind of universal service obligations it wishes to maintain.

2. Each Party shall ensure that any measure on universal service that it adopts or maintains is administered in a transparent, objective, non-discriminatory and competitively neutral manner. Each Party shall also ensure that any universal service obligation it imposes is not more burdensome than necessary for the kind of universal service that the Party has defined.

3. All suppliers should be eligible to ensure universal service. If a supplier is to be designated as the supplier of a universal service, the Parties shall ensure that the selection is made through an efficient, transparent and non-discriminatory mechanism.