- Business development opportunities for suppliers should be facilitated by promoting full, fair, and open competition in international markets.
- Trade agreements should be promoted that eliminate or reduce artificial market access barriers and technical barriers to trade.
- Access to public-sector spend in UK and EU markets should be on the basis of free access to suppliers of all sizes. Specifiers and buyers should have to justify pre-qualification barriers which discriminate in favour of the status-quo and against small businesses and new entrants to the market.
- Communications services must be liberalized on a technology-neutral basis.
- Communications services must be liberalized on a technology-neutral basis.
- Bilateral and multilateral telecom agreements should provide for transparency, independent regulatory authority, non-discrimination against foreign suppliers, and technology neutrality.
- FCS supports the development and implementation of common-sense enforcement approaches to New Legislative Framework and export control mechanisms that risk distorting the market for recycling and resale of end-of-life mobile phones and IT equipment.
- Enforcement authorities should provide robust guidance for manufacturers, importers, wholesalers and resellers with regard to ‘first placer’ and chain-of-custody requirements.
