Institutional links

• Resources

  • Frequently Asked Questions
  • Policy Development and Research

• About Us

  • Information Resource Centre
  • CRTC Interconnection Steering Committee

Privacy and Security
Proactive Disclosure

Telecommunications committee
By-Law No. 9

WHEREAS the full-time members of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission are empowered by section 12 of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. C-22, as amended, to establish special and standing committees of the full-time members and to delegate powers, duties and functions of the full-time members to such committees.

NOW THEREFORE be it, and is hereby enacted that

(a) in this by-law, the expression "tariff" has the meaning assigned to it by the CRTC Telecommunications Rules of Procedure;

(b) a Telecommunications Committee which shall consist of all full-time members of the Commission is established as a standing committee of the full-time members;

(c) the Telecommunications Committee is delegated the authority:

1. to dispose of applications for the approval of new or amended tariff pages and applications for approval of agreements required to be filed pursuant to the Telecommunications Act;
2. to publish, or to give leave to publish, decisions and new or amended tariffs pursuant to section 65 of the Telecommunications Act;
3. to initiate proceedings, and to make procedural determinations except those otherwise reserved to another standing committee of the full-time members or a panel named by the Chair;
4. to issue the interim ex parte orders contemplated by subsection 56(5) of the CRTC Telecommunications Rules of Procedure and to dispose of complaints and applications that are contemplated by Part VI of those Rules;
5. to review and evaluate the construction program of a regulated company where the review does not form part of a proceeding with regard to an application contemplated by Part III of the CRTC Telecommunications Rules of Procedure;
6. to appoint or direct any person to make an inquiry and report pursuant to subsection 70(1) of the Telecommunications Act;
7. to give the approvals or ratifications contemplated by subsection 25(4) of the Telecommunications Act with regard to the charging of rates otherwise than in accordance with tariffs approved by the Commission;
8. to make determinations with respect to depreciation and accounting matters;
9. to establish, modify and rescind periodic reporting requirements and requirements as to the information to be submitted with respect to tariff filings for new services, changes in rates for existing services and floor prices;
10. to make determinations with respect to amendments to procedures and practices in accepted Phase III Manuals, and any related reporting requirements, provided that those determinations do not require an amendment to the Decisions and Guidelines in the Commission’s decisions and orders with respect to Phase III of the Cost Inquiry;
11. to dispose of applications filed pursuant to a Commission directive;
12. to dispose of applications for an order to remove data restrictions, such as those contemplated at pages 262-263 of Telecom Decision CRTC 79-11 and at pages 19-21 of Telecom Decision CRTC 81-24;
13. to dispose of applications respecting whether a person is a "Canadian carrier" under the Telecommunications Act;
14. to dispose of applications respecting exemption from contribution payments;
15. to inquire into and dispose of applications that may be resolved within the Commission’s regulatory framework existing at the time of the application, that:
    

    1.  are contemplated by Part VII of the CRTC Telecommunications Rules of Procedure;

    2.  relate to compliance with, or the interpretation, application, implementation or extension of, decisions of the Commission, tariffs, agreements or arrangements, or otherwise relate to the offering or provision of telecommunications services in a manner that is inconsistent with the Telecommunications Act; and

    3. do not seek to stay or to review or vary pursuant to section 62 of the Telecommunications Act a Commission decision;

16. to determine any matter and make any order with respect to numbering resources used in the functioning of telecommunications networks;
17. to order, pursuant to the authority of section 56 of the Telecommunications Act, by whom and to whom any costs of and incidental to any proceeding before the Commission are to be paid;
18. to dispose of all applications for the costs of and incidental to any proceeding before the Commission made pursuant to sections 44 and 45 of the CRTC Telecommunication Rules of Procedure;
19. to make all procedural determinations and dispose of all procedural matters to be dealt with by the Commission under sections 44 and 45 of the CRTC Telecommunications Rules of Procedure;
20. to dispense with, vary or supplement any of the provisions of sections 44 and 45 of the Rules under the authority of section 28 of the CRTC Telecommunications Rules of Procedure;
21. to dispose of appeals from decisions of taxing officers filed pursuant to section 44 of the CRTC Telecommunications Rules of Procedure;
22. to refer any matter to a meeting of a majority of the full time members from time to time in office for disposition. 

(e) a quorum for meetings of the Telecommunications Committee shall be any three members thereof , except in relation to matters falling within paragraphs (xvii) to (xxi) where a hearing panel has been designated for the hearing of the proceeding in respect of which costs are awarded, in which case quorum shall be a majority of the panel so designated;

(f) no advance notice shall be required for the holding of meetings of the Telecommunications Committee;

(g)  any act or thing done by the Telecommunications Committee shall be deemed to be an act or thing done by the full-time members; and,

(h) by-laws no. 7  and no. 8 are hereby revoked.