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47. The UK telecommunications market has been opened to competition since 1992 and today is a highly competitive market with numerous operators. BT and Kingston Communications directly compete against Vtesse and other alternative providers active in the telecommunications services market. Hence on the assumption that the difference in business rates taxation among these operators involved State aid and conferred a selective advantage upon certain players, it would alter their competitive position on the market and hence distort competition.

- it distorts or threatens to distort competition;

Considers international trade policy to be a key element in promoting competitiveness and growth both within the Union and in developing countries; underlines the importance of the multilateral approach to trade policy and of a successful conclusion of the Doha Development Agenda in December 2005; considers bilateral trade agreements to be a useful tool for the strengthening of trade relations with specific partners, provided that the latter agreements do not distort the WTO system;