The European Regulatory Office (ERO) has informed us that the official Thai application for CEPT TR6101 and 6102 participation was received by their office last week. The ERO will now discuss the application with a team of experts, and then send their recommendation to the CEPT member administrations through a committee called ECC. The administrations have four weeks to respond to the ERO via ECC. ERO will then consider the results of this consultation and if favourable will then make a recommendation to a working group called WGRA (Working Group Regulatory Affairs). They must submit the recommendation 2 weeks before the scheduled WGRA meeting. If the WGRA meeting approves, ERO will then formally write to the Thailand administration to advise them of the result. This will finish the process as far as CEPT is concerned.

So, the critical points are the dates of WGRA meetings, which are 27-30th September 2004, and 5th February 2005. It seems there will not be enough time to make the September meeting, so the 5 February 2005 meeting is most likely. On the Thai side it is likely that Cabinet approval will be needed for this agreement, similar to a Reciprocal Agreement.

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