Annex
Telecommunications Sector Requirements Annex
This annex identifies the overlay obligations that apply when the organization operates a public electronic communications network or service, or provides services that depend on one. It covers network security, lawful interception, data retention, emergency calling and resilience, vendor and supply-chain restrictions, customer privacy under sector-specific rules, and number- and addressing-resource obligations.
- Type
- Annex
- Version
- 0.0.10
- Date
- 2026-10-04
- Owner
- Chief Compliance Officer
- Approving authority
- Governance Library Maintainer
- Classification
- Public
- Confidentiality
- Public
- Category
- Compliance: Sector-Specific
- Review frequency
- Annual and upon material licence, lawful-access, or sector-supervision change
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
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Outline
- Purpose
- Applicability triggers
- Overlay area 1: sector cybersecurity obligations
- Overlay area 2: lawful interception and lawful-access cooperation
- Overlay area 3: data retention
- Overlay area 4: customer privacy under sector rules
- Overlay area 5: emergency calling and resilience
- Overlay area 6: vendor and supply-chain restrictions
- Overlay area 7: numbering and addressing resources
- Library gaps requiring additional documentation
- Framework alignment
- Limitations
Frameworks it maps to
- EU EECC
- EU ePrivacy Directive
- EU NIS 2
- UK Telecommunications (Security) Act 2021
- UK PECR
- US Communications Act, FCC rules
- US CALEA
- Canada Telecommunications Act
- ETSI TS 102 232 series
- ITU-T Recommendations
Related documents
- compliance/
README.md (opens in a new tab) source - Legal and Regulatory Compliance Policycompliance
- Global Regulatory Applicability Registercompliance
- NIS 2 Implementation Annexcompliance
- Information Security Policysecurity
- Logging and Monitoring Standardsecurity
- Supplier and Cloud Governance Frameworksupply-chain
- Third-Party and Supply Chain Risk Standardrisk
- Privacy and Data Governance Policyprivacy
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