43In the absence of any specific provision in this regard in Directive 2002/22, it falls to the national regulatory authority to lay down general and objective criteria which make it possible to determine the thresholds beyond which – taking account of the characteristics mentioned in the preceding paragraph – a burden may be regarded as unfair. However, the fact remains that the authority cannot find that the burden of providing universal service is unfair, for the purpose of Article 13 of the directive, unless it carries out an individual assessment of the situation of each undertaking concerned in the light of those criteria.
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