11.10.2005 Official Journal of the European Union L 266/35 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1654/2005 of 10 October 2005 amending Regulation (EC) No 874/2004 laying down public policy rules concerning the implementation and functions of the .eu Top Level Domain and the principles governing registration (Text with EEA relevance) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Council of 7 March 2002 on a common regulatory framework for electronic communications networks and services (Framework Directive) (%), Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 733/2002 of the European Atticle 1 Parliament and of the Council of 22 April 2002 on the imple- mentation of the .eu Top Level Domain (1), and in particu]ar Commission Regulation (EC) No 874/2004 shall be amended as Article 5(1) thereof, follows: Having consulted the European Registry for Internet domains 1. Article 8 shall be replaced by the following: designated by Commission Decision 2003/375/EC (3), ‘Article 8 Whereas: Reservation of names by countries and alpha-2 codes representing countries 1. The list of names set out in the Annex to this Regu- lation shall only be reserved or registered as second level domain names directly under the .eu TLD by the countries indicated in the list. (1) ~ Commission Regulation (EC) No 874/2004 (%) implements Regulation (EC) No 733/2002 by laying down the public policy rules concerning the implemen- tation and functions of the .eu Top Level Domain and the principles governing registration. 2. Alpha-2 codes representing countries shall not be registered as second level domain names directly under the .eu TLD.; (2 Article 8 of Regulation (EC) No 874/2004 implements the public policy rules concerning geographical concepts by providing for a procedure to permit Member States, candidate countries and all the members of the European Economic Area to request the registration or the reser- vation of their name by their national governments. That provision does not fully guarantee the geopolitical and linguistic diversity of the European Union and the interest of both Member States and European citizens. This calls for the Commission to amend Regulation (EC) No 874/2004 accordingly. 2. in Article 12(1), the first subparagraph shall be replaced by the following: ‘Phased registration shall not start before the requirement of the first paragraph of Article 6 is fulfilled.’; 3. the Annex to this Regulation is added. (3)  The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Communications Committee established by Article 22(1) of Directive Article 2 2002/21/EC of the European Parliament and of the This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publi- cation in the Official Journal of the European Union. () O] L 113, 30.4.2002, p. 1. () O] L 128, 24.5.2003, p. 29. - () O] L 162, 30.4.2004, p. 40. (4 O] L 108, 24.4.2002, p. 33.