Those competitive safeguards do not prejudice the identification by national regulatory authorities of other circumstances under which it would be appropriate not to impose regulated access prices for certain wholesale inputs, such as where high price elasticity of end-user demand makes it unprofitable for the undertaking designated as having significant market power to charge prices appreciably above the competitive level or where lower population density reduces the incentives for the development of very high capacity networks and the national regulatory authority establishes that effective and non-discriminatory access is ensured through obligations imposed in accordance with this Directive.
Ní dochar an choimirce iomaíochta sin do shainaithint imthosca eile, arna dhéanamh ag údaráis rialála náisiúnta, ar imthosca iad faoina mbeadh sé iomchuí gan praghsanna rochtana rialáilte a fhorchur le haghaidh ionchuir mhórdhíola áirithe, amhail i gcás ina mbeidh praghasleaisteachas an éilimh ón úsáideoir deiridh á dhéanamh neamhbhrabúsach don ghnóthas a ainmnítear mar ghnóthais a bhfuil cumhacht shuntasach sa mhargadh aige praghsanna a ghearradh atá go suntasach os cionn an leibhéil iomaíoch nó i gcás ina laghdaítear na dreasachtaí maidir le líonraí fíor-ardacmhainne a fhorbairt mar gheall ar dhlús daonra níos ísle agus ina suíonn an t-údarás rialála náisiúnta go n-áirithítear rochtain éifeachtach neamh-idirdhealaithe trí na hoibleagáidí a fhorchuirtear i gcomhréir leis an Treoir seo.