Article I Definitions For the purposes of this Convention: (a) "Convention" means the Convention establishing the European Telecommunications Satellite Organization "EUTELSAT", including its Preamble and its Annexes, opened for signature by Governments at Paris, on 15 July 1982; (b) "Operating Agreement" means the Operating Agreement relating to the European Telecommunications Satellite Organization "EUTELSAT", including its Preamble and its Annexes, opened for signature, at Paris, on 15 July 1982; (c) "Provisional Agreement" means the Agreement on the Constitution of a Provisional European Telecommunications Satellite Organization "INTERIM EUTELSAT", done at Paris, on 13 May 1977 between Administrations or Recognized Private Operating Agencies and deposited with the French Administration; (d) "ECS Agreement" means the Supplementary Agreement to the Provisional Agreement relating to the space segment of the Satellite Telecommunications System for the Fixed Service (ECS), done at Paris, on 10 March 1978; (e) "Party" means a State for which the Convention has entered into force or has been provisionally applied; (f) "Signatory" means the telecommunications entity or the Party which has signed the Operating Agreement and for which it has entered into force or has been provisionally applied; (g) "Space segment" means a set of telecommunications satellites, and the tracking, telemetering, command, control, monitoring and related facilities and equipment for the operational support of those satellites; (h) "EUTELSAT Space Segment" means the space segment owned or leased by EUTELSAT for the purpose of the objectives listed under paragraphs (a), (b), (c) and (e) of Article III of the Convention; (i) "Satellite telecommunications system" means the unit formed by a space segment and the earth stations having access to that space segment; (j) "Telecommunications" means any transmission, emission or reception of signs, signals, writing, images and sounds or intelligence of any nature, by wire, radio, optical or other electromagnetic systems; (k) "Public telecommunications services" means fixed or mobile telecommunications services which can be provided by satellite and which are available to the public, such as telephony, telegraphy, telex, facsimile, data transmission, videotex, transmission of radio and television programmes between approved earth stations having access to the EUTELSAT Space Segment for further transmission to the public; multiservices transmissions; and leased circuits to be used in any of these services; (l) "Specialized telecommunications services" means telecommunications services which can be provided by satellite, other than those defined in paragraph (k) of this Article, including, but not limited to, radio navigation services, broadcasting satellite services, space research services, meteorological services, and remote sensing of earth resources services.