TAP3 Open Standard Specifications
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GSM Mou Association having its registered office at Route de Meyrin 49, 1211, Geneva Switzerland ('the Association') is the owner of intellectual property rights, confidential information and permanent reference documents (PRDs). Certain PRDs contain a billing format known as Transferred Account Procedure Date Record Format Specification, Version No. 3 ('TAP3 Format') . Other documents owned by the Association contain a general scenario for TAP3 Format ('the Scenarios') , information on implementing TAP3 (‘the Implementation Handbook’) and a rejects and returns process ('the Rejects and Returns Process'). The documentation containing the TAP3 Format, the Scenarios, the Implementation Handbook and the Rejects and Returns Process (collectively known hereinafter as 'the Information') is listed in Annex 1.
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ANNEX 1
Licence copyright, confidential information and other intellectual property rights contained in the following permanent reference documents:
(a)TD.57 [Transferred Account Procedure Data Record Format Specification Version Number 3]
(b)TD.32 [Rejects and Return Process]
(c)TD 60 [General Scenario for the Transferred Account Procedure Data Record Format Specification Version Number 3]
(d)TD 58 [TAP Implementation Handbook]
