To ensure satisfactory service quality in the international automatic and semi-automatic telephone service,it is necessary to have an organization which can use the techniques recommended for achieving this.The organizational elements defined in § 2 below relate to the maintenance of the different component parts of the international automatic network and are intended to cover wholly analogue networks and networks provided by a mixture of analogue and digital systems (switching and transmission).Administrations are requested to apply these recommendations in order to obtain satisfactory service quality.