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The Future Regulatory Framework for Telecommunications: General Competition Law instead of Sector-Specific Regulation – A German Perspective

  • Wernhard Möschel (a1)
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The legal framework of telecommunications regulation is about to change. This is due to the reform package which the Commission submitted in November 2007. The European Parliament and the Council of Ministers are still to approve. There is ongoing political debate. Unfortunately, it does not cover the crucial issue: is the sector-specific ex ante telecommunications regulation still justified after ten years of liberalisation and a partly dramatic evolution towards competition? The author replies in the negative from a historical, a regulatory policy and an analytical perspective. De lege lata, the three-criteria test, if applied correctly, induces this outcome. De lege ferenda, a sunset rule, if need be a qualified one, would be useful.

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* Dr. iur., Professor of Commercial Law at the University of Tübingen, member of the Monopoly Commission from 1989 to 2000, serving as Chair from 1998-2000, and member of the Scientific Advisory Council at the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology since 1987, Chair from 2000 to 2004. He was a member of the Government Commission for Telecommunications (1985 to 1987) which prepared the initial steps toward deregulation in Germany.

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European Business Organization Law Review (EBOR)
  • ISSN: 1566-7529
  • EISSN: 1741-6205
  • URL: /core/journals/european-business-organization-law-review-ebor
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