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The Relationship between Competition Authorities and Sector-Specific Regulators

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

Wernhard Möschel
Wernhard Möschel
Affiliation:
Full Professor of Law/University of Tuebingen, Germany (since 1973), Chairman of the Advisory Committee at the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology in Berlin, between 1989 and 2000 Member of the German Monopolies Commission, from 1998 to 2000 as Chairman.
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Extract

The article is divided into three parts:

— the present situation,

— the theoretically possible solutions,

— a weighing of pros and cons, guided by a standard of regulatory efficiency.

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European Business Organization Law Review (EBOR) , Volume 3 , Issue 4 , December 2002 , pp. 823 - 831
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Copyright © T.M.C. Asser Press and the Authors 2002

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1 Cf. the survey in Monopolkommission, , Hauptgutachten 1988/1989, Wettbewerbspolitik vorneuen Herausforderungen (Baden-Baden: Nomos 1990), chap. VIII, pp. 387–411.Google Scholar

2 Case C-309/99 J. C. J. Wouters et al. v. Algemene Raad van de Nederlandse Orde van Advocaten, 55 Neue Juristische Wochenschrift (2002) 877 et seq.; Case C-35/99 Manuele Arduino, 55 Neue Juristische Wochenschrift (2002) 882 et seq.

3 Excellent survey of the various regulatory patterns in OECD, “The Relationship between Competition and Regulatory Authorities”, 1(3) OECD Journal of Competition Law & Policy (1999) 169–245Google Scholar; attempt of a conceptual founding in Bernhard, Duijm, “Wettbewerbssicherung nach Privatisierung und Deregulierung: Aufgabe allgemeiner Wettbewerbs- oder sektoraler Regulierungsbehörden”, in: Hartmut, Berg (ed.), Deregulierung und Privatisierung: Gewolltes Erreichtes – Versäumtes (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot 2002) pp. 9–27.Google Scholar

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5 Cf. Richard, Whish, Competition Law, 4th ed. (London: Butterworths 1999) at p. 357.Google Scholar

6 Cf. Wernhard, Möschel, “Die Unabhängigkeit des Bundeskartellamtes”, 48 Ordo (1997) 241–251.Google Scholar

7 Cf. OECD, supra n. 3, at p. 221.

8 Cf. Directive 2002/21/EC, supra n. 4, Art. 3 (2).

9 Fourth Protocol to the General Agreement on Trade in Services, Additional Commitment by the European Communities and their Member States, Definitions No. 5 (Independent regulators), BGBl. 1997 II, no. 46 of 26.11.1997, p. 1990.

10 Cf. Wernhard, Möschel, “Die deutsche Fusionskontrolle auf dem Prüfstand des europäischen Rechts: ‘Überflügelung’ oder Harmonisierung”, 43 Die Aktiengesellschaft (1998) 561–566.Google Scholar

11 EC Commission, White Paper on the Modernisation of the Rules Implementing Articles 85 and 86 of the EC Treaty, OJ(EC) [1999] C 132, para. 78.Google Scholar

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13 Cf. Keith, Boyfield, The Politics of Regulation (London: European Policy Forum 2000) p. 38.Google Scholar