PHASING OUT SECTOR-SPECIFIC REGULATION IN EUROPEAN TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Günter Knieps and Patrick Zenhäusern

Journal of Competition Law and Economics, 2010, vol. 6, issue 4, 995-1006

Abstract: The European Commission Recommendation 2007/879/EC has become known as an important innovation towards phasing out sector-specific regulation of electronic communications. Eleven of the eighteen markets are no longer regarded as needing to be subject to sector-specific ex ante regulation. Although the important role of active and potential competition in telecommunications markets has been mentioned, the economically founded implications of the “three-criteria-test” in the Commission Recommendation 2003/311/EC have not yet been implemented. As a consequence, the relevance of regulation in the remaining seven markets remains vague. To provide a superior alternative, the analytical concept of a disaggregated regulatory approach is applied. Sector-specific regulatory interventions are to be limited to network-specific market power. As a consequence, only two of the seven remaining markets in the European Commission Recommendation 2007/879/EC are possible candidates for regulation.

JEL-codes: L51 L96 L98 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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