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The present paper examines the last, quintessential steps in the parcours towards the final implementation of the EU Biotechnnology Directive in Belgian patent law. Whereas the first bill was hotly debated in parliament [see G. Van Overwalle, ‘Of Green Mice with Red Ears’,...
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The present paper provides a thorough analysis of the genesis and content of the Belgian Bill of September 21 2004 implementing the EU Biotechnology. A careful comparison is made with the previous Bill of June 21 2002. Wide attention is also paid to the opinion of the Conseil d’ Etat regarding...
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What is a good balance between competition and coordination in network industries? Network unbundling aims to promote competition, but this has to be balanced against the downside of unbundling: firm-internal coordination falls away and must be replaced by external market mechanisms. This is a...
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The Russian Federation is in the process of making major structural changes to its railway and electricity sectors. Both sectors will be at least partly vertically disintegrated, with the aim of creating competition in the "upstream" sector while maintaining state ownership and control of the...
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liberalisation of the gas market whose functioning cannot disregard the network infrastructure required to bring this fuel to the … EU legislation on the liberalisation and organisation of the internal market in gas. Competition on the downstream gas … upstream and downstream markets is not "synchronous", a discrepancy which can weaken the impact of liberalisation. Moreover …
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-making can be expected. Liberalisation at the European level contradicts widespread interventionist transport policy traditions … transport policy tradition, are affected by European liberalisation. We find that all of the three countries have abandoned …
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