This report highlights progress being made in modernising the banking, telecommunications, electricity, air freight sectors in the Baltic States. It analyses the impact of the EU Acquis communautaire on their regulatory frameworks and trade liberalisation process. It also provides valuable...

Diese Arbeit untersucht den Entwicklungsstand des polnischen Telekommunikationssektors, speziell des Festnetzes, im Hinblick auf den bevorstehenden Beitritt zur Europäischen Union. Der Beitritt erfordert von Polen sowohl die Übernahme des acquis communautaire als auch eine geeignete...

Special access is a high-capacity, dedicated network connection leased from a telecommunications carrier. The Federal Communications Commission regulates the price of special access under its statutory mandate, but has taken substantial steps to relax these policies over the last fifteen years....

Modernisation of service industries and the expansion of international trade have been important elements of the reform process in the Baltic States, aimed at establishing a business-friendly and pro-competitive environment for services in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania