The EC regulatory framework in the electronic communications sector is characterized by the concurrent application of competition law and sector specific regulatory rules. An institutional defect of this dual-regulatory model is the risk of duplication of procedures between competition...

The liberalized telecom sector is pervasively confronted with two challenges, conflicts between the market mechanism and sector-specific regulation on the one hand and conflicts between sector-specific regulation and competition law on the other hand. While the former has been taken care by the...