There is no doubt that increased competition improves a country's economic performance, opens business opportunities to … “regulating competition issues”. Thus, the question is no more on the necessity and relevance of promotion of competition, but is … on who should regulate the matter involving “competition issues” in light of a specialised body, CCI in place …

-specific regulation and competition law. In this paper, we explore how these two approaches have been used to facilitate the arrival of …European Community law has played a pivotal role in opening to competition economic sectors previously under the … competition. In this paper, we will focus on the first category of market failures, i.e. the bottlenecks that may prevent …

Whereas the EU's internal market rules govern market access and public intervention, its competition rules are … concerned with the market conduct of private parties. When do the competition rules apply to healthcare? In principle the scope … for application of the competition rules to the healthcare sector is largely defined by the Member States themselves. This …

Agreement was reached by the EU member states in June 2007 to remove the competition phrase contained in Article 3(1)(g …) of the EC Treaty from the new Reform Treaty and create a 'competition protocol' that includes the words from Article 3 …(1)(g). This paper argues such treatment of the matter is inadequate to protect the current competition acquis and ensure …