This paper is motivated by the European Union strategy to secure competitiveness for Europe in the globalising world by focussing on technological supremacy (the Lisbon - agenda). Parallel to that, the EU Commission is trying to take a more economic approach to competition policy in general and...

Nachdem sich der Wirtschaftspolitische Ausschuss im Jahre 1988 schon einmal mit Problemen der Deregulierung befasst hatte (H. St. Seidenfus, Hrsg., Deregulierung - eine Herausforderung an die Wirtschafts- und Sozialpolitik in der Marktwirtschaft, Schriften des Vereins für Socialpolitik, N. F.,...

In the article the abovementioned objectives are observed in four parts. The first part of the article gives a short overview about the competition creation through the market entry regulation in general. In the second part, the enterprise activity is treated proceeding from blocking the private...