This paper aims at highlighting the Commission's approach towards the relation between sector specific regulation and … relation between sector regulation and competition law. Our intention is to offer a basis for comparison and counterarguments … American- and open to third parties, system for access to facilities. Futhermore, we note that recent regulation - Third Energy …

-reducing, EU law requires unbundling (separation) of the VIU networks. However, the EU allows its member states the choice between … incomplete (legal) and complete (ownership) unbundling. There is tantalizing anecdotal evidence that VIUs have tried to influence … are perceived as more corrupt are indeed more likely to apply weaker forms of unbundling. Somewhat surprisingly, we do not …

. -- natural gas ; networks ; regulation ; ownership unbundling ; panel data … empirically analyse the effect of ownership unbundling of gas transmission networks as the strongest form of vertical separation … avoid the endogeneity problem and to estimate the long-run effects of regulation. We introduce a set of regulatory …

We study the impact of the access charges of copper and fiber unbundling on an incumbent's incentives to invest in …