Despite the fact that the telecommunication sector is heavily regulated in the EU, several important telecommunication-specific competition law issues have emerged over the past two years. In its recent enforcement practice, the Commission gave important competition law guidance to the national...

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...

In recent decades the relationship between competition law and regulation has become a very controversial issue, in particular in respect of the interface between competition rules and sector-specific regulation in liberalized network industries. The paper examines the controversial practice of...

chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 Theories of Market Competition: Towards a Theory of Dynamic Market Competition (DMC) -- chapter 3 Competition Law and Policy in the EU -- chapter 4 EU Telecommunications Policy -- chapter 5 Implementing EU Competition Law in Telecommunications -- chapter 6 EU...