European Competition Law Annual 1998: Regulating Communications Markets

by Claus-Dieter Ehlermann (Editor), Philip Lowe (Editor), Louisa Gosling (Editor), Mel Marquis (Editor), Giorgio Monti (Editor)

Overview

The 1998 Volume on the regulation of communications markets is the third in a successful series of European Competition Law Annuals,founded upon open dialogue between technical experts, market analysts and legal practitioners. Gathering together academic papers and edited transcripts of expert discussions, it offers readers a lively and informed insight into the topical debate of whether governments, or the European Union, should intervene to prevent powerful firms from abusing their control of critical 'gateways' between consumers and communication information services. The Volume examines the technical and market evolutions that have allowed the development of single communications networks, which offer consumers a variety of telephone, audio-visual and computer data services. In an era of market liberalisation, the editors and contributors ask how private ownership of such communications networks may be reconciled with the need to ensure consumers easy access to the services that underpin our, so-called, 'information society'.



Table of Contents

Introduction - Claus D. Ehlermann

Biographical Notes on the Participants

Panel One: Regulating Access to Bottlenecks

1 Panel Discussion

2 Working Papers - Fod Barnes, Bernard Amory and Alexandre Verheyden, Jens Arnbak, Henry Ergas, Herbert Hovenkamp, Gunter Knieps, Daniel Rubinfield and Robert Majur, Joachim Scherer, Herbert Hungerer, James Venit

Panel Two: Agreements, Integration and Structural Remedies

1 Panel Discussion

2 Working Papers - Mark Armstrong, Donald Baker, Eleanor Fox, Barry Hawk, Colin Long, Michael Reynolds, Alexander Schaub, Klaus-Dieter Scheurle, Mario Siragusa

Panel Three: Institutions and Competence

1 Panel Discussion

2 Working Papers - Ulrich Immenga, Stuart Brotman, Ian Forrester, Frederic Jenny, Bruno Lasserre, Santiago Martinez Lage and Helmut Brokelmann, James Rill, Mary Jean Fell, Richard Park and Sarah Bauers, Giuseppe Tesauro, Robert Verrue, Peter Waters, David Stewart and Andrew Simpson, Dieter Wolf, Dimitri Ypsilanti

Afterword - Louisa Gosling

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781841130996
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	09/14/2000
Series:	European Competition Law Annual , #3
Pages:	852
Product dimensions:	6.05(w) x 9.56(h) x 1.94(d)

About the Author

Claus-Dieter Ehlermann is Senior Counsel with Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP in Brussels, former Professor of EC Law at the European University Institute in Florence, and former Director General in both the Competition Directorate and Legal Service of the European Commission. He has also served as Member and Chairman of the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization.

Philip Lowe is a Non-Executive Director of the UK Competition and Markets Authority.

Louisa Gosling is a Research Fellow of the EUI in Florence.

Mel Marquis is Part-time Professor of Law at the European University Institute in Florence and Professore a contratto at LUMSA University in Rome.

Giorgio Monti is Professor of Competition Law at Tilburg University, the Netherlands.

Editorial Reviews

Presenting academic papers and edited transcripts of panel discussions first presented at the Third Workshop on European Competition Law held in Florence in 1998, this volume provides insight into the debate of whether governments or the European Union should intervene to prevent powerful firms from abusing their control of critical gateways between consumers and communication information services. The volume's three sections, consisting of a panel discussion accompanied by from nine to 12 academic papers, are organized into three themes: regulating access to bottlenecks; agreements, integration, and structural remedies; and institutions and competence. Panel participants include professors of economics, law, and telecommunications; lawyers specializing in European trade and telecommunications law; policy, trade, and technology advisors and consultants; and others. Distributed by ISBS. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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