Public Interest and EU Competition Law

Challenges of EU competition law for general practice commissioning.

The health white paper has generated considerable debate, but there has been little discussion about the practical implementation of the processes underpinning its requirements. Many commentators have drawn parallels between some features of general practice commissioning and previous commissioning incarnations, such as fundholding and total purchasing pilots. However, the regulatory landscape ...

Public Interest vs. Interest Groups: Allowance Allocation in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme

This article presents a political-economy analysis of allowance allocation in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). A common-agency model suggests that a politicalsupport maximizing government considers the preferences of sectoral interest groups besides public interest when allocating emissions permits. In the stylized model, industries represented by more powerful lobby groups face a lowe...

The relationship between competition law and capital market in Iran

stock market is run by special regulations. accordingly, analyzing the issues about the relation between the competition law and capital market such as stock market officials and their boundaries in the context of setting, controlling and  enforcing rules, the generality or specificity of such rules, the controllability of stock market in comparison to the general competition rules and the stat...

Coherence in EU Competition

EU competition law plays a central role in the process of European integration and has constantly been developing at a different pace. The dynamics of change in EU competition law have been quickened by the introduction of Regulation 1/2003 that has enabled a decentralised enforcement system of EU antitrust where NCAs and national courts have been empowered to apply articles 81 and 82 EC (now 1...

Vertical and horizontal integration in the media sector and EU competition law