The EU regulatory framework for electronic communications

Abstract:

• Reform and modernisation of the telecommunications sector
• the drive of technology causing convergence of telecommunications, broadcasting and data processing.
• the global dimension including World Trade Organisation, International Telecommunications Union, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
• the popularity and spread of the EU model.
• the use of competition law in the USA and the EU.
• the British Telecom case of 1982 which established that the competition rules of the EU treaty apply to the telecommunications sector even though it may be a state monopoly. This case began with Commission Decision 82/861/EEC and was resolved by the European Court of Justice case 41/83 (judgment dated 20/3/1985).
• the EU competition rules. Also, what is an undertaking?
• the Liberalisation Directive, relevance of privatisation.
• the Framework Directive.
• the committees and groups, especially the Communications Committee and the European Regulators Group.
• The Authorisation Directive.

Related content

• EU Framework 1 - Introduction
• EU Framework 2 - Competition rules, the Liberalisation Directive and privatisation
• EU Framework 4 – the Framework Directive
• EU Framework 5 – the Authorisation Directive