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Financing Services of General Economic Interest

Reform and Modernization

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Editors:
  1. Erika Szyszczak

    1. , School of Law, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

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  2. Johan Willem Gronden

    1. , Faculty of Law, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands

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  • Topical political and economic issue, especially in the light of present economic crisis
  • Inter-disciplinary approach, written by experts in their respective fields
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Legal Issues of Services of General Interest (LEGAL)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction

    • Erika Szyszczak
    Pages 1-32

  4. Reform of the Altmark-Monti-Kroes Package

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-85
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    2. The European Commission’s Reform Strategy

      • Stéphane Rodrigues
      Pages 87-98

    3. The Almunia Package: Legal Constraints, Policy Procedures, and Political Choices

      • Tim Maxian Rusche
      Pages 99-124

    4. The Almunia Package: State Aid and Services of General Economic Interest

      • José Luís Buendía Sierra, José Manuel Panero Rivas
      Pages 125-148

    5. Financing Services of General Economic Interest: The European Commission’s Economic Tests

      • James Kavanagh
      Pages 149-159

    6. The Commission’s Modernisation Agenda for Procurement and SGEI

      • Albert Sanchez Graells
      Pages 161-181

  5. Exclusions from the Package

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 183-183
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    2. The Altmark Update and Social Services: Toward a European Approach

      • Johan W. van de Gronden, Catalin Stefan Rusu
      Pages 185-216

    3. Transport

      • Tim Maxian Rusche, Silvia Schmidt
      Pages 217-248

    4. This Won’t Hurt a Bit: The Commission’s Approach to Services of General Economic Interest and State Aid to Hospitals

      • Leigh Hancher, Wolf Sauter
      Pages 249-272

    5. Conclusion

      • Johan W. van de Gronden
      Pages 273-284

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 285-295
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About this book

This book examines the legacy of the 2003 ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union in Altmark. This case changed the direction of how Services of General and Economic Interest (SGEI) should be funded in the EU against a background of liberalisation, and the need for efficiency and global competitiveness. The book examines the European Commission’s response to the Altmark ruling in the measures known as the ‘Altmark-Monti-Kroes Package’ and charts the review of this package from 2009 culminating in a new package of measures, known as the ‘Almunia Package’. The seemingly technocratic idea of a review of the ‘Altmark-Monti-Kroes Package’ could not have anticipated the demanding and changed economic and constitutional context of the EU in 2009. It is in this light that the authors in this book explore in great detail the different components of the new ‘Almunia Package’ of measures introduced in 2011-2012, offering a critical review and highlighting where the future direction of the regulation of SGEI may lead as the EU struggles in an economic climate of austerity to balance a new constitutional dimension of a ‘highly competitive social market economy’ with a modernisation agenda for the single market.

Editors and Affiliations

  • , School of Law, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

    Erika Szyszczak

  • , Faculty of Law, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands

    Johan Willem Gronden

About the editors

Erika Szyszczak is a Jean Monnet Professor of Law ad personam at the University of Leicester, UK and a practising barrister at Littleton Chambers, Temple, UK. Johan van de Gronden is Professor of European Law at the Law Faculty of the Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Financing Services of General Economic Interest

  • Book Subtitle: Reform and Modernization

  • Editors: Erika Szyszczak, Johan Willem Gronden

  • Series Title: Legal Issues of Services of General Interest

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-6704-906-1

  • Publisher: T.M.C. Asser Press The Hague

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Law and Criminology (R0)

  • Copyright Information: T.M.C. Asser Press, The Hague, The Netherlands, and the authors 2013

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-6704-905-4Published: 30 November 2012

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-6704-963-4Published: 14 December 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-90-6704-906-1Published: 08 July 2014

  • Series ISSN: 3004-9962

  • Series E-ISSN: 3004-9970

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 298

  • Topics: European Law, Public Law

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