Overview
- Clarifies the controversy surrounding SGEI by careful analysis of the landmark case law spanning decades
- Offers a clear picture of the evolution of the EU regulatory framework on SGEI
- Explains the mechanisms set up by the EU to enable the provision of SGEI without distorting market competition
- Compares the approaches adopted by different sectors taking into account their technological, economic and political backgrounds
Part of the book series: Legal Issues of Services of General Interest (LEGAL)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book provides a comprehensive examination of the interaction between Services of General Economic Interest (SGEI) and EU competition law, covering in particular Article 106 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) and state aid rules. It also takes the telecommunications, postal service and transport sectors as case studies, taking into account the technological, economic and political backgrounds to these sectors.
The area of SGEI has undergone fundamental developments over the past three decades and the most recent changes in the Lisbon Treaty, recognizing SGEI as a shared value and granting explicit competence to the EU, mark its constitutional significance. The key issue is how to balance economic values underlying competitive markets and non-economic public service values such as universal access to essential services. The essence of the question is the relationship between the market and the state. This controversial issue is addressed through acritical analysis of a number of landmark EU Court judgments and Commission decisions over the decades.
Offering a clear appreciation of the evolution of the EU regulatory framework on SGEI that lays out the limits and boundaries within which the Member States define, organize and fund SGEI, the book is particularly aimed at academics with a research interest in the interaction between public services and EU competition law, but as it also demonstrates clearly how the application of EU competition law has transformed the public utilities sectors, it will be of interest to law makers, legal professionals and policy makers as well.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Services of General Economic Interest in EU Competition Law
Book Subtitle: Striking a Balance Between Non-economic Values and Market Competition
Authors: Lei Zhu
Series Title: Legal Issues of Services of General Interest
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6265-387-0
Publisher: T.M.C. Asser Press The Hague
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: T.M.C. Asser Press and the author 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-6265-386-3Published: 09 May 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-6265-389-4Published: 09 May 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-94-6265-387-0Published: 08 May 2020
Series ISSN: 3004-9962
Series E-ISSN: 3004-9970
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 312
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: European Law, International Economic Law, Trade Law, Law and Economics, European Economic Law