Telecommunications, Broadcasting & the Internet: EU Competition Law & Regulation

Erscheint voraussichtlich im Oktober / November 2009

Beschreibung von Vorauflage:

As the distinction between TV, computers and telephone break down, how will the current sector-specific legal framework adapt? This new work provides:

* Detailed analysis of regulation and case law in the telecommunications, broadcasting and Internet sectors
* Convergence of these sectors and likely reform of current rules
* Remedies available following infringement of the rules
* Access to the EU market by non-EU business
* Application of competition law to these sectors
* Anti-competitive agreements and abusive practices
* Mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures
* Extensive analysis of market definition, including table of all cases in these sectors showing the Commission's approach to market definition
* Relationship between competition rules and sector-specific rules

This important new work provides a practical guide to communications law at EU level. It is unique in considering not only EU regulation on telecommunications, but also that on broadcasting and the Internet, and in analysing the convergence process of these different sectors. Furthermore, this book reviews in detail the application and growing importance of competition law to these sectors.

Written by Laurent Garzaniti, a senior associate at Freshfields, this work has a practical yet extremely thorough approach to this subject matter which practitioners will find especially useful when advising clients. It also provides an excellent overview of the law which practitioners and the academic community alike will find invaluable.