Full Description
This book explores the evolution of EU economic law through an analysis of regulatory spaces in various fields of EU economic regulation.
Regulatory space, a concept used by Professor Leigh Hancher whose academic work this edited volume celebrates, is a metaphor that allows for a reconceptualisation of regulatory processes in EU economic law. It also calls for a critical reflection of the limits of law in regulating economic activity but also identifies public rulemaking and enforcement as just two means of governance.
This carefully selected selection of original contributions by leading experts in EU law, policy, and practice identifies the multiple regulatory spaces in areas such as competition policy, energy regulation, and State aid whereby organisational relationships, contestation, and negotiation among different public and private economic actors shape the contemporary EU regulatory landscape.
Contributors analyse the challenges of regulatory design and the fundamentals of regulatory reform, the role of regulatory agencies, the evolving regulatory space in emerging sectors, interactions of public and private authority in various policy domains, including digital platforms and energy regulation, and the impact of recent legal and political developments on the EU's regulatory landscape.
Combining theoretical insight with practical analysis, EU Law and Regulatory Spaces is an essential resource for academics, practitioners, and policymakers seeking to understand the future trajectory of regulation and governance within the EU.
Contents
EU Law and Regulatory Spaces - An Introduction, Panos Delimatsis and Giorgio Monti (Tilburg University, the Netherlands)
Part I: Cross-Cutting Themes on EU Law: Contested Regulatory Spaces
1. Regulatory Space and 21st Century Dynamics, Pierre Larouche (Montreal University, Canada)
2. Shared Regulatory Space to Advance the Internal Market: The Evolution of the EU Standardization Approach, Panagiotis Delimatsis (Tilburg University, the Netherlands)
3. The Dark Side of the Internal Market, Sacha Prechal (Court of Justice of the European Union, Luxembourg)
4. A Tale of Two Regulatory Regimes: Telecoms vs. Digital Platforms, Peter Alexiadis (King's College London, UK)
Part II: Regulatory Spaces in EU Competition and State Aid Law
5. Competition vs. Sector-Specific Regulation in the Digital Space: Old Wine in New Bottles?, Damien Geradin (Geradin and Partners, Belgium) and Daniel Mandrescu (Leiden University, the Netherlands)
6. FRAND Outside the Context of SEPs, Paul Lugard (Baker Botts, Belgium)
7. Mismanaging the Relationship Between Railway Regulation and EU Competition Law, Giorgio Monti (Tilburg University, the Netherlands)
8. Corporate Accountability in EU Competition Law, Wolf Sauter (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
9. A Next Generation of State Aid Splurge? Some Reflections on the Thin Line Between Spending EU Money and State Aid Control, Andrea Biondi (King's College London, UK)
10. The Principle of Non-Discrimination in State Aid Law, Jorge Piernas (University of Murcia, Spain)
Part III: Regulatory Spaces in Energy Law
11. The Evolving Roles of the State and Markets in the EU Energy Law and Policy, Kaisa Hutha (University of East Finland)
12. Energy Regulation: Differences with Energy Law and Energy Justice, Inigo Del Guayo (University of Almeria, Spain)
13. Regulating Anticipatory Investments in Electricity Grids: The Example of Hybrid Offshore Wind Grid Solutions, Catherine Banet (University of Oslo, Norway)
14. Reflections on the Independence of Energy Regulators in the EU Energy Regulatory Space, Francesco Salerno (Brussels Office of Gianni and Origoni, Belgium)
15. Navigating the Financial Landscape of the Dutch Green Energy Transition, Saskia Lavrijssen (Nijmegen School of Business and Management, the Netherlands) and Shanya Ruhela (Tilburg University, the Netherlands)
16. From Natural Gas to Hydrogen: Rethinking EU Infrastructure Access, Miguel Martinez Rodriguez and Malgorzata Sadowska (ACER, Slovenia)
