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The antitrust legal regulation of the gas industry in the European Union

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Τίτλος: The antitrust legal regulation of the gas industry in the European Union
Συγγραφείς: Aleksandr Konstantinovich Volkov
Πηγή: RUDN Journal of Law, Vol 0, Iss 2, Pp 81-104 (2016)
Στοιχεία εκδότη: Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University), 2016.
Έτος έκδοσης: 2016
Συλλογή: LCC:Law
Θεματικοί όροι: право ЕС, антимонопольное право, энергетическое право, газовая промышленность, либерализация правового регулирования, разделение предприятий по видам деятельности, обеспечение доступа к сети, необходимая инфраструктура, Law
Περιγραφή: In the article, the author focuses primarily on the general rules of EU antimonopoly regulation, inter alia: the dominant position, the anti-competitive agreements and the State assistance. The author also specifies of special features of the regulation, as well as its practical regulation. In the second part of the article, the researcher analyses the specific antitrust norms, applicable to gas industry in the sectors of gas transport, distribution, storage and commerce. The author points that today the antitrust law became the basic instrument of the gas industry development. The application of the common rules became habitual and gets the gradual character. At the same time, the doubts on the necessity of the antitrust law existence still exist. The application of the specific antitrust norms give rise to more doubts. Possibly because of the lack of the practice of the realization of the EU legislation, may be it is too early to make the conclusions about the effectiveness of the antitrust legal regulation. Already, there are propositions of the elaboration of the new directives. However, while implementing future reforms concurrence should not be achieved through the establishment of the new barriers on the market. The measures like unbundling, the regulatory access to the infrastructure themselves present the restrictions of the freedom of the entrepreneurship. Consequently, more actual is not the adoption of the new directives but the deregulation. The diminution of the States interference will allow to retain the incitements for the monopolist and to eliminate the barriers of the entrance on the market. The author comes to the conclusion that if the adoption of the new acts is inevitable for the legislator, the institutions should, first of all, proportion the goals and measures of their achievement and, secondly, secure the balance between the importance of the concurrence developpement and the energy efficiency, keeping in mind the deficit of this resource.
Τύπος εγγράφου: article
Περιγραφή αρχείου: electronic resource
Γλώσσα: English
Russian
ISSN: 2313-2337
2408-9001
Relation: http://journals.rudn.ru/law/article/view/14796; https://doaj.org/toc/2313-2337; https://doaj.org/toc/2408-9001
Σύνδεσμος πρόσβασης: https://doaj.org/article/1a7df2a7433e4b83ba5c109d75ec5f1e
Αριθμός Καταχώρησης: edsdoj.1a7df2a7433e4b83ba5c109d75ec5f1e
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