Europeanization unleashed and rebounding: assessing the modernization of EU cartel policy

McGowan, Lee

doi:10.1080/13501760500270646

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“…This new Regulation aimed at alleviating the Commission's workload, by reinforcing the role played by the national competition authorities (NCA) and courts, on the one hand, and ensuring uniform application of Community competition rules, on the other (McGowan, ).…”

Section: Forensic Analysis Of Stages In the Eu's Competition Policy Amentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This reform meant that the system of notification and authorization was completely abandoned and replaced by a directly applicable exception system. 29 This new Regulation aimed at alleviating the Commission's workload, by reinforcing the role played by the national competition authorities (NCA) and courts, on the one hand, and ensuring uniform application of Community competition rules, on the other (McGowan, 2005).…”

Section: Forensic Analysis Of Stages In the Eu's Competition Policy Amentioning

confidence: 99%

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The European Commission's Fight against Cartels (1962–2014): A Retrospective and Forensic Analysis

Ordóñez-de-Haro

Borrell

Jiménez

2018

J of Common Market Studies

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On the basis of information collected from all the published European Commission's decisions in cartel cases between 1962 and 2014, this paper identifies different stages in the supra‐nationalization of cartel policy at the European Union (EU) level. It analyzes major competition policy reforms, strategies and initiatives taken by the European Commission (EC), and its relationship and interaction with Member States’ resistance and other policy players’ positions, which offers a new in‐depth study on the history and political economy of a key pillar of EU integration. It also provides a forensic analysis of the sanctioned cartels at each stage. This study shows that the introduction of the leniency programme was a critical juncture that allowed cartel authorities to identify cartels more effectively and to provide evidence for sanctioning collusion much more easily than before. This success was a key determinant for deepening the EU integration in competition policy. The intended drivers and the paradoxically unexpected shifters of such growing integration in cartel policy enforcement at the EU are discussed.

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Section: Forensic Analysis Of Stages In the Eu's Competition Policy Amentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Forensic Analysis Of Stages In the Eu's Competition Policy Amentioning

confidence: 99%

The European Commission's Fight against Cartels (1962–2014): A Retrospective and Forensic Analysis

Ordóñez-de-Haro

Borrell

Jiménez

2018

J of Common Market Studies

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“…This form of state aid conforms to the EU's competitiveness and regional development policies by providing start-up assistance to new industries in key technologies that generate jobs and innovation in economic activity. It is designed to rule out the subsidisation of poorly competitive sunset industries with scarce public funds and ensure an even playing field within the single market (McGowan, 2006).…”

Section: State Aidmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Public Interest and the Economy in Europe in the Wake of the Financial Crisis

Donnelly

2011

Eur Polit Sci

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The financial crisis increased the importance of the member states at the expense of European Union (EU) rules on the single market and Economic and Monetary Union. The commission allowed exceptions that could become lasting if the economic downturn persists. At the same time, the EU has supported stronger financial market regulation, but not in corporate governance, where the member states retain reserved powers. The EU only gets and keeps institutions that the member states support.

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“…Most attention has gone to network sectors such as competition policy (Blauberger and Rittberger 2015;Kassim and Wright 2009;McGowan 2005;Thatcher 2011;Wilks 2005), telecommunications (Blauberger and Rittberger 2015;Thatcher 2005, 2008;Eberlein and Grande 2005;Kelemen and Tarrant 2011;Majone 2000;Mathieu 2015;Thatcher 2011;Thatcher and Coen 2008) and energy Thatcher 2005, 2008;Eberlein and Grande 2005;Eberlein and Newman 2008;Thatcher 2011;Thatcher and Coen 2008), at the expense of sectors of 'positive integration' like environment, social policy and food safety. As shown by Table 1 in the Online Appendix, no attention has been paid to the following (sub-) domains: international trade; taxation; education; agriculture and fishing; undertaking laws; state subsidies; foreign policy; foreign aid; migration; employment; and structural/regional funds.…”

Section: Ean Establishmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Here, we should stress the evidence against Commission dominance. Kassim and Wright (2009), firstly, reported striking restraint of the European Commission within the European Competition Network, which is seen by some as a clever move by the Commission to 'engineer ever greater centralization of competition decision-making' (McGowan 2005(McGowan : 1001. Other scholars, however, address the issue of control beyond the Commission, discussing how national interests control and restrict the capacities of EANs to push through regulatory harmonization Kelemen and Tarrant 2011).…”

Section: Ean Functioningmentioning

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Filling the gap in the European administrative space: the role of administrative networks in EU implementation and enforcement

Mastenbroek

Martinsen

2017

Journal of European Public Policy

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European administrative networks (EANs) are a key building block of the European Administrative Space (EAS). Crucially, they are to fill the gap between the EU's policy ambitions and its limited administrative capacities. Whereas ample research has been done on policy preparation networks, the role of implementing EANs has received less attention in the EAS literature. This article fills this gap by providing a systematic review of relevant insights in four adjacent literatures: EU governance; international relations; public administration; and EU compliance. Employing a systematic literature review, it reports divergent findings on EAN establishment, functioning and impact, as well as variant normative evaluations. These variant findings partly relate to a lack of comparative research, selective policy coverage and predominant focus on North-western states. We conclude by suggesting a number of lines for future research on these four important themes, arguing that the crucial question will be which impact these EANs have on the national implementation and enforcement of EU law.

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Europeanization unleashed and rebounding: assessing the modernization of EU cartel policy

Cited by 37 publications

References 13 publications

The European Commission's Fight against Cartels (1962–2014): A Retrospective and Forensic Analysis

The European Commission's Fight against Cartels (1962–2014): A Retrospective and Forensic Analysis

The Public Interest and the Economy in Europe in the Wake of the Financial Crisis

Filling the gap in the European administrative space: the role of administrative networks in EU implementation and enforcement

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