Energy Security and Competition Policy

This roundtable examined the links between competition policy and energy security, with a focus on natural gas. The discussion began by addressing the questions of the meaning and importance of energy security; and the determinants of energy security, particularly as they relate to competition policy. It continued in dealing with gas supply, transportation, and distribution, addressing five aspects that relate to different aspects

Related Documents

• Competition Issues in the Electricity Sector
• Restructuring Public Utilities for Competition
• Application of Competition Policy to the Electricity Sector

Competition and Regulation in Retail Banking

Competition can improve the functioning of the retail banking sector without harming prudential regulation. Customer mobility and choice are essential to stimulate banking competition; credit ratings and easy, low-cost transaction costs for switching are crucial for promoting customer mobility.

Competitive Restrictions in Legal Professions

Regulation of the legal professions, including self-regulation, typically involves many restrictions on entry and professional conduct. Certain restrictions may be a remedy to market failures and may also be based on distributional or paternalistic motives. But other restrictions can be based on rent-seeking and achieve cartel-like effects. The major policy challenge is to identify and remove the restrictions which are unnecessary or

Synthèses : Politique de la concurrence et concessions

Les pouvoirs publics ont longtemps fourni à leurs administrés des biens ou des services qui pouvaient, sous une certaine forme, l’être par le secteur privé. Ces dernières décennies, la tendance a cependant consisté à transférer ces fonctions et les actifs publics correspondants entre des mains privées. La méthode la plus courante et généralement privilégiée à cet effet est la privatisation ou la vente ou le transfert direct de la

Barrières à l'entrée - Table ronde sur la politique de la concurrence - OCDE

La notion de barrière à l'entrée est importante dans de nombreux domaines du droit et de la politique de la concurrence, mais la question de savoir ce qu'est exactement une barrière à l'entrée n'a jamais été résolue une fois pour toutes.

Anticompetitive practices affecting international trade - OECD Recommendation concerning co-operation between OECD countries

International co-operation between OECD countries on anticompetitive practices affecting international trade has been in operation for more than 40 years based on a series of Council Recommendations which have been elaborated and progressively refined by the Competition Committee.

Principes directeurs de l'OCDE pour la qualité et la performance de la réglementation

Japan - Regulatory reform monitoring review

This report is part of the monitoring of developments since the 1999 OECD Report on Regulatory Reform in Japan ("1999 Report"), with particular attention to the implementation of its recommendations.

Universal Service Obligations - Competition Policy Roundtables

Universal service obligations are common in many of the infrastructure sectors. The obligations are often cited as a justification for limiting entry of new providers because the new providers would cherry-pick the high profit customers who provide the basis for subsidisation of another group of customers. When obligations are beneficial, there are a number of policy traps that can be encountered. Obligations are often not

Le rôle de la politique de la concurrence dans la réforme de la réglementation aux Pays-Bas

Is competition policy sufficiently integrated into the general policy framework for regulation? Competition policy is central to regulatory reform, because (as Chapter 2 shows) its principles and analysis provide a benchmark for assessing the qua...