Over the past ten years several EU Member States decided to integrate their competition authorities with their consumer …, independence, consumer participation and accountability. This analysis is conducted against the backdrop of EU law and policy … examining the impact of EU law and policy on Member States' choices for designing institutions …

Enforcement of competition law affects consumers' economic interests, as part of the public interests EU competition … be guided by the public interests inherent in EU competition law …

EU competition law is enforced parallel by the EU Commission and 28 national competition authorities (NCAs) in a multi …-level governance system composed of EU and national procedural laws. Regulation 1/2003 established the European Competition Network … enforcement of EU competition law from the perspective of political and judicial accountability. The chapter focuses on the …

becoming generators of soft law that may harden into national, EU or international law, the importance of legitimacy in agenda … the administrative procedures of the Member States the NCAs apply when they enforce EU competition rules. This … dominated by the EU Commission. This paper will examine the role of the Commission in initiating harmonization of national …

(accession) criteria of the EU. This chapter shows how competition law in Europe has developed as a quasi …’ choice. Crucially, this fundamental role of competition law has been transplanted into the EU’s Member States as a key and … indispensable component of EU membership and economic governance. However, as national policies globally shifted towards more …

, the question of priority setting had limited relevance in the enforcement of EU competition law for many years. Under the … regime, which enabled the Commission and national competition authorities to set their priorities, there are few EU law … procedural and substantive priority setting rules and practices guiding the competition authorities of the 27 EU Member States …