This document presents the key developments and results of REFIT, the Regulatory Fitness and Performance programme. It also contains detailed information on the first 22 REFIT Platform opinions and the way in which the Commission intends to follow up on these.

Abstract: Der Wirtschaftssektor der Telekommunikation weist zwei Besonderheiten auf: Er ist von erheblicher gesamtwirtschaftlicher Bedeutung und die dort vorzufindenden Regelwerke gehen nahezu ausschließlich auf europarechtliche Vorgaben zurück. Als Querschnittsmaterie zwischen Kartell- und...

For several decades now a debate has raged about policy-making by litigation. Spurred by the way in which tobacco, environmental, and other litigation has functioned as an alternative form of regulation, the debate asks whether policy-making or regulation by litigation is more or less socially...

This article analyses the roles of the European Parliament and the US Congress in addressing regulatory interdependencies arising in the EU-US strategic partnership. It examines their international actorness as a potential remedy for the problems of democratic participation, executive dominance,...