According to the EU Directive 2003/98 public sector bodies can currently charge the cost of collection, production, reproduction and dissemination, together with a reasonable return on investment. If the upper limit for charging was lowered to the marginal costs of reproduction and dissemination...

As part of the project to establish a Digital Single Market the European Commission has launched a ‘Free Flow of Data' initiative. This initiative is meant to enhance the growth potential of the emerging data economy, which is characterised by the digitisation of production (smart factories)...

The regulatory breakthrough of competition law: definitions and worries / Mariateresa Maggiolino -- Anti-anti regulation: the supplanting of industry regulators with competition agencies and how antitrust suffers as a result / Adi Ayal -- (Re-)joining the regulatory fold : problem-solving...

The efficiency approach, as advocated by the Chicago School in particular, only provides a very narrow approach to competition law analysis that relies on the preferences of consumers. This approach remains especially insufficient for the regulation of firms that provide citizens with...