Competition compliance: limits to competition policy harmonisation in EU enlargement

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Competition compliance: limits to competition policy harmonisation in EU enlargement

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Lorentzen, Jochen (Department of Economics, Copenhagen Business School)
Møllgaard, Peter (Department of Economics, Copenhagen Business School)

Abstract

The paper analyses the extent of and the reasons behind limits to competition policy

harmonisation in EU enlargement. Our focus is on vertical restraints. First, we

compare the relevant legal regimes towards vertical agreements in the EU and in

Eastern Europe. We then describe competition policy practice in all ten EU candidate

countries and point out differences both between East and West and among the

candidates. Finally, we examine a large database of inter-firm agreements in Eastern

Europe’s car industry and use insights from case studies of subcontracting to highlight

instances of non-conformity between (1) East European competition law and practice

and (2) EU rules and East European competition law enforcement. The conclusion

recommends how to improve competition policy practice, and thus compliance, postenlargement.

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Paper provided by Copenhagen Business School, Department of Economics in its series Working Papers with number 11-2002.

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Date of creation: 01 Sep 2002
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

NEP-ALL-2003-04-13 (All new papers)
NEP-EEC-2003-04-13 (European Economics)
NEP-LAW-2003-04-13 (Law & Economics)

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