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This book analyses the rules applicable to electronic communications networks and services within the European Union. Electronic communications encompass all forms of electronic transmission of information, including telecommunications, broadcasting, and the Internet. During the last ten years they have developed substantially to become one of the most important economic sectors in the European Union. The main focus of the book is on the rules concerning market organisation, specifically regulation and competition law. These rules were amended significantly in 2002 with the adoption of the New Regulatory Framework and will develop further in 2003 with the adoption of important implementation measures and substantial changes in the rules relating to competition law. The authors present, in clear and exhaustive terms, what the law of electronic communications in European markets will be in the next ten years. It will be of benefit to those working in this economic sector, as well as to those interested in the model established for all industries with similar features.

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...It will surely become one of the top reference books on EU electronic communications law...Extremley clear and comprehensive...Will be of interest for telecom practitioners (legal counsel, lawyers, cival servants, academics).

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Paul Nihoul is a Professor of Law at the University of Louvain, Belgium, where he holds the Jean Monnet Chair of Law on the European Information Society and is the Director of the Consumer Law Centre. He is also a Professor of Law at the University of Groningen, Netherlands. Previously, he was an Attorney and Counsellor with the law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen and Hamilton in New York. He has also been a referendaire at the European Court of Justice, where he clerked for Justices Joliet and Murray. He is the author of several books and numerous articles on telecommunications with both a European and international perspective. Peter Rodford is Head of the European Commission unit responsible for compliance with EU electronic communications regulation. He has been a member of the Commission's staff since 1974, and has worked in the Legal Service, the External Affairs Directorate General, and as a member of the cabinet of Commissioner Peter M. Schmidhuber, where he was responsible for telecoms liberalisation and external affairs. He became Deputy Head of the compliance unit in 1996, and Head in 1999.

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