Independent Sector Regulators and their Relationship with Competition Authorities

Ennis, Sean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6796-5788 (2019) Independent Sector Regulators and their Relationship with Competition Authorities. OECD, Paris.

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Abstract

Independent sector regulators and competition authorities share many objectives and common interests, particularly because they both can play key roles in promoting effective and beneficial competition. In this note, the criteria and rationale for the independence of sector regulators and competition authorities are explained, along with a suggestion that independence may sometimes be especially critical for institutions with broad economic oversight and quasi-judicial responsibilities or, alternately, for institutions most subject to influence of special interests. The note suggests that sector regulators may benefit, in times of high technological change and uncertainty, from principle-based laws that allow regulators the flexibility to adjust their precise rules in light of evolving circumstances. Moreover, the note suggests that in some respects, the sectors subject to independent regulation may usefully include other sectors beyond those most traditionally associated with independent regulation. Ultimately, ensuring consistency and convergence between sector regulator and competition authority objectives and actions is important; ironically, independence can make ensuring such consistency through direct co-operation a challenge. Based on international experience, multiple mechanisms exist for achieving or encouraging such consistency; some combination of these merits consideration by designers of competition policy regimes.

Item Type:	Book
Uncontrolled Keywords:	independent regulator,competition authority,regulation,competition policy
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Norwich Business School
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Responsible Business Regulation Group Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Centre for Competition Policy
Related URLs:	https://one.oecd.org/document/DAF/COMP/W...
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	03 Apr 2020 00:52
Last Modified:	24 May 2023 05:42
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/74705
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