Competition Rules And The Accession Process
Damien Geradin - Professor of Law at the University of Liège and Director of the Global Competion Centre
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The Obligations Imposed to Candidate Countries in the Competition Field. The Mechanisms of Accompaniment and Evaluation in the Competition Law Field.
Competition Rules And The Accession Process
Among the partner countries, three States (Cyprus, Malta, and Turkey) are engaged in the accession process to the European Union. Two of them will become Members of the European Union on May 1, 2004. This chapter analyses the obligations imposed on these candidate countries in the context of their Association Agreement and the accession process. These obligations are much stronger than the obligations imposed on non-candidate countries and guarantee a relatively high level of effectiveness of the domestic competition regimes of the candidate countries. Cyprus, Malta, and Turkey are linked with the EC through first generation Association Agreements signed during the 1960s and the 1970s. The objective of the agreements was to create a Customs Union between these countries and the EC. 84 Originally, these ag...
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