豁免的延伸:欧盟法律和政策的系统性转变

An extension of exemptions:systemic shifts in European Union law and policies

普遍利益服务规则允许欧盟内部市场法存在例外情况。这些例外情况真的处于自由竞争的范围内吗?如今这个问题似乎与影响公共服务市场的直接政治考虑风险无关。这种趋势可能会导致国家的立法或行政措施与欧盟一体化的最初目标精神背道而驰。欧盟的实体法和程序法似乎并未对此类倾向设置不可避免的障碍。在欧盟普遍利益服务监管框架的语境下,我们的研究聚焦于欧盟法院案件数据库的分析结果,该数据库凸显了公共部门政策对欧盟内部市场和竞争规则运作的挑战和威胁。

Rules on services of general interest allow exceptions to the internal market law of the European Union.Do these exceptions really remain within the limits of free competition?Nowadays,this question seems not to be independent from the risk of direct political considerations influencing the market of public services.This tendency may result in national legislative or administrative measures that may run counter to the spirit of the origina!objectives of European Union integration.European Union substantive and procedural law does not seem to raise unavoidable obstacles to such efforts.In the context of the European Union regulatory framework for services of general interest,our research focuses on the results of an analysis of a database of European Union court cases that highlights the challenges and threats of recent national instruments of public sector orga-nization to the operation of the European Union internal market and competition rules.