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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2010
Schriftenreihe/Nr.: 
ESRI Working Paper No. 353
Verlag: 
The Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), Dublin
Zusammenfassung: 
On 21 December 2009 the Irish High Court found that a regulatory proposal, the Variation, by the four Dublin local authorities, is a breach of national competition law. The Variation allows a single operator to collect household waste, irrespective of whether the operator is selected by competitive tender or the local authority reserves the collection function to itself. The judgment has important, possibly groundbreaking, implications. Local government is held to be an undertaking and hence its decisions susceptible to review and prohibition under national competition rules. The burden of the paper is, however, that the local authorities are not undertakings for the purposes of competition law when they made the Variation. Even if the local authorities were undertakings in this regard, competitive tendering for selecting a single operator to collect household waste collection is neither an anti-competitive agreement nor an abuse of a dominant position. If, however, the High Court judgment is affirmed by the Supreme Court on appeal, then the wider implications of the judgment will need to be explored.
Schlagwörter: 
competition policy
regulation
geographic market definition
abuse of dominance
collective dominance
household waste collection
definition of an undertaking
anticompetitive agreement
Article 86
Competition Act 2002
Waste Management Acts
1996-2007
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