{"title":"Europeanization through Standardization: ICT and Telecommunications","authors":"M. Gamito","doi":"10.1093/YEL/YEY018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/YEL/YEY018","url":null,"abstract":"This paper analyses the global reach of European Union (EU) policies and rules using international standardization for telecommunications and information and Communications Technologies (ICT) as a case study. The nature of the telecoms and ICT sectors require interconnection and interoperability between netwotks, systems, and services. At the same time, interoperability and quality standards are conducive to market competition by enabling freedom of choice for users. On the other hand, telecoms and ICT technologies cannot be understood without the occurrence of network effects. In this light, the paper posits that regulatory and policy diffusion actually represent an externality of the EU Internal Market building process, complemented by a meaningful involvement of the EU in global standard-setting activities. While international standard-setting activities are largely dominated by non-state and private actors, the paper assesses how the EU manages regulatory and policy export through standardization.","PeriodicalId":41752,"journal":{"name":"Croatian Yearbook of European Law & Policy","volume":"49 1","pages":"395-423"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82691370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Upholding a Principled Approach to the Use of EU Administrative Activities Externally: What Role for the Court of Justice of the European Union?","authors":"Ilaria Vianello","doi":"10.1093/yel/yey007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/yel/yey007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41752,"journal":{"name":"Croatian Yearbook of European Law & Policy","volume":"42 1","pages":"551-568"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81433406","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Innovation in EU competition law : The resource-based view and disruption","authors":"F. Costa-Cabral","doi":"10.1093/YEL/YEY019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/YEL/YEY019","url":null,"abstract":"Innovation has so far been handled by competition law according to market structure, that is, by assuming that market power also allows undertakings to evade the competitive pressures that spur innovation. This structural approach has fitted innovation into a tried-and-tested analytical and normative framework. Its limits have nonetheless become apparent as competition law is increasingly hemmed in by a static outlook and is called on to apply no harm to innovation unrelated to market power. As such, this paper proposes complementing a structural approach with two advances from strategic management studies. The first advance is the ‘resource-based view’, which connects competitive advantage with firm heterogeneity. Since undertakings do not have the same capabilities, the exit of innovators from the market might not be compensated for by the entry of equally innovating undertakings even if barriers to entry are low. Harm to innovation is thus centred on assets granting ‘innovation capabilities’, such as intellectual property or pipeline products. Cases of abusive refusal to license and mergers of parallel research show that rival claims over these assets are to be resolved based on differences in those innovation capabilities. The second advance is the theory of disruptive innovation, which explains major changes in consumer preferences and production methods. Strategic management has established that an inefficient start is an integral part of disruption, allowing disruptors to be ignored until their productive efficiency increases enough to shift the market. This contrasts with the notion of competition on the merits allowing the exclusion of less efficient competitors. Competition law must therefore adapt to strategies which do not show an effect on market structure, notably the higher prices of market power, but which are aimed at preventing disruptive innovation from occurring.","PeriodicalId":41752,"journal":{"name":"Croatian Yearbook of European Law & Policy","volume":"20 1","pages":"305-343"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89048547","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Better Regulation Guidelines and the Regulatory Scrutiny Board as a ‘Support’ for Judicial Review: A Case Study of EU Consumer Law","authors":"E. V. Schagen","doi":"10.1093/YEL/YEY010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/YEL/YEY010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41752,"journal":{"name":"Croatian Yearbook of European Law & Policy","volume":"33 1","pages":"597-625"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78277269","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Who are the ‘gatekeepers’?: in continuation of the debate on direct applicability and direct effect of EU international agreements","authors":"N. Ghazaryan","doi":"10.1093/YEL/YEY003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/YEL/YEY003","url":null,"abstract":"The article revisits the debate on direct applicability and direct effect of EU international agreements by questioning the role of the so called gatekeepers. It considers the established role of the Court of Justice of the EU as the gatekeeper of the EU legal order through identifying the stages of gatekeeping and their implications. It further analyses the possibilities of sidelining the Court through various techniques, which include the agreement between the parties to the international agreement. A more controversial challenge to the Court’s position stems from a practice emerging from Council decisions concluding a number of international agreements. These decisions make a strong pronouncement on the exclusion of direct effect for the entire agreement. The status of such pronouncements is analysed with reference to CJEU’s jurisprudence as well as the relevant rules of international law.","PeriodicalId":41752,"journal":{"name":"Croatian Yearbook of European Law & Policy","volume":"223 1","pages":"27-74"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85932127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Soft Law in Environmental Matters and the Role of the European Courts: Too Much or Too Little of It?","authors":"M. Eliantonio","doi":"10.1093/YEL/YEY011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/YEL/YEY011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41752,"journal":{"name":"Croatian Yearbook of European Law & Policy","volume":"30 1","pages":"496-524"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85948881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Doing Too Little or Too Much? Private Law Before the European Court of Human Rights","authors":"Jan Zglinski","doi":"10.1093/YEL/YEY013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/YEL/YEY013","url":null,"abstract":"The question as to whether fundamental rights impose duties on private individuals is as much an old constitutional chestnut as it is a controversial current affair. Can a hotel owner deny hosting the member of a neo-Nazi party?1 Can a devout Christian baker refuse to make a cake for a same-sex wedding?2 Can a company dismiss a Muslim employee because she refuses to take her headscarf off at work?3 At the heart of these cases lies the issue whether private behaviour should be bound by fundamental rights, a problem legal doctrine calls horizontal effect. Courts across the globe have, in different ways and to different extents, recognised such an effect. They have thereby changed the rights and obligations private individuals hold towards each other. By the same token, they have changed private law as such. Private law no longer is an autonomous domain, insulated from external pressures. As its making and application are put under constitutional control, it has become, just like other legal fields, an area of ‘applied constitutional law’.4","PeriodicalId":41752,"journal":{"name":"Croatian Yearbook of European Law & Policy","volume":"91 1","pages":"98-129"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83912766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Soft Law Before the European Courts: Discovering a ‘common pattern’?","authors":"M. Eliantonio, Oana Stefan","doi":"10.1093/YEL/YEY017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/YEL/YEY017","url":null,"abstract":"Citing this paper Please note that where the full-text provided on King's Research Portal is the Author Accepted Manuscript or Post-Print version this may differ from the final Published version. If citing, it is advised that you check and use the publisher's definitive version for pagination, volume/issue, and date of publication details. And where the final published version is provided on the Research Portal, if citing you are again advised to check the publisher's website for any subsequent corrections.","PeriodicalId":41752,"journal":{"name":"Croatian Yearbook of European Law & Policy","volume":"13 1","pages":"457-469"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87840537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Jurisdiction, Rule of Law, and Unity of EU Law in Rosneft","authors":"M. Kuisma","doi":"10.1093/YEL/YEY016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/YEL/YEY016","url":null,"abstract":"This article engages in a critical reading of the treatment of issues concerning the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice (the Court), the rule of law, and the principle of unity of EU law in the Rosneft ruling of March 2017, and offers a contemplation of the nature of the Court's jurisdiction and of its role in the EU legal order. In Rosneft, the Court engaged in a judicial correction of the scheme of Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) remedies in the Treaties. In light of previous developments in case law, the finding of jurisdiction to hear preliminary rulings on the validity of CFSP acts in Rosneft was doctrinally unsurprising. That being said, the justifications offered for that finding in the ruling slightly mistreat both the Treaty text and the case law upon which they build. The reading given to Rosneft in this article suggests that the outcome of the jurisdictional question in the case is primarily based on considerations flowing from the principle of unity of EU law and the Foto-Frost maxim. This notwithstanding, the Court's reasoning rested centrally on arguments relying on the principle of the rule of law, thus making the justifications seem like a veneer rarher than a transparent representation of the logic underlying the ruling. It is suggested that in light of the interests at play, a more open emphasis of all relevant considerations in the ruling would have been both possible and preferable. After sketching an alternative reasoning for the rationale of Rosneft and discussing the risk of future expansion of Article 267 TFEU jurisdiction within the field of CFSP, the article concludes by drawing conclusions on the implications of the chosen manner of justification for the Court itself, and on the importance of the Court's self-depiction in Rosneft for the broader scheme of the Treaties.","PeriodicalId":41752,"journal":{"name":"Croatian Yearbook of European Law & Policy","volume":"41 1","pages":"3-26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77965146","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Creeping Juridification of the Code of Conduct for Business Taxation: How EU Codes of Conduct Become Hard Law","authors":"Anna Beckers","doi":"10.1093/YEL/YEY006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/YEL/YEY006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41752,"journal":{"name":"Croatian Yearbook of European Law & Policy","volume":"56 1","pages":"569-596"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78075931","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}