European Competition Authorities

[Updated June 2008]

	Competition Authorities	Documents & Consumer Information on Telecom & ICT issues	Other institutions
Austria	Federal Competition Authority - Federal Ministry of Economics and Labour of the Republic of Austria (BMWA)	Innovation and Technology issues
Belgium	Belgian Competition Service Belgium Competition Council	Liste des publications - Société de l’information Indicateurs T.I.C. auprès des ménages - utilisation du pc, Internet, e-commerce, e-government, type de connexion (2007; pdf)
Bulgaria	Commission for Protection of Competition		Communications Regulation Commission
Cyprus	Commission for the Protection of Competition (CPC)	Own initiative investigation relating to a possible abuse by the Cyprus Telecommunications Authority (hereinafter CYTA) of its dominant position in the telecommunication services market, in violation of section 6 of the Law as amended 2005 (pdf)
Czech Republic	Office for the Protection of the Competition	Press Releases: - 2004 Telecom repeatedly infringed the law - 2004 Mobile operators restricted competition
Denmark	Danish Competition Authority	Telecom operators are required to reduce their prices for access to masts used by mobile operators (from a council meeting on 26 April 2006)
Estonia	Estonian Competition Authority	Electronic Communications Act (it is not the latest version ) Methodology for cost accounting and cost allocation by telecommunications network operator
Finland	Finnish Competition Authority	Telecompetition - Towards a single Nordic market for telecommunication services? 2006 (pdf) Nordic competition authorities warn of over-regulation in telecom markets 2004 Competition concerns on broadband service market 2003	Market Court Ministry of Employment and Economy The Supreme Administrative Court
France	Conseil de la Concurrence Diréction Générale de la Concurrence et la Consommation et de la Répression des Fraudes
Germany	Bundeskartellamt Monopolkommission		Ministry of Economics and Technology Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) Monopolies Commission
Greece	Hellenic Competition Commission		Data Protection Authority Hellenic Telecommunication & Post Communication The Greek Ombudsman
Hungary	Hungarian Competition Office
Iceland	Icelandic Competition Authority	Towards a single Nordic market for telecommunication services? 2004 (pdf)
Ireland	Competition Authority	Market Study on Mobile Telecommunications (pdf)
Italy	Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato
Latvia	Competition Council
Lithuania	Competition Council
Luxembourg	Conseil de la Concurrence Rapporteur général de l’inspection de la concurrence	Des astreintes viennent appuyer les mesures conservatoires adoptées dans le secteur des télécommunications 2008
Malta	Consumer & Competition Division - Ministry for Competitiveness and Communications	Guides to selecting Mobile Telephony services and service provider	Malta Communication Authority (MCA)
Netherlands	Netherlands Competition Authority	Television/Internet/Telephony Files
Norway	Norwegian Competition Authority	Competition and Welfare - The Norwegian Experience 2006 (pdf) Telecompetition 2004 (pdf) Efficient and sustainable competition the e-com sector
Poland	Office for Competition and Consumer Protection	Consumer on the Internet: Spam Polish Telecommunication Sector and the activity of the Anti-monopoly Authority, Warsaw 2003 (pdf)	Office of Electronic Communications Econsumer
Portugal	Conselho da Concorrência Direcção Geral do Comércio e da Concorrência	Working Paper: The race for telecoms infrastructure investment with bypass: Can access regulation achieve the first best? (pdf) Cost and Demand Characteristics of Portuguese Telecom Sector (pdf) Public Policy Issues for the Portuguese Telecom and Cable TV sector (pdf) Recomendação nº 2/2005: The form and the places for the presentation of mobile telecommunications prices (pdf)
Romania	Romanian Competition Council
Slovakia	Antimonopoly Office of the Slovak Republic	Abuse of a dominant position in the telecommunication sector - Published in WuW - Wettbewerb und Wirtschaft / National Competition Report - 4. Quarter 2005
Slovenia	Competition Protection Office of Slovenia
Spain	Comisión Nacional de la Competencia (CNC) Organismos Autonómicos de Regulación	Informe Anual de la CMT 2006 Legislación española en TIC Derechos de los usuarios de telecomunicaciones y TIC	Organismo Regulador Sectorial: Comisión del Mercado de las Telecomunicaciones (CMT) Oficina de Atención al Usuario de Telecomunicaciones
Sweden	Swedish Competition Authority	Increased competition and diversity are good for the consumer 2005 Regulatory reform good for Swedish consumers 2005	Council for Competition Research The Swedish Consumer Agency (Konsumentverket)
Switzerland	Competition Commission		Price Surveillance Federal Office for Communications (OFCOM) Communication Commission (ComCom)
United Kingdom	Competition Commission Better Regulation Executive - Cabinet Office	Price control appeals: references to the CC under section 193 Communications Act 2003 International Broadband Market Comparisons Summary Report 2006 (pdf)

Candidate countries

	Competition Authorities	Documents & Consumer Information on Telecom & ICT issues	Other institutions
Croatia	Croatian Competition Agency	Regulation on Block Exemption Granted to Certain Categories of Technology Transfer Agreements (pdf)	Telecommunication Council
Republic of Macedonia (Former Yugoslav)	Commission for Protection of Competition	Memorandum of cooperation in the field of protection of competition on the market of electronic communications 2007 (pdf)	Agency for Electronic Communications
Turkey	Turkish Competition Authority