Updated: Jan. 30, 2012 (Initial publication: Jan. 30, 2012)

Publication of The Journal of Regulation

Publication

The Journal of Regulation<i/> n°8, 2011

Translated summaries

The translated summaries are done by the Editors and not by the Authors.


ENGLISH

The main theme of the eighth issue of The Journal of Regulation is that of Neutrality in systems of economic regulation in accordance with the conference that the Journal organized around this issue. This question is essential for a number of reasons: on one hand, companies sometimes demand that regulation be ‘neutral’ in the impact it has on their economic activities. On the other hand, States have other reasons for believing that regulation palliates market failure by using price-fixing to restore neutrality in certain sectors of the economy that are incapable of producing a fair market price. Still others believe that Regulation is not neutral because it intervenes against the neutrality of the market by imposing access to common goods, social policy concerns, etc.


FRENCH

Le principal thème du 8° numéro du Journal of Regulation est la question de la neutralité dans les systèmes de régulation économique, telle qu’elle avait été examinée dans le colloque annuel du Journal. Cette question est essentielle pour un certains nombres de raisons. D’une part, les entreprises exigent parfois que les régulation soient "neutres" dans les activités économiques des entreprises. D’autre part, les Etats peuvent avoir d’autres raisons d’adopter des régulations que de palier des défaillances de marchés, lesquelles sont incapables de produire des prix. Les Etats restaurent alors par leurs interventions une neutralité que les marchés ne peuvent pas techniquement engendrer. D’autres croient encore que la Régulation n’est pas neutre parce qu’elle intervient précisément contre la neutralité du marché, en imposant l’accès pour tous à des biens communs, décisions politiques adoptées pour des considérations de politique sociale.



ITALIAN

Il tema principale di questo ottavo numero de The Journal of Regulation è la Neutralità nei sistemi di regolazione economica in linea con la conferenza organizzata dalla rivista relativamente a tale tema. Tale tema riveste un’importanza fondamentale per diverse ragioni: da un lato, le società talvolta richiesto che tale regolazione sia neutrale rispetto all’impatto provocato sulle loro attività economiche. Inoltre, gli Stati hanno diverse ragioni per considerare che la regolazione riduca il rischio di disfunzioni del mercato usando il potere di fissazione del prezzo garantendo così la neutralità che certi settori sono incapaci di raggiungere in quanto incapaci di stabilire un prezzo equo di mercato. Infine, altri ritengono che la Regolazione non sia neutrale in quanto interviene sulla neutralità del mercato ed impone l’accesso ai beni comuni, obiettivi di politica sociale, ecc.



ESPAGNOL

El tema principal del 8º volumen del Journal of Regulation es a cuestión de la neutralidad en los sistemas de regulación económica, tal como ha sido examinada en coloquio anual del Journal. Esta cuestión es esencial por varias razones. De una parte, las empresas a veces exigen que las regulaciones sean “neutras” en las actividades económicas de las empresas. Por otra parte, los Estados pueden tener otras razones para adoptar regulaciones , a parte de lidiar con los fallos de los mercados, los cuales son incapaces de producir precios. Los Estados restauran, a través de sus intervenciones, una neutralidad que los mercados no pueden engendrar. Algunos siguen pensando que la Regulación no es neutra porque interviene precisamente en contra de la neutralidad del mercado, al imponer el acceso universal a bienes comunes, decisiones políticas adoptadas por consideraciones de política social.



ARABIC

الموضوع الرّئيسي للطبعة الثامنة لمجلة التنظيم هو الحياد في النّواضم الاقتصادية وفقا للمؤتمر أللذي انتظم حول هذه القضية. هذا السّؤال ضروري لأسباب متعدّدة : أوّلا، الشّركات تطلب في بعض الأحيان "محايدة" اللّوائح في تأثير على أنشطتها الاقتصادية. من ناحية أخرى، فإن الدول الأخرى يعتقدون أن التّنظيم يخفّف من فشل السوق بمساعدة استخدام التسعير من أجل استعادة الحياد في القطاعات الاقتصاد غير القادرة على إنتاج سعر السوق العادل. لا يزال البعض يعتقد أن التنظيم ليس محايدا لأنّه يأتي ضدّ الحياد السوق عن طريق اشتراط الحصول على الملكية المشتركة، والمخاوف من السياسة الاجتماعية، الخ


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Other translations forthcoming.

TABLE OF CONTENTS


I: THEMATIC ISSUE : NEUTRALITY IN SYSTEMS OF ECONOMIC REGULATION (PART ONE)*

  • I-2.1 What does it mean to be neutral? Socrates in the land of Regulators
    Jean-Michel Roy
  • I-2.2 Regulation and Neutrality: The Case of Financial Markets Michel Prada
  • I-2.3 Neutralization in economically regulated industries using procedural law techniques
    Thierry Fossier
  • I-2.4 The principle of the neutrality of standards (the example of accounting standards)
    Jérôme Haas
  • I-2.5 Neutralization using impact surveys before the adoption of Acts and Regulation
    Philippe Poiget


II: THEMATIC REPORTS

  • II-2.14 The Court of Appeals of Paris approved the French telecommunications regulator’s decision to oblige a fiber optic network operator to obey the conditions set out by the civil engineering firm that owns the furrows the fiber passes through

  • II-4.8 European and North American authorities notify the ICANN, a private association in charge of the self-regulation of Internet domain names, that it must adopt more transparent “governance” and adopt public structures’ recommendations

  • II-5.8 The French Electricity Regulator can legitimately use its powers to organize Diffuse Effacement, but oversteps its mandate (ultra vires) when it mandates that intermediaries remunerate the energy supplier

  • II-6.22 The American Department of Justice informed Nasdaq and ICE that it rejected their IPO on NYSE Euronext because of its anticompetitive effects, and the two companies therefore abandoned their plan. NYSE Euronext and Deutsche Börse have decided to merge.

  • II-8.5 The French Online Gambling Regulator (ARJEL) approved Pokerstars’Home Games’, after having requested that this type of game be taken offline

  • II-8.6 The ARJEL’s Disciplinary Commission decided it was not competent to sanction an operator even though the President of the ARJEL had requested such sanctions. The President of the ARJEL appealed the decision


III: BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REPORTS

  • III-1.8 Libéralisation et services publics : économie postale [Liberalization and Public Services: Postal Economics] by François Boldron, Claire Borsenberger, Denis Joram, Sébastien Lecou, and Bernard Roy

  • III-3.12 Vers quelle régulation de l’audit faut-il aller ? (How Should the Audit Be Regulated?)

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* The second part of this thematic issue will be published in the n°10 of The Journal of Regulation

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