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Updated: Sept. 10, 2012 (Initial publication: April 16, 2012)

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Gas and electricity suppliers increase their prices, challenging the Belgian Government, which had frozen rates

Updated: Sept. 3, 2012 (Initial publication: Aug. 28, 2012)

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On 21 August 2012, the French Prime Minister asked to relevant Ministers to reflect on the merger of the telecoms regulator and the media regulator.

It was a time where it was easy to distinguish the container(telecommunications) and the content (transported data, called "media"). Has responded to it, the institutional duality in France of two regulators, the « Autorité de régulation des communications électroniques et des Postes » - (ARCEP- the French telecommunications and postal regulator) and the « Conseil Supérieur de l’audiovisuel » (CSA -French audiovisual regulatory) for the regulation of the media. To the movement of technological convergence, we symmetrically consider to merge the two institutions, especially because the digital television makes it possible to give pictures from the phone and the the telephone operators have large media activities. This logic so mechanical, that articulates content and container, as in the United Kingdom, underestimates the dimension of public freedoms and culture, strength in the institution of the « Conseil Supérieur de l’audiovisuel » (CSA -French audiovisual regulatory) and further behind in the « Autorité de régulation des communications électroniques et des Postes » - (ARCEP- the French telecommunications and postal regulator) which presents itself as a economic regulator. This shows that the regulation is not only a technical matter.

Updated: Aug. 28, 2012 (Initial publication: Aug. 27, 2012)

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On August 18, 2012, the House of Commons of the United Kingdom published a report about Libor, alleging that the Bank of England and the Financial Services Authority (FSA) their lack of diligences.

This is the drama of the summer and the case of the Mistigri: in what game drag one that will drop the player? Indeed, it pretends to discover that the purely declarative Libor system works by the good of those who declare, namely the banks. If one day a child said that the King is naked... This day was June 28, 2012, when the Financial Services Authority condemned the Barclays for manipulation of course. Since then, is the head, the bulk of support as the other? Thus, the FSA condemns. Well takes it, since the Government asked him to consider a reform of the Libor. On 10 August, the FSA makes first conclusions, to an increase in the powers of the FSA. But the English Parliament responded on 18 August, stating that if the FSA had a little more control this before, nothing would have occurred. Oh, what beautiful summer...

Updated: Aug. 23, 2012 (Initial publication: Aug. 30, 2012)

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Release Work : Harrington, Joseph E., and Katsoulacos, Yannis (eds), Recent Advances in the Analysis of Competition Policy and Regulation

Complete reference : Joseph E. Harrington, Joseph E., and Katsoulacos, Yannis (eds), Recent Advances in the Analysis of Competition Policy and Regulation, Elgar Publishing, United Kingdom, 2012, 400 p.

Updated: Aug. 13, 2012 (Initial publication: Aug. 22, 2012)

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Release Work : BIERMANN and PATTBERG (eds), Global Environmental Governance reconsidered

Updated: Aug. 1, 2012 (Initial publication: Aug. 20, 2012)

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Le 30 juillet 2012, le Régulateur français des activités ferroviaires (ARAF) a lancé une consultation publique sur la fourniture du courant de traction sur le réseau ferré national, dans le cadre d'un réglement de différend

Le Régulateur français des activités ferroviaire lance une consultation publique dans le cadre d'un règlement des différends. Cela est justifié à double titre : pour que le régulateur soit informé le mieux possible des données du contentieux auquel il doit apporter une solution particulier ; pour que les effets objectifs et généraux de sa décision particulière soient pertinents, ce qui justifie ex ante que l'ensemble du secteur soit consulté comme le serait pour l'adoption d'un texte. A la fois, la consultation devient une mesure d'instruction et le jugement du régulateur est pleinement reconnu comme une mesure ex ante pour le secteur tout entier.

Updated: June 4, 2012 (Initial publication: May 29, 2012)

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Spanish tax services included payment of taxes one of the approval conditions of the operators of online games.

In Spain, the liberalization and legalizalisation of online games, provided by the Act for January 2012, was postponed in June 2012. The licensing by the regulator is in preparation. These licenses may relate to all kinds of games including sports betting and casino games, excluding slot machines. But the Spanish tax services informed that an implied condition of approval of an operator candidate for obtaining a licence existed: payment of taxes due in Spain. However, many companies, whose headquarters is located in another country, have high arrears of taxes calculated by the administration. It can be noticed that the fiscal interests of the States is a key element in the regulation of the games, that can interfere with the mechanism, which appears however distinct from the approval by the regulator.

Updated: June 4, 2012 (Initial publication: May 22, 2012)

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The Gambia telecommunications regulatory authority prescribed as mandatory the identification of subscribers to the mobile phone. The deadline for the declaration expires June 15, 2012.

The Gambia has 1.7 million inhabitants and 4 mobile operators. It was common that people use prepaid cards purchased on the street, without revealing their identity. In January 2012, the telecommunications regulatory authority, the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA) enacted the obligation to identify the holder of a mobile phone; this declaration must be made before June 15, 2015. It is not possible since January to buy prepaid SIM cards and from June, if the identification is not made, the line will be suspended. Associations are protesting, seeing in this device a mechanism for monitoring of the population.

Updated: June 1, 2012 (Initial publication: May 24, 2012)

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The French telecommunications regulator launches on May 16, 2012, a consultation on its report to the Parliament on the neutrality of the Net. It will be closed June 22, 2012.

The French regulator of telecommunications (The French regulatory authority of telecommunications and Posts - ARCEP) has developed a draft report to the Parliament and the French Government on the issue of Internet neutrality. By providing it to everyone on its site on May 16, 2012, the regulator opens a public consultation, which will be closed on June 22, 2012. The regulator said that the Internet is a "collective good of general interest" and that the increase in its use requires very significant investments. It is in this context that the question of the neutrality of the Internet must be discussed.

Updated: May 29, 2012 (Initial publication: May 21, 2012)

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The North American Senate approves the appointment by the President of the United States of two new members of the US Federal Bank, appointments that it blocked so far.

The Executive Board of Governors of the North America Federal Bank had only four governors on seven seats established. But two people, Jerome Powell (Banker), and Jeremy Stein (Economist) appointed by the President of the United States Barak Obama, could not take their function, because their appointment in December 2011, was not approved by the Senate. It was enough that two parties will disagree with each other, while Mr. Powell is Republican and Mr. Stein is democratic, to paralyse the whole because of the willingness of opposition of the Republican Senator David Vitter. The JP Morgan case led the two parties to an arrangement and the appointments were approved by the Senate on May 18, 2012.
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