10 jan 2008 11:20

Nya EU-direktiven talar emot Telia-separation enligt Konkurrensverket

Konkurrensverket anser att den svenska marknaden inte uppfyller de nya EU-direktivens villkor för att genomföra en funktionell separation av TeliaSoneras kopparbaserade accessnät. Det skriver myndigheten i sin rapport Konkurrensen i Sverige 2007, som presenterades i går.

Sin ståndpunkt baserar Konkurrensverket på följande formulering i de nya EU-direktiven:

“‐‐‐ When a national regulatory authority intends to impose an obligation for functional separation, it shall submit a request to the Commission that includes.
(a) evidence that the imposition of appropriate obligations amongst those identified in Articles 9‐13 to achieve effective competition following a co‐ordinated analysis of the relevant markets in accordance with the market analysis procedure set out in Article 16 of Directive 2002/21/EC (Framework Directive) has failed and would fail on a persistent basis to achieve effective competition and that there are important and persisting competition problems/market failures identified in several of these product markets.
(b) an analysis of the expected impact on the regulatory authority, on the undertaking, and on its incentives to invest in its network, and on other stakeholders including in particular the expected impact on infrastructure competition and any potential entailing effects on consumers; ‐‐‐“

En länk till rapporten finns under rubriken Nypublicerade dokument och domar längre ner i nyhetsbrevet.