EU Electronic Communications Law: Competition and Regulation in the European Telecommunications Market »

Paul Nihoul is a Professor of Law at the University of Louvain, Belgium, where he holds the Jean Monnet Chair of Law on the European Information Society and is the Director of the Consumer Law Centre. He is also a Professor of Law at the University of Groningen, Netherlands. Previously, he was an Attorney and Counsellor with the law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen and Hamilton in New York. He has also been a referendaire at the European Court of Justice, where he clerked for Justices Joliet and Murray. He is the author of several books and numerous articles on telecommunications with both a European and international perspective. Peter Rodford is Head of the European Commission unit responsible for compliance with EU electronic communications regulation. He has been a member of the Commission's staff since 1974, and has worked in the Legal Service, the External Affairs Directorate General, and as a member of the cabinet of Commissioner Peter M. Schmidhuber, where he was responsible for telecoms liberalisation and external affairs. He became Deputy Head of the compliance unit in 1996, and Head in 1999.

This book analyzes the rules applicable to electronic communications networks and services within the European Union. Electronic communications encompass all forms of electronic transmission of information, including telecommunications, broadcasting, and the Internet. The focus is on the rules concerning market organization, specifically regulation and competition law.