TY - CHAP

T1 - Applying European Competition Law to International Organisations – The Case of OPEC

T2 - The Case of OPEC

AU - Terhechte, Jörg

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2010, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.

PY - 2010

Y1 - 2010

N2 - International economic law seeks to provide rules for international business activities. Nowadays, these activities have to be seen in the light of globalization and the emerging integration of product and service markets all around the world. Questions concerning International economic law are often delicate to handle, given the multiplicity of domestic and international rules that are potentially applicable to concrete cases. The difficulty of identifying appropriate rules and the relation of different legal regimes is, of course, a result of globalization. Complex cases often involve rules of International law (e.g. WTO provisions), rules of regional integration agreements such as NAFTA or MERCOSUR and domestic legislation. These different legal regimes can potentially collide because a guiding meta system is lacking at the moment. Is for example the supranational European competition law applicable to international organizations which might embody a cartel (e.g. to the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries – OPEC)? Just this question demonstrates the problems one could have if different legal regimes collided.

AB - International economic law seeks to provide rules for international business activities. Nowadays, these activities have to be seen in the light of globalization and the emerging integration of product and service markets all around the world. Questions concerning International economic law are often delicate to handle, given the multiplicity of domestic and international rules that are potentially applicable to concrete cases. The difficulty of identifying appropriate rules and the relation of different legal regimes is, of course, a result of globalization. Complex cases often involve rules of International law (e.g. WTO provisions), rules of regional integration agreements such as NAFTA or MERCOSUR and domestic legislation. These different legal regimes can potentially collide because a guiding meta system is lacking at the moment. Is for example the supranational European competition law applicable to international organizations which might embody a cartel (e.g. to the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries – OPEC)? Just this question demonstrates the problems one could have if different legal regimes collided.

KW - Law

KW - Member State

KW - Common Market

KW - Private Enforcement

KW - European Competition

KW - Sovereign Immunity

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UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/11db397a-f6a6-3fd9-b92d-61580a75b035/

U2 - 10.1007/978-3-540-78883-6_8

DO - 10.1007/978-3-540-78883-6_8

M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies

SN - 978-3-540-78882-9

T3 - European Yearbook of International Economic Law

SP - 179

EP - 204

BT - European Yearbook of International Economic Law

A2 - Hermann, Christoph

A2 - Terhechte, Jörg Philipp

PB - Springer

CY - Berlin/Heidelberg/New York

ER -