Access regulation for telecoms network operators with significant market power (Directive)

In future, national regulatory authorities will impose access obligations principally in respect of "civil engineering assets", thus starting at the earliest possible stage in the value chain. In ordoliberal terms, the regulatory preferential treatment given to "very high capacity networks" represents undue intervention in market processes. In particular, the preferential treatment of co-investment models for new network elements should not be restricted to very high capacity networks. Sector-specific ex-ante regulation of vertically separate network operators is unnecessary.