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The European Community Competition Law And The Economic Integration Of Europe

Posted on:2009-07-08Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:H Z ZhengFull Text:PDF
GTID:2166360272458408Subject:International Law
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The Economic Integration of Europe is derived from the European Coal and Steel Community which was set up in April 8th 1951, the Treaty of which has stipulated rules about competition. In March 25th 1957, when the experience of the European Coal and Steel Community was copied to European Economic Community, the European Community Competition Law just for the first time showed up before people in the world. It is obvious that the EC Competition Law relates to the Economic Integration of Europe deeply. The former came out in the background of the latter. However, how does this close relationship present itself? Does any function exist which one performs to the other? If the function does exist, should it be unilateral or bilateral? The questions thereof would be answered in turns through four parts of the paper.Chapter One of this paper, based on the history, tells the first relationship between the Economic Integration of Europe and the EC Competition Law: the political need made the Integration of Europe start in the field of economy, then the Economic Integration of Europe gave birth to the EC Competition Law. Besides, Chapter One introduces selectively the main traits and trend of development of the EC Competition Law according to the purpose of the paper.The expansion of the integration activity should be credited to the consummate system, especially the legal system. The Economic Integration of Europe needs the EC Competition Law. This is the second point of view about their relationship in the paper. Thus Chapter Two discusses it by three steps. In the first step, the standpoint is illustrated that the core of the Economic Integration of Europe is to establish market economy system, with the reason that the Economic Integration of Europe has the function of expanding the market and the market economy has the superiority in the process of integration compared with the planned economy. Then the opinion that the market economy can not work without competition law is discussed in the second step. The competition law is requested to perfect the market mechanism and to protect the public interest and economic democracy. In the third step, the conclusion of this chapter therefore comes out: a highly developed market economy system is implemented in the Economic Integration of Europe, thus the Economic Integration of Europe needs the EC Competition Law.After the relationship between the Economic Integration of Europe and the EC Competition Law has been clarified, the paper tries to discuss their bilateral functions to each other through Chapter Three and Chapter Four.At the same time when the Economic Integration of Europe develops itself, it also promotes the EC Competition Law, mostly in the aspects of basic competition rules, secondary legislation and the reform of the authorities. These are what Chapter Three intends to tell us.Chapter Four is divided into four sections to explain the contributions the EC Competition Law makes to the Economic Integration of Europe. For example, the competition policy and the commerce policy work together to promote the establishment of the united market; the EC Competition Law promotes the perfection of the united market by the means of strengthening the competition and cultivating the market participants; the EC Competition Law helps enhance the undertaking's economic benefit and the consumer welfare.
Keywords/Search Tags:the Economic Integration of Europe, the EC Competition Law, relationship, function
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