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100	1		_aSzyszczak, Erika. _eeditor.
245	1	0	_aFinancing Services of General Economic Interest _h[electronic resource] : _bReform and Modernization / _cedited by Erika Szyszczak, Johan Willem Gronden.
264		1	_aThe Hague, The Netherlands : _bT. M. C. Asser Press : _bImprint: T.M.C. Asser Press, _c2013.
300			_aXVII, 295 p. 1 illus. _bonline resource.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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490	1		_aLegal Issues of Services of General Interest
505	0		_aIntroduction -- The Impact of Altmark: the European Commission Case Law Responses -- The European Courts’ Jurisprudence after Altmark: Evolution of Devolution? The Role of Procurement and Services of General Economic Interest after Altmark -- The European Commission’s Reform Strategy -- The Almunia Package: Legal Constraints, Policy Procedures and Political Choices -- The Almunia Package: State aid and Services of General Economic Interest -- Financing Services of General Economic Interest: the European Commission’s Economic Tests -- The Commission’s Modernization Agenda for Procurement and Services of General Economic Interest -- The Altmark Update and Social Services-Towards a European Approach -- Transport -- This Won’t Hurt a Bit: the Commission’s Approach to Services of General Economic Interest and State Aid to Hospitals -- Conclusion.
520			_aThis book examines the legacy of the 2003 ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union in Altmark. This case changed the direction of how Services of General Economic Interest (SGEI) should be funded in the EU against a background of liberalisation, and the need for efficiency and global competitiveness. The book examines the European Commission’s response to the Altmark ruling in the measures known as the ‘Altmark-Monti-Kroes Package’ and charts the review of this package from 2009 culminating in a new package of measures, known as the ‘Almunia Package’. The seemingly technocratic idea of a review of the ‘Altmark-Monti-Kroes Package’ could not have anticipated the demanding and changed economic and constitutional context of the EU in 2009. It is in this light that the authors in this book explore in great detail the different components of the new ‘Almunia Package’ of measures introduced in 2011-2012, offering a critical review and highlighting where the future direction of the regulation of SGEI may lead as the EU struggles in an economic climate of austerity to balance a new constitutional dimension of a ‘highly competitive social market economy’ with a modernisation agenda for the single market. This book is a valuable source of information for politicians, lawyers and economists involved in practice and policy-making in the field of the provision of public services.
650		0	_aLaw.
650		0	_aPublic law.
650	1	4	_aLaw.
650	2	4	_aEuropean Law.
650	2	4	_aPublic Law.
700	1		_aGronden, Johan Willem. _eeditor.
710	2		_aSpringerLink (Online service)
773	0		_tSpringer eBooks
776	0	8	_iPrinted edition: _z9789067049054
830		0	_aLegal Issues of Services of General Interest
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-6704-906-1
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