Translation of "Effektiver wettbewerb" in English

Once effective competition exists, we shall cease to impose ex-ante regulation.

This would enable us to compete more effectively with other agencies.

Effective competition pushes prices down and raises standards of living.

Through innovation, you too can compete more effectively and accelerate your ambition.

Effective competition in the supply of goods and services reduces prices, improves quality and allows greater choice for consumers.

Consumers will benefit from these economic advantages, but only if effective competition is maintained on the market.

We have to respond to this challenge by putting the emphasis on our competitiveness, innovation and ability to respond to change and to compete more effectively in the future.

Given the ability of EoI to deliver faster innovation in the retail market, EoI should, in principle, be introduced at the deepest possible network level at which competition will be effective and sustainable in the long term.

The Commission is right when it points out that, even today, there is still no effective competition in the railway market.

Consumers will share these gains, provided that effective competition is maintained in the market.

This list highlights the difficulties which have still to be overcome if we are to achieve healthy and effective competition in both the European Community and the world.

Moreover, some persons have claimed that the objectives of the internal market might not be achieved in certain situations, owing to a lack of effective competition on the market.

It is essential that effective competition gets established quickly and that consumers have a real choice of service suppliers; that the quality of services, including supply security, remains high, with no black-outs; and that established European goals, notably on renewables, are achieved.

Further steps have been taken in 2004 towards the liberalisation of network industries, but effective competition is not always ensured as the still very high market share of incumbents seems to indicate.

The EU should compete more effectively and increase its productivity by a lower and more efficient consumption of non-renewable energy and resources in a world of high energy and resources prices, and greater competition for energy and resources.

In particular, please refer to the relevant market concerned and the reasons why you consider that the market is effectively competitive or the three criteria are not met:

Where such constraints preclude self-handling and where there is no effective competition between suppliers that provide groundhandling services, all such services shall be available on both an equal and non-discriminatory basis to all air carriers.

Where a given Member State has not used a financing mechanism for the provision of the universal service, as permitted under Article 7, and where the national regulatory authority is satisfied that none of the designated universal service providers in that Member State is in receipt of State assistance, hidden or otherwise, and that competition in the market is fully effective, the national regulatory authority may decide not to apply the requirements of this Article.’;

In order to ensure a proportionate and adaptable approach to varying competitive conditions, national regulatory authorities should be able to define markets on a sub-national basis and to lift regulatory obligations in markets and/or geographic areas where there is effective infrastructure competition.

For the purpose of its assessment under paragraph 3, the Commission shall take into account in particular the following criteria: fair and non-discriminatory network access, effective regulation, the development of the network to meet market needs, undistorted incentives to invest, the development of interconnection infrastructure, effective competition in the energy markets of the Community and the security of supply situation in the Community.

In the in-depth investigation, the Commission will examine whether effective competition will prevail post-merger.

Regulatory authorities shall cooperate at least on a regional level to foster the creation of operational arrangements in order to ensure an optimal management of the network, develop joint gas exchanges and the allocation of cross-border capacity, and to ensure a minimum level of interconnection capacity within the region to allow for effective competition to develop.

Effective competition in the financial markets improves access to finance by lowering the cost of capital.

Effective competition in the EU internal market makes, through improved productivity and innovation, a decisive contribution to the competitiveness of the European industry.

There was no indication that circumstances had changed such that the consortia were shielded from effective competition.

At the same time, however, Brussels will this year cease to recommend ex-ante regulation on all those markets in which effective competition already exists or is clearly and sustainably taking root.

Some sites may be more easily replicable and could, over time, become characterised by a tendency towards effective competition and no longer warrant regulatory intervention.

These undertakings should remove any dependency of distributors on Imperial Tobacco, thereby ensuring that own-label cigarettes continue to be an effective source of competition in the UK market.