Not so flexible? The instrumental usage of soft law in EU telecommunications regulation

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At the hand of a case study in the telecom sector, this blogpost maintains that soft laws can erode the principles of accountability and vertical division of powers when used instrumentally/strategically by enforcers. An example of such strategic use will be the instance when, due to its ineffectiveness, a soft law instrument is converted/leveraged into hard law

Period30 Nov 2023

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  • TitleNot so flexible? The instrumental usage of soft law in EU telecommunications regulation
    Degree of recognitionInternational
    Media name/outletEULEN Network
    Media typeWeb
    Duration/Length/Size4 pages
    Country/TerritoryNetherlands
    Date30/11/23
    DescriptionAt the hand of a case study in the telecom sector, this blogpost maintains that soft laws can erode the principles of accountability and vertical division of powers when used instrumentally/strategically by enforcers. An example of such strategic use will be the instance when, due to its ineffectiveness, a soft law instrument is converted/leveraged into hard law.
    Producer/AuthorZlatina Georgieva, Dr.
    URLhttps://eulawenforcement.com/?p=8714
    PersonsZlatina Georgieva
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Keywords

  • telecommunications
  • soft law
  • enforcement