Preliminary communication
BROADBAND NETWORKS AND STATE AID POLICY AND LAW
Aleš Ferčič
; University of Maribor, Faculty of law, Maribor, Slovenia
Abstract
In this article, the Author discusses fundamental questions of State aids in the field of broadband network. After the short introduction, which sketches relationships between state aid policy and other policies, including broadband public policy, and after he illustrates the state of play of Slovenian broadband networks, he discusses main challenges in application of State aid rules to public fi nancing of broadband networks. In this regard, special emphasis is dedicated to legal analysis of conditions for the presence of State aids, and to conditions for the compatibility of State aids for broadband network with the Internal market. Furthermore, he emphasizes the importance of coherent public actions and policies in various fi elds; public policies shall, as far as possible, supplement each other and shall avoid their mutual collisions.
Unfortunately, this is not always the case as the author points out regarding the reckless spatial policy, which has negative effects, inter alia, on the Slovenian broadband networks.
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Hrčak ID:
160585
URI
Publication date:
29.6.2016.
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