The European Union and Space - Space for Competition?
- Paper number
IAC-18,E7,2,8,x43000
- Author
Prof. Frans von der Dunk, The Netherlands, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- Year
2018
- Abstract
From the inception of European integration, a regime trying to regulate and arrange competition as much as considered necessary for the benefit of society at large has been one of the core elements of the European Union's legal order. While the European Union has over the past few decades become more and more involved in the European space effort, this has so far hardly given rise to fundamental application of this competition regime, even if space also in Europe increasingly has become commercialized and privatized. The current paper investigates the reasons and rationale for this special situation, addressing inter alia the special character of outer space activities and the space industry and the role of the European Space Agency in this respect.
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