Market and Competition Authorities: Good Agency Principles

Annetje Ottow is Professor of Public Economic Law at Utrecht University's Centre for Regulation and Enforcement in Europe. She is currently the Dean of Utrecht University's Faculty of Law, Economics and Governance. Before starting her academic career she worked in private practice for almost fifteen years, specializing in competition law and regulation. She combines her teaching and research as a professor with non-executive board membership of various regulatory andcompetition authorities.

As a non-executive board member of the former Dutch telecommunications authority (OPTA), she was responsible for overall strategic legal issues, as well as being involved in OPTA's enforcement strategy and consequently also in the merger of the Dutch Competition Authority (NMa) with OPTA and the Dutch Consumer Authority (CA). In October 2013 she was appointed a non-executive director of the Competition & Markets Authority (CMA), the UK's newly created competition
authority.

The rules regulating behaviour of market and competition authorities are equally important for the work of these authorities as regulation itself. This book discusses the behavioural elements involved when applying regulation, and evaluates the success and failures of the processes used against fundamental agency principles.