Regulating Services in the European Union

This book offers the first overview of services regulation in the EU, tracing its history from early, sector-specific interventions to the complex modern landscape of 'new governance' techniques. It sets the legal developments in their economic context and critiques the varied regulatory methods with which the EU has experimented.

1. Regulation and Services: Basic Conceptual Background ; 2. Economic versus Non-Economic Activities ; 3. Restrictions ; 4. Justifications ; 5. Judge-Made Regulation in the Field of Services ; 6. Regulation Through Legislation ; 7. Private Regulation ; 8. Non-Legislative Means of EU Regulation ; 9. Old versus New Governance in Services: An Outlook ; Conclusion: Future Directions - Towards 'Intermodal Homogeneity'?