EU regulatory regimes

This chapter evaluates EU regulatory regimes in air transport, tele-

communications and electricity against the typology of governance regimes outlined in Chapter 1. Its central purpose is to test the contention that the

institutional characteristics of EU regulatory regimes will impact on pat-

terns of policy transfer. In terms of the typology of transfer outcomes out-

lined in Chapter 1, we would expect to find hierarchical governance regimes

generating stronger transfer outcomes – emulation or synthesis – leading to

policy convergence. Governance by facilitation, by contrast, can be expected

to produce weaker outcomes – either influence or abortive transfer.