The Concept of the Sector-Specific Regulation under European and Polish Legal Systems
The Concept of the Sector-Specific Regulation under European and Polish Legal Systems

Summary/Abstract: Nowadays, the regulatory law is very important part of the public law because of various reasons. First of all, a regulatory law refers to competition on infrastructural markets. This means that the whole liberalization process should lead to effective competition between undertakings which provide services of general economic interest. The second reason is related strictly to protection of end-users. In this context, basic rule refers to the concept of the services of general economic interest and universal services. So, alongside the provision guaranteeing and protecting competition (the regulation for competition), provision with reference to guaranteeing consumer's benefits (the social regulation) can be distinguished. Even, when the competition in infrastructural sectors will exist and provisions promoting competition in infrastructural sectors will not be necessary, the idea of the social regulation, will still exist. The third reason is focused on safety of infrastructural sectors, especially energy and railway safety. This fact means that apart from regulatory activities, the regulatory authorities execute typical administrative activities. Finally, in the context of the independent sector regulation, the independent regulatory authorities play the most important role. So, it is necessary, at the national level, to issue regulatory tasks to authorities which are independent.

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