Beyond legal transposition: regulatory agencies and de facto convergence of EU rail liberalization

Fabrizio De Francesco; Graziella Castro

doi:10.1080/13501763.2016.1254272

Beyond legal transposition: regulatory agencies and de facto convergence of EU rail liberalization

Fabrizio De Francesco, Graziella Castro

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Abstract

Notwithstanding its maturity, the literature on Europeanisation and compliance tends to overlook the implementation stages beyond the legal transposition of single-market regulatory reforms. This article explains the cross-national variation in the actual implementation of a fully liberalised and open rail market among the EU-15. The empirical findings from a statistical analysis of an index of railway liberalisation highlight the importance of the establishment of national regulatory agencies. Member states with an independent regulatory agency converge faster towards the EU model of full liberalisation. This conditional effect of EU railway harmonisation is enhanced by the presence of new entrants that activate the institutional functions of agencies as enforcers of EU legislation.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	369-388
Number of pages	20
Journal	Journal of European Public Policy
Volume	25
Issue number	3
Early online date	29 Nov 2016
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2016.1254272
Publication status	Published - 31 Jan 2018

Keywords

EU compliance
EU regulatory governance
de facto implementation
liberalization of utility markets
Rail Liberalisation Index

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