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MAIN TYPES OF EU REGULATORY INTERVENTION
Submitted by christian on Tue, 01/12/2016 - 17:58
Regulation can respond to market failures and other policy problems in different ways. The practice of ex ante impact assessment of regulation in the European Commission has led, over time, to a definition of a number of “types” of regulatory intervention.
Regulation through information. This is a very ‘light-touch’ form of regulation, which aims at affecting consumer and firm behaviour by increasing the amount of information available on the marketplace.
