Bloomsbury Telecommunication Laws in Europe: Law and Regulation of Electronic Communications in Europe

Product Description Telecommunication Laws in Europe is a unique guidance book providing a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of telecommunications regulation, law and regulatory practice in Europe, enabling you to: Make valuable comparative analyses with detailed coverage of 34 EU and non-EU countries in a single, accessible source; Ensure that your company's/clients' current and future activities do not conflict with the rules outlined in the 2009 EU Regulatory Package; Successfully evaluate opportunities for expansion within the European telecoms industry and potential pitfalls. The lead chapter on Electronic Communication Law and Policy of the European Union provides an in-depth analysis on the EU legal framework for the electronic communications sector, as amended by the 2009 EU Regulatory Package. In 34 country chapters, local experts describe and analyse the telecommunications laws and regulatory practice of the EU Member States and several non-EU countries in Europe. The EU chapter and the country chapters are complemented by detailed chapters on EU Data Protection and Privacy, EU Competition Law in the Telecommunications Sector, The Law of the International Telecommunication Union and the World Trade Organisation, and Compliance and Risk Management. Telecommunication Laws in Europe is essential reading for all lawyers and non-legal executives involved in telecom, IT and media. Countries included: EU: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, UK. Non EU: Croatia, Macedonia, Norway, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine. Review It is most useful as a specialist reference work for any legal or regulatory practitioner who is exposed to international telecommunication work…[There is] no doubt that this is a definitive work on this subject. --Communications Law The mighty tome is a 'one-stop' guide for lawyers and practitioners working in the telecoms industry...[It] will assist any international lawyer working in the field of data protection audits, foreign data transfer, direct marketing and data warehousing, and general data privacy protection on the internet...Above all, the individual authors offer constructive and extremely useful legal terminology for each country. --Entertainment Law Review An important contribution for a better understanding of the challenges related to both liberalisation of markets for electronic communications and harmonisation, if not uniformisation, of regulatory practices in the field. --Journal of International Commercial Law and Technology About the Author Prof. Dr. Joachim Scherer is acting as Editor. Joachim is a partner at Baker & McKenzie and currently head of Baker & McKenzie’s telecoms practice (both in Europe and globally). He is adjunct professor of public and EU law at Goethe University in Frankfurt.