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Current issues of consumer protection in electronic communication
Černá, Milena ; Svoboda, Pavel (advisor) ; Šmejkal, Václav (referee)
Consumer protection is an issue affecting a very broad group of citizens of the European Union. EU reflects customer protection in all its policies. I have focused on electronic communication because of my work experience in that field. In my thesis I am trying to compare my experience with valid legislation. In addition, electronic communication services are used by European consumers every day widespread through society. I have tried to follow the development of EU legislation in electronic communication sector focusing on consumer protection. This topic is very closely connected with price regulation and the whole situation on the electronic communication market. My goal is to define main problems of legislation by using case law and my knowledge from practice. In the first chapter of my thesis, I focus on general consumer protection in EU, which is applicable to all contracts concluded by consumers (unfair terms, contracts negotiated away from business premises etc.). I am pointing out issues I encountered in practice. I also compare implementation of EU legislation by EU member states. Second chapter of my work is concerned with EU regulatory framework of electronic communication valid from 2003 to 2009. I aimed at legislation related to consumer protection. I focused on main problems of the...
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Regulation of electronic communication market in terms of protection of economic competition
Sedláčková, Monika ; Horáček, Vít (advisor) ; Horáček, Tomáš (referee)
The aim of my thesis is to analyse regulation of electronic communication market with regard to competition law aspects. Electronic communication sector of nowadays globalized world is developing rapidly and represents a precondition for the economic growth. Due to the characteristics of a network industry and the fact that this sector was regulated historically by monopoly firms owned by the state, the purpose of this paper is to identify which difficulties this market has to face through the dualistic regulation. To secure a fair competition with equal conditions for competitors operating electronic communication networks or providing electronic communication services is not an easy task, nevertheless it's essential for the welfare of the consumers. My thesis is composed of six main chapters. In the first one, I provide the definitions of the main terms which are related to this topic. Moreover, I focus on the characteristics of the electronic communication sector and integrate the topic into the historical context. In particular, I describe the beginning of the liberalisation of this sector and provide an outline of the harmonisation process which is represented by the legal provisions adopted by the European Union. Second and the most extensive chapter is dedicated to ex ante regulation which...
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Regulation of virtual operators in the Czech Republic
Winkelbauer, Erik ; Korbel, František (advisor) ; Millerová, Ivana (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to provide an overview of the rights and obligations of mobile virtual network operators in the Czech Republic and the corresponding rights and obligations of mobile network operators. The first part of the paper looks at electronic communications in general. It begins with a description of the development of European Union electronic communications legislation, the currently valid Electronic Communications Act and its relation to the Code of Administrative Procedure. The paper then presents the legal regulation of administrative supervision, competition law, public consultation procedure, notification procedure and the procedural regulation of adopting a measure of general nature. The authority and the organization of the Czech Telecommunication Office (CTO) and a classification of the business models used by mobile virtual network operators is then detailed. The second part of the text addresses legal rules directly governing mobile virtual operators, commencing with the legal prerequisites for the provision of electronic communications services and a notification of intention to commence the provision of these services. A thorough exploration of the legal regulation of the access and interconnection and reference offers based upon this regulation is then included. The paper...
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Regulation of electronic communication market in terms of protection of economic competition
Sedláčková, Monika ; Horáček, Vít (advisor) ; Horáček, Tomáš (referee)
The aim of my thesis is to analyse regulation of electronic communication market with regard to competition law aspects. Electronic communication sector of nowadays globalized world is developing rapidly and represents a precondition for the economic growth. Due to the characteristics of a network industry and the fact that this sector was regulated historically by monopoly firms owned by the state, the purpose of this paper is to identify which difficulties this market has to face through the dualistic regulation. To secure a fair competition with equal conditions for competitors operating electronic communication networks or providing electronic communication services is not an easy task, nevertheless it's essential for the welfare of the consumers. My thesis is composed of six main chapters. In the first one, I provide the definitions of the main terms which are related to this topic. Moreover, I focus on the characteristics of the electronic communication sector and integrate the topic into the historical context. In particular, I describe the beginning of the liberalisation of this sector and provide an outline of the harmonisation process which is represented by the legal provisions adopted by the European Union. Second and the most extensive chapter is dedicated to ex ante regulation which...
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Current issues of consumer protection in electronic communication
Černá, Milena ; Svoboda, Pavel (advisor) ; Šmejkal, Václav (referee)
Consumer protection is an issue affecting a very broad group of citizens of the European Union. EU reflects customer protection in all its policies. I have focused on electronic communication because of my work experience in that field. In my thesis I am trying to compare my experience with valid legislation. In addition, electronic communication services are used by European consumers every day widespread through society. I have tried to follow the development of EU legislation in electronic communication sector focusing on consumer protection. This topic is very closely connected with price regulation and the whole situation on the electronic communication market. My goal is to define main problems of legislation by using case law and my knowledge from practice. In the first chapter of my thesis, I focus on general consumer protection in EU, which is applicable to all contracts concluded by consumers (unfair terms, contracts negotiated away from business premises etc.). I am pointing out issues I encountered in practice. I also compare implementation of EU legislation by EU member states. Second chapter of my work is concerned with EU regulatory framework of electronic communication valid from 2003 to 2009. I aimed at legislation related to consumer protection. I focused on main problems of the...
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Selected directives of the European Union from the period 2009 - 2010, their transposition and economic impact in the Czech Republic
Kysil, Maxim ; Ševčíková, Michaela (advisor) ; Hájek, Jan (referee)
The aim of thesis is to evaluate the effect of selected directives in individual sectors in the Czech Republic. The theoretical part defines the defining characteristics of European Union law, especially the directives and their transposition into the Czech rule of law, also describes the decisions and voting in EU and lobbying organization. The analytical part deals with the four selected directives: biofuels, renewable resources, electronic communications and energy performance of buildings. For each directive analysis was made of the transposition and influence in the sector with the result which confirmed in all directives the prevailing negative impact for the Czech Republic.
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Regulation of Electronic Communications
Rosenberg, Jan ; Císař, Jan (advisor) ; Munzi, Tomáš (referee)
The purpose of my diploma thesis is to determine whether regulation of fixed access electronic communications networks, as defined by the European regulatory framework, leads in Czech market to its objectives to be reached and possibly discuss the reasons for failure. For this purpose diploma thesis analyzed the development of two relevant markets focusing on competition in fixed telecommunications services. The work shows that the purpose of regulation is not completely filled, because there is no reduction in market share of incumbent at both markets. However, it is only because of settings of regulation. However, from the perspective of the end customer, competitive market exists. Author in the end proposes own solution to the problem in the form of deregulation of access obligation.
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Legal Matters of the Electronic Communications Market
Šenoltová, Zuzana ; Boháček, Martin (advisor) ; Sedláček, Václav (referee)
The graduation thesis "Legal Matters of the Electronic Communications Market" maps the complete system of the economic, historic and particularly the legal consequences of the contemporary conception of the regulation of the e-communications market. It is focused primarily on the relationship between the ex ante regulation and the ex post remedy of the market failure, it monitors the development of how the public interest in providing these services has developed with the reference to the universal service, and it provides a detailed analysis of the new European regulatory framework of the e-communications market that has been accepted in November 2009.
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