Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- List of tables and figures -- Notes on contributors -- Series editor's preface -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Regulation and its modes -- Theories of regulation -- The rise of statutory regulation in Europe -- The European Commission as regulator -- Regulatory legitimacy in the European context: the British Health and Safety Executive -- Environmental regulation and administrative reform in Britain -- The law and policy of competition in Germany -- Independent administrative authorities in France and the case of the French Council for Competition -- Competition law and policy in Spain: implementation in an interventionist tradition -- The German Federal Supervisory Authority for Insurance -- The European Commission as regulator: the uncertain pursuit of the competitive market -- The future of regulation in Europe -- Regulatory legitimacy -- Index.

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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