Public Service Obligations: Protection of Public Service Values in a National and European Context

摘要: Terms such as ‘services in the general interest’ and of economic have received a lot attention from legal scholars other practitioners law during course last decade. The same amount has not been paid to term ‘public service obligations’, which represents common mechanism for realisation services interest throughout Member States European Union. However, obligation’ is thoroughly defined concept within Union its framework. In this chapter, traced back origins French Anglo-Saxon public administrative it explained, how interpreted applied context EU law. Special focus placed on single provision dealing explicitly with obligations can be found Treaty Functioning namely Article 93 State aid transport