Article 82 EC and hold-ups - Is Article 82 EC an appropriate tool to remedy hold-ups in standard-setting?
Standard-setting is undoubtedly beneficial to society. Its foremost advantage is that it ensures interoperability between products and thereby increases consumer welfare. Standardization covers a wide range of activities, but for the purpose of this thesis it can be defined as activities that set technical specifications that seek to provide a common design for a product or process. Standards thus