barriers to competition

The most important, she said, is that individual states remove their own regulatory barriers to competition.

In the energy sector, you are right to be concerned that the facts show serious barriers to competition.

Except in the case of spectrum, the government has largely removed the barriers to competition already.

The Treasury select committee had called for the "big four" to remove barriers to competition.

But the burden of proof that all barriers to competition have been removed must be on the telephone industry.

Nobody ever said deregulation would be simple, especially when it comes to knocking down barriers to competition in the communications industry.

And as more states lower the barriers to competition among utilities, finding lower-priced energy should become even easier.

The new Senate bill covers nearly every facet of telecommunications and is intended to reduce barriers to competition.

We need common rules and the barriers to competition have to be eliminated, which obviously applies to all Member States.

Competition Advocates are responsible for identifying and removing barriers to competition.

Such expenditures create new barriers to competition and serve to concentrate service industries, just as many manufacturing sectors have experienced.

The relaxation of these regulations has, in turn, further reduced barriers to competition and accelerated the modernization of our financial system.

Various apparent barriers to competition, such as the bottlenecks created by the power grid operators, must be straightened out without delay.

The foundation has a mission to end the United States' dependence on oil by removing barriers to competition in the transportation fuel market.

One of the things we felt was very important was we wanted a technology and intellectual property advantage that would be barriers to competition."

In addition, it believes it will be both agile and aggressive enough to make winning moves when the barriers to competition come down.

Subsidies, monopolies and barriers to competition are still impeding markets and development alike.

"The central purpose of the provision was not to empower the states to favor local liquor industries by erecting barriers to competition."

That is a particular danger as cross-state barriers to competition disappear, since New York's environmental laws are tougher than most states'.

"If there is to be an 'industrial policy for the knowledge age,' it should focus on removing barriers to competition and massively deregulating."

European countries have been trying to consolidate their own energy assets, even as the European Union is pushing for them to drop barriers to competition.

Mr. Fields says that sometimes Congress must "act to stimulate business by removing unnecessary regulations and eliminating barriers to competition."

The main preliminary findings of the sectoral inquiry were published in February 2006 and identified a number of existing barriers to competition.

The barriers to competition have meant less pressure on Detroit to make its models cleaner and more fuel efficient, two strengths of Japanese car makers.

The decision, reversing a Federal appellate ruling, advanced the broad trend toward breaking down regulatory barriers to competition between banks and securities firms.