Edited by Saul Estrin, Head, Department of Management, London School of Economics, UK and Peter Holmes, formerly, Jean Monnet Reader in the Economics of European Integration, Sussex European Institute, University of Sussex, UK

• Contents: 1. Competition Policy for Central and Eastern Europe: The Challenge of the Europe Agreements (S. Estrin and P. Holmes) 2. The Central European Countries and the European Union’s Waiting Room: Why Must they Adopt the EU’s Competition Law? (E.M. Fox) 3. Central and East European Countries’ Approximation of Legislation in the Competition Field: If, Why and How? (T. Jakob) 4. EU Competition policy Without Membership: Lessons from the European Economic Area (E. Smith) 5. The Full Potential of the Europe Agreement: Private Positive Comity, Direct Effect and New Balancing within Public Interest Clauses (G. Marceau) 6. Competition Policy as a Framework for Privatization: The Case of Greece (M. Frangakis) 7. Greek Legislation on Competition policy and its Implementation (N.C. Baltas) 8. Central Issues of Hungarian Competition Policy in the Light of Association with the European Union (F. Vissi) 9. Implementing Competition Policy in Poland: Transition and the European Integration Context (J. Saryusz-Wolski) 10. Approximating Czech Competition Law and the European Union Law: Advantages and Disadvantages (S. Matzchova) 11. Some Aspects of Relations between the European Union and Slovakia (E. Jurzyca) 12. Choices in Transition: The Contract State and Direct Service in Local Government Expenditure (S. Szymanski) Index

'The volume has raised wide-ranging questions relating to integration and transition of controlled economies to market economies. Most of these experiences are useful for countries with bulging fiscal deficit and struggling hard to bring in efficiency in public expenditure. . . . The volume will no doubt be useful for policymakers and researchers of countries in transition.'