Regulation of Turkish Network Industries

Muzaffer EROGLU is an assistant professor at the University of Kocaeli; he lectures on the company law, energy law, and competition law. He holds an LLB from Ankara University, an LLM from the University of Kent, and a Ph.D. from Queen Mary University of London. He is a member of the Ankara Bar.  His academic research focuses on company law, corporate governance, competition law, and energy law. He published a book “Multinational Enterprises and Tort Liabilities.” He has several publications in the field of company law, competition law, and energy law in both English and Turkish. He also carried out researches as a visiting academic at the University of Oslo, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg, and European Institute of Florence.Matthias FINGER is a professor emeritus in charge of Digital Governance and Regulation at the Center for Digital Trust (C4DT) at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne, Switzerland (EPFL).He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Geneva. He has been an assistant professor at Syracuse University, New York; an associate professor at Columbia University, New York; a professor of Management of Public Enterprises at the Swiss Federal Institute of Public Administration; and between 2002 and 2020 the Swiss Post Chair in Management of Network Industries at EPFL. Since 2010, he is a part-time professor at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy, where he directs the Florence School of Regulation’s Transport Area (FSR-T). Since 2017, he is also a professor at the Faculty of Management at Istanbul Technical University (ITÜ), directing the Istanbul Center for Regulation (IC4R).

• 0. Introduction .- Part 1. Regulation of Energy and Water .- 1.1 Regulation of Electricity Generation .- 1.2 Regulation of the high-voltage Electricity Grid .- 1.3 Regulation of Electricity Distribution .- 1.4 Regulation of Electricity Trading .- 1.5 Regulation of Private Contracts .- 1.6 Regulation of the Natural Gas Grid .- 1.7 Regulation of Natural Gas Distribution .- 1.8 Regulation of Natural Gas Contracts .- 1.9 Regulation of Domestic Water .- Part 2. Regulation of Transport and Logistics .- 2.1 Regulation of airports .- 2.2 Regulation of air traffic control .- 2.3 Regulation of air carriers .- 2.4 Regulation of rail transport .- 2.5 Regulation of motorways .- 2.6 Regulation of urban transport the example of Istanbul .- 2.7 Regulation of intercity bus travel .- 2.8 Regulation of the postal sector .- 2.9 Regulation of Ports .- Part 3. Regulation of Communication .- 3.1 Regulation of Fixed telecom lines .- 3.2 Regulation of Fiber and the internet .- 3.3 Regulation of mobile communication .- Part 4. Regulation of Network Industries .- 4.1 Privatization of Turkey’s Network Industries .- 4.2 Public-Private Partnerships 4.3 Regulatory authorities .- 4.4 Relationship between competition regulation and sector specific regulation .- 5. Conclusion.