CANCELLED. The principle of competitive neutrality: potentials and limitations of an international trend

The principle of competitive neutrality, originally formulated in Australia during the 1990s to ensure that public businesses are neither advantaged nor disadvantaged simply because they are publicly owned or controlled, has been developed by the OECD and other international actors, including UNCTAD and the World Bank, since the beginning of the 2010s. The principle has gained momentum in recent years, particularly after the Government of China, among many others, publicly committed in 2019 to follow the principle in order to treat all enterprises, public and private, on an equal footing.

This talk will discuss the implications of the principle of competitive neutrality, as well as its potentials and limitations, in the currently uncertain political and economic context.  

Speaker: Juan Jorge Piernas López, Visiting Resercher at Harvard Law School.

Sponsors: RCC; Jean Monnet ad Personam Chair in European Union Law and Government.