Abuse of Economic Dependence - The Centre for European Policy ...

Countries objectives Ensuring Promote Maximize Ensure Ensure Promote Promote Achieve Facilitate Promote
an effective consumer efficiency economic a level fairness consumer market privatiza- competitivecompetitive
welfare freedom playing and choice integration tion and ness in
process as a field for equality market international
goal and/or SMEs liberalization markets
a means
22 Pakistan X X X
23 Romania Xb X
24 Russia Xa X X X X X
25 Singapore Xc X
26 Slovak Republic Xb X
27 South Africa Xb X X X X X X
28 Sweden Xb X
29 Switzerland Xa X X X X
30 Turkey Xa X X X
31 Ukraine Xa X X
32 United Kingdom Xc X X
33 United States Xb X X
Total 32 30 20 13 7 6 5 4 2 2
* 33 agencies answered Part A of the Questionnaire relevant to Objectives.
a. 13 agencies cite ensuring an effective competitive process as a goal.
b. 15 agencies cite ensuring an effective competitive process as both a goal and a means. As noted in Section I of the report, this includes the 5
agencies that can be inferred to fall within this category.
c. 4 agencies cite ensuring an effective competitive process exclusively as a means to achieve other goals.