Consultation on proposed designation and de-designation criteria for airports
Table of contents
- Purpose of the consultation
- Timetable for the consultation
- Background
- Developments since publication of the 1995 criteria
- Market Liberalisation
- Developments in Competition Law
- Consideration of a request for the designation of Luton Airport
- Recent reports on the UK airports sector
- The Government's approach to proportionate economic regulation
- The existing criteria - the case for change
- Assessing the existing criteria
- Mixing the relevant test with evidence
- Taking account of likely future developments
- Application to designation and de-designation
- The airport's market position
- The importance of UK and European competition law
- The costs and benefits of price cap regulation
- Conclusion - the case for change
- Developing new criteria
- The Degree of Market power
- The role of competition law
- The costs and benefits of price cap regulation
- The proposed criteria
- Wider considerations
- Next steps
- Consultees
- Regulatory Impact Assessment
- Freedom of Information
- Responses and enquiries
- Annex A List of Consultees
- Annex B Code of Practice on Consultation

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