Competitive Neutrality Toolkit
Promoting a Level Playing Field
The Competitive Neutrality Toolkit provides a set of good practices, based on examples from international experience, to support public officials in identifying and reducing distortions to competition due to state intervention. It supports the implementation of the principles set out in the OECD Recommendation on Competitive Neutrality to promote a level playing field, and covers the Recommendation’s main themes: competition law and enforcement, regulatory environment, public procurement, state support, and public service obligations.
Also available in: French
Public Service Obligations
Public service obligations are placed upon selected market actors in order to ensure to all consumers an appropriate access to essential services, which would not be provided by the market under commercial conditions. The assignment and delivery of public service obligations can, under certain circumstances, distort competition. This chapter presents a set of questions to guide the analysis, good practices and examples on how to implement the OECD Recommendation on Competitive Neutrality in public service obligations.
Also available in: French
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