Organisations/Institutions

http://www.bundeskartellamt.de/wEnglisch/index.php
The main tasks of the federal cartel office comply of the enforcement of cartel ban, the execution of merging control as well as the control of abusive practices by market-dominating companies. The federal cartel office can forbid the merge of companies, disallow abusive acting, impose conditions and declare fines.

www.fcc.gov
The Federal Communications Commission is an autonomous US-agency that is directly subordinate to the congress. The agency controls the radio, television, satellite and cable communication and is the regulatory authority for radios, computers and TV’s.

www.monopolkommission.de
The monopoly commission is an independent advisory board, which consists of specialists and works towards the German Minister of Economics. The most important task for them is to produce a report every two years about the cartel situation in Germany, which warns for miss-developments on the basis of indications.

http://www.bundesnetzagentur.de
The Bundesnetzagentur has the task, through liberalisation and deregulation, to push the developments on the electricity-, gas-, telecommunication-, postal-, and since 01. January 2006 also the rail- infrastructure market. It was given powerful instruments to accomplish these regulation goals, which also implies the information and investigation rights as well as the possibility of sanctioning.

www.socialpolitik.org/vfs.php?mode=start
The Verein für Socialpolitik wants "to scientifically assess problems in economic- and social-economic science as well as economic- and social-economic politics. Furthermore the international relations between its members should be kept alive".

http://europa.eu.int/competition/index_de.html
The competition resort of the European Commission (Commissioner Neelie Kroes) has to keep up and realise a functional competition inside the markets of the European Union.