An Approach to Estimate Regulatory Performance
—In order to follow the trends imposed by globalization, the regulation should be based on technological neutrality and market orientation. The aim is to protect the interests of users, strengthen the competition, support involvement of new participants on the market and exert positive influence on the economic growth. Technological convergence enables all types of networks to provide almost any service, thus imposing the need for the regulation to follow the same trend. In order to minimize the differences among communication market beneficiaries, it is necessary to harmonize the communication market legislative framework among countries. In our view, the most efficient harmonization is achieved with support from convergent regulatory authorities of the communications market. The regulatory performance is measured using statistical techniques on data obtained from interviewing relevant European institutions and authorities.