Unidad de mercado y supervisión administrativa de las actividades económicas

Abstract

The disparity of regional regulations generates distortions in the economic regime of companies being prejudicial to their management. However, the Act on market unity guarantee does not include positive harmonisation measures, instead establishing a deregulated strategy which includes some technically disputable provisions. Henceforth, the paper is focused on the critical study of the system of determination of the competent authority for the supervising of economic activities, based on the concepts of authority of origin, of destination and the place of manufacturing. It highlights that the authority of origin must be that of the first access and that the authorities of destination must control the exercise of activities in conformity with their own regulation. The examination reveals that the application of the system would require overcoming certain technical legislative defects —an interpretation being sufficient in some cases and a legal modification being required in others— as well as a close cooperation of the public administrations involved.