Lukas Repu is a Senior Policy Officer at the EU Commission. After working at the University of California at Berkeley (UCB) as fellow at the Institute for European Studies (2018-19) he has more recently joined the Directorate General CONNECT of the EU Commission to work on innovation, start up funding and blockchain. Lukas is a lawyer by training with 19 years of professional experience in law firms and at the European Commission in Belgium, Brussels. He has a strong sectorial expertise in financial and energy markets and in competition policy. In the European Commission, his assignments involve managing teams of experts for conducting market analyses and investigations as well as policy initiatives.
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"The 2009 Broadcasting Communication"* On 2 July 2009 the Commission revised its 2001 Communication on State aid and public service broadcasting. After three public consultations, the revised Communication clarifies the legal framework for the expansion of public service broadcasters onto new (...)
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"Commission and Germany agree on better control for the use of State aid in the broadcasting sector"* On 18 December 2008, Germany’s 16 Ländersigned a new inter-state treaty on broadcasting, which implements a set of appropriate measures under the terms of a Commission Decision of April 2007. (...)
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"Commission prohibits MasterCard’s multilateral interchange fees for cross-border card payments in the EEA"* On 19 December 2007 the Commission adopted a decision prohibiting MasterCard‘s multilateral interchange fees (MIF) for cross-border card payments with MasterCard and Maestro-branded (...)
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"Sector Inquiry Identifies Widespread Competition Barriers in Retail Banking"* On 31 January 2007 the European Commission published the Final Report of its sector inquiry into European retail banking markets. The inquiry has identified a number of deficiencies in the way these markets work (...)
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"Preliminary results of Commission sector inquiry in payment cards industry raise competition concerns"* 1. Introduction The payment cards industry is of growing economic importance in Europe. Cards increasingly replace cash and cheques as payment means for over the counter purchases. In 2004 (...)
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