Services of General Economic Interest: The European Commission publishes a report on the evaluation of the performance of network industries providing SGEI (EC Comm. 20 december 2005)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. – EC Commission, Second Report from the European Commission on the Evaluation of the Performance of Network Industries Providing Services of General Economic Interest (Working Document SEC(2005) 1781 of 20 December 2005). As part of the so-called "Cardiff process" (cf. European Council of June 1998), the Commission is responsible for preparing technical reports on the performance of goods, services and capital markets in the European Union as a basis for proposals to improve the efficiency of the application of Single Market rules. In this perspective, and following a mandate from the Laeken and Barcelona European Councils, the Commission seeks to assess