exclusive provider organization | EPO

single-source drug

long-term partial requirements contract

long-term requirements contract

In the 1993 red book the Liberals promised to cut sole source contracts, but instead they are skyrocketing.

So, on the ACAN, we consider it in a special category, but we definitely don't agree with the Auditor General that ACAN is a sole-source program.

However, long-term exclusive contracts may impede access of service providers to premium content, reducing competition.

7. Calls on the Commission to take steps to eliminate market fragmentation and distortions by phasing out direct and indirect fossil fuel subsidies and doing away with regulated consumer energy prices; calls on the Commission, to this effect, to check whether the laws in force in some Member States – which, by granting exclusive rights, create supplier monopolies and thus lead to lower levels of competition and higher consumer prices – are consistent with the Treaties; points to the need to move gradually towards consistency among renewable energy support schemes in the Member States and to promote capacity mechanisms that work efficiently in a cro ...[+++]ss-border context; emphasises, to this effect, that great care must be taken to determine precisely which capacity-safeguarding measures are necessary and make sense;