medications close to home. Elba Rahmouni: This project was developed at a time when Kenya was undergoing significant changes in its constitution, with the so-called devolution process giving the regions and their subdivisions greater autonomy. Did that decentralisation process have an impact on how the project was conducted? Léon Salumu: The decentralisation of power also meant decentralisation of our interlocutors. The devolution was a great help
. How might NGOs respond? Will MSF leave the European cities in which its operational centres are based, and will the International Rescue Committee move from its New York headquarters to Dakar, Jakarta or Quito? At the moment, the answer of most major relief groups is implied by their stasis: no. But some measure of devolution appears necessary if they are to retain legitimacy. The gravest political challenge NGOs face lies not in what is going on in the Global South but rather what is going on at home in the Global North, particularly in Europe
conflict. Issue linkage and package deals are two examples of this. Others include conciliation procedures, co-ordinating mechanisms and policy forums. Peterson and Bomberg identify other institutional norms (Peterson and Bomberg 1999: 53–58). ‘Negotiated enforcement’ as opposed to imposed enforcement is frequently preferred by the Commission in cases that are politically sensitive. Finally, an increasingly institutionalised norm is the use of the subsidiarity principle. This norm became associated with the greater devolution of policy-making functions to national and
the competition law procedure be adopted, a new set of actors will play an important part in the development of separate territories. Under the Commission’s proposals, in addition to the Commission, national courts and regulatory authorities will also be able to apply the exemption criteria outlined in Article 81(3). The devolution of the powers to apply Article 81 will allow the Commission to concentrate on the most serious abuses of competition law. Sport is unlikely to be considered such an important sector. As such, the national courts and competition bodies