Interest groups access and influence to the mobile phone - Roaming decision-making process at EU-level.

This research paper investigates the access of consumer and producer groups to the EU institutions. A scheme of supply and demand for access goods is used to demonstrate the exchange of information for the Regulation (EU) 531/2012 on roaming on public mobile communications networks within the Community. The analysis suggests that the organizational form of an interest group is relevant, to gain access to the decision-making actors at EU-level. The access theory developed by Pieter Bouwen (2002) serves in combination with a model of independent and dependent variables as framework for the investigation