Reports
National Access Regime Report 2001
Productivity Commission's Review of the National Access Regime
Inquiry Report No. 17
Length: 536 pages
Key Recommendations
The PC proposed a range of modifications to Part IIIA, including (from page XII Report]
"– inserting an objects clause and pricing principles to guide regulators and industry and to discourage unwarranted divergence across industry-specific regimes;
– strengthening the coverage criteria to ensure that mandated access would only occur where it would promote a substantial increase in competition. This would guard against the inappropriate declaration of essential facilities;
– streamlining the coverage criteria applying across the regime’s different access routes to reduce the scope for inconsistent determinations;
– enhancing the prospects for negotiated outcomes and ultimately effective arbitrations, through modifications to the negotiate-arbitrate framework; and
– improving administrative efficiency and transparency to address the currently
cumbersome and protracted arrangements."
Key statements
Forthcoming
Membership
Gary Banks (Chairman)
Submissions and meetings
Forthcoming
Legislative changes
See Trade Practices Amendment (National Access Regime) Act 2006