National Access Regime Report 2001
Productivity Commission's Review of the National Access Regime
Inquiry Report No. 17
Length: 536 pages
Terms of reference
Details forthcoming
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
