✨ Commerce Commission Notice
9 SEPTEMBER 2005 NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 156 3899
Intention to declare control
Unison Networks Limited (Unison) is a distribution business which owns and operates distribution networks in the Hawke’s Bay, Taupo and Rotorua regions. Unison is a limited liability company wholly owned by the Hawke’s Bay Power Consumers’ Trust.
The Commission has assessed Unison against the initial thresholds set from 6 June 2003, and has identified Unison as having breached the price path threshold at the first assessment date (6 September 2003) and both thresholds at the second assessment date (31 March 2004).
In addition, the Commission has assessed Unison against the reset thresholds set from 1 April 2004, and has identified Unison as having breached both the price path and quality thresholds at the first assessment date under the reset thresholds (31 March 2005).
The Commission has now formed an intention to make a declaration of control in respect of electricity distribution services supplied by Unison and is inviting interested persons to give their views on the matter.
Time and manner for interested persons to give their views
The Commission notes that this is the first occasion that this step in the regulatory process for electricity lines businesses has been reached (i.e. the publication of an intention to make a declaration of control) and has therefore provided a timetable to provide interested persons with sufficient time to prepare to give their views.
The Commission will shortly release a paper setting out the reasons for its intention to declare control, which will be based on the Commission’s preliminary conclusions from the inquiry and analysis undertaken to date. There will be a submission period on the paper and a conference following its release, in order to give interested persons a reasonable opportunity to give their views. The due date for written submissions is 5pm, Friday 21 October 2005, with a conference planned for the week commencing Monday 7 November 2005. Cross-submissions following the conference will be due by 5pm, Friday 25 November 2005.
Any comments and questions on this notice may be sent by email to: electricity@comcom.govt.nz; or by mail to Network Performance Group, Commerce Commission, P.O. Box 2351, Wellington; or by facsimile (04) 924 3700.
Submission requirements are:
- electronic copies of submissions should ideally be sent in PDF format, although Word is equally acceptable. Written or non PC-generated submissions will be scanned by Commission staff and converted to PDF;
- a single hard copy should only be supplied if it is not possible to provide submissions electronically. Submitters need only staple in the top left corner, as spiral or spine bound copies will be unbound for ease of producing additional copies if required;
- all submissions will be published on the Commission’s web site (the Commission recognises that there will be instances where information may genuinely be confidential. The Commission requires parties to provide a “public version” of confidential material, which at least conveys the thrust of the material (or
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