✨ Commerce Act Control Decisions
16 FEBRUARY 2010 NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 16
(ii) publish the reasons for not making a control declaration in the New Zealand Gazette, on the Internet, and in any other manner (if any) that the Commission considers appropriate.
Before making a declaration of control, the Commission is required under section 57I(1) of Part 4A (repealed) as applied by section 54N, to:
(a) publish its intention to make a declaration and invite interested persons to give their views on the matter; and
(b) give a reasonable opportunity to interested persons to give those views; and
(c) have regard to those views.
Identification of threshold breaches
The Commission identified 18 distribution businesses, shown in Table 1, as having breached one or more thresholds at the 2008/09 assessment.
Table 1: Breaches at the 31 March 2009 assessment
| EDB | 2008/09 |
|---|---|
| Price | |
| Alpine Energy | Breach |
| Centralines | Breach |
| Counties Power | |
| Eastland Network | Breach |
| Electra | |
| Electricity Ashburton | Breach |
| Horizon Energy | Breach |
| Mainpower | Breach |
| Marlborough Lines | Breach |
| Nelson Electricity | Breach |
| Network Tasman | |
| Northpower | |
| OtagoNet | Breach |
| Powerco | |
| The Power Company | Breach |
| Top Energy | Breach |
| Wellington Electricity | |
| Westpower | Breach |
Decisions Not to Declare Control
The Commission has determined that it is consistent with section 52A of the Act to not publish a notice of intention to declare control under Part 4A in respect of electricity distribution services supplied by those electricity distribution businesses contained in Table 1, for the following reasons:
Alpine Energy Limited
- The price path threshold breach during the 2008/09 assessment period is fully explained by the difference between actual and budgeted pass-through costs;
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