This section contains all current and closed Commission regulatory projects. This includes determinations, reports, inquiries, studies and disclosures relating to telecommunications, electricity lines, gas pipelines, airports and dairy.
The Commerce Commission has a role under the Grocery Industry Competition Act 2023 to promote competition in this industry. The Act allows for the Commission to issue disclosure standards, a tool that compels specified parties to supply information to the Commission (among other things), for the purposes of enabling the Commission to monitor competition and efficiency in the grocery industry and to ensure that sufficient information is readily available to the Commission to assess whether the purpose of the Act is being met.
With New Zealand transitioning away from copper-based services, including those delivered by Spark’s public switched telephone network (PSTN), consumers will be required to switch to alternative access technologies such as fibre, hybrid fibre-coaxial cable, wireless broadband and mobile, in order to retain a telecommunications service.
The Commission is required to review each industry dispute resolution scheme at least once every 3 years and provide any recommendations to the scheme provider on how to improve the scheme.
Prior to the next regulatory period beginning on 1 January 2025, the Commission must consider whether there are reasonable grounds to start a fibre fixed line access service (FFLAS) deregulation review under s 210(3) of the Act.
Mobile Termination Access Services (MTAS) are wholesale services that a mobile network operator needs to enable its subscribers to communicate (either by way of a voice call or SMS) with subscribers of another mobile network.
We have responsibilities for monitoring competition and efficiency in the retail payment system. Our focus is on improving transparency and understanding of the system, including to inform where to focus our efforts to deliver long-term benefits for consumers and merchants.
On 20 November 2024, we published our final decisions for the default price quality path for electricity distribution businesses (DPP4), beginning 1 April 2025.
