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 Commission is required to consider whether reasonable grounds exist for a conducting a FFLAS deregulation review prior to the commencement of PQP2 in 2025.
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 current default price quality path for electricity distribution businesses (DPP3) is due to expire on 31 March 2025 and we must make a decision by 30 November 2024 on the next default price-quality path to apply (DPP4).
The Commission is reviewing the productivity and efficiency of EDBs. This will be an ongoing project with the intention of embedding periodic assessments and publications on EDBs’ productivity/efficiency within the Commission’s performance and understanding function.
As part of its grocery responsibilities the Commission is required to review the operation and effectiveness of the Grocery Supply Code, with the first review due by 28 September 2025.
