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.
See our four major regulatory projects and the key consultation points for 2019 here.
Recent amendments to the Telecommunications Act mean that the treatment of broadcasting services revenue in the Telecommunications Development Levy (TDL) is changing.
The Act allows us to specify points of interconnection (POIs) which are places in wholesale networks where responsibility for fibre services is handed over from a fibre provider to other commercial service providers.
We assess electricity distributors asset management practices to understand their current practices and improve their performance through disseminating good practice; both in terms of asset management practices and the disclosure of those practices within the electricity distributors asset management plan (AMP).
The Commission uses specified instructions and templates to get the information we need to make our annual Telecommunications Development Levy (TDL) determination.
Chorus and the Local Fibre Companies’ have Deeds of Open Access Undertakings (Fibre Deeds) given under the Telecommunications Act 2001 (Act). The undertakings requires them to provide a point-to-multipoint layer 1 fibre access service (PON Fibre Access Service) from 1 January 2020 for area 1 of the governments Ultra-Fast Broadband initiative.
In December 2018 we commenced a market study looking into the factors that may affect competition for the supply of retail petrol and diesel used for land transport throughout New Zealand.
