Register of rule and regulation change proposals

Under the Government Policy Statement on Electricity Governance (GPS) the Commission should, wherever possible, use its powers of persuasion and promotion, and provision of information, guidelines and model arrangements to achieve its statutory objectives rather than recommending a rule or regulation change.

In addition, under the Electricity Act, the Commission must, as part of the process for assessing a proposed rule or regulation change, seek to identify all reasonably practicable options and ensure that the objective of any proposed change is unlikely to be satisfactorily achieved by any reasonably practicable means other than the making of the rule or regulation.

The GPS also expects the Commission to prioritise work on objectives and outcomes and the Commission does this through its work programme process and allocates resources accordingly.

All this means that not all proposed rule or regulation changes will be considered within the current Commission work programme and in some cases the proposal will not be progressed at all. However, all proposals are carefully considered and they are recorded and published in the interests of transparency.

Since its inception the Commission has recommended a number of rule changes that have been put into effect.

The Commission maintains a database of all rule and regulation change proposals. At each of its meetings, the EGR Committee considers a report from that database, which sets out a summary of all rule and regulation change proposals being managed by the Commission. The link below is to the latest report considered by the EGR Committee, which reported the status of proposals as at 31 July 2009. The report is split into 3 categories: proposals that have been considered and declined, proposals that are being progressed on the current year's workplan, and those that are under consideration for inclusion on future workplans.

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