Competition Commission:
Guidance on the Rules for the Conduct and Disposal of Appeals in Energy Code Modification Cases

Consultation Draft

Introduction

The Competition Commission (the Commission) indicated in its consultation draft on the rules of procedure for appeals in energy code modification cases (the Energy Code Modification Rules) that it would additionally seek views on some complementary draft guidance. The Commission has now published a consultation draft of the guidance and seeks views on it. The guidance is designed to assist parties to these new appeals to understand the Commission’s procedure.

Downloads

Competition Commission: Guide to appeals in Energy Code Modification Cases

Press Release

Responses

You can respond to this consultation:

by email to:

by post to:

Susan Maunsell
Competition Commission
Victoria House
Southampton Row
London
WC1B 4AD

Enquiries to

email as above or telephone 020 7271 0287 /fax 020 7271 0203

Closing date

Responses should be received by 28 February 2005.

Date of implementation

It is anticipated that the appeal provisions of the Act will be given effect on or shortly after 1 April 2005.

Background to the appeal jurisdiction

See the consultation document on the Rules themselves.

The guidance

The guidance should be considered alongside the Rules.

We shall welcome comments on whether the guidance properly covers all the material which a party to these appeals would want to be aware of and whether any important topics have been neglected.

A particular practical point we should like views on is whether parties and their representatives are likely to prefer to use electronic media for the exchange of documents and if so whether they would wish to use encryption either routinely or occasionally

How to respond

See above for contacts and final date.

When responding please state whether you are responding as an individual or representing the views of an organisation. If responding on behalf of an organisation, please make it clear where applicable whom the organisation represents and how the views of members were assembled.

Copies of this consultation document are available from the Commission’s website: www.competition-commission.org.uk under Current consultations.

Confidentiality

The Commission may wish to publish your response. If you do not want all or part of your response, or your name, made public, please state this clearly in the response. Any confidentiality disclaimer that may be generated by your organisation’s IT system or included as a general statement in your fax cover sheet will be taken to apply only to information in your response for which confidentiality has been requested.

A summary of the consultation and outcome will be provided by end March 2005 on www.competition-commission.org.uk and both the final rules and guidance will be published.

Note by CC 31 March 2005

The implementation timetable has been delayed and we will provide a summary and publish the rules and guidance as soon as possible. When we do so we will post an alert on the home page of the web site.