i. Availability of services
ii. Affordability
iii. Accessibility
iv. Sustainability
v. Quality of Service
The regulatory fees are paid on the regulator’s account, as it is stipulated in article N° 35 of the law establishing RURA.
The essence of market regulation is to find responses to all forms of Market failures. So, RURA does not enforce failure, but finds solution to failures using regulator tools.
The role of the regulator is to find responses to all forms of market failures, among which market structure failure is addressed through appropriate measures to increase competition coupled with price and quality of service regulation.
Ways of promoting competition at the policy level:
· Liberalize the market
· Eliminate barriers to entry in the market
· Prohibit anticompetitive behavior
· Provide different kinds of incentives where required
· Take necessary measures for market transparency
The regulator plays the leading role in designing and enforcing rules governing the regulated sectors.
The article 41 of the Law establishing the Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Authority stipulates that “The Regulatory Board may designate any public utility organization as a dominant organization. Dominant organizations are subject to the controls set out in the law relating to that sector of public utility. Such designations made under the provisions of this article take into account the natural person or organization’s ability to influence market conditions, its turnover relative to the size of its market, its control of user access to the relevant utility, its access to financial resources and its experience in providing the relevant utility”.
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ENERGY |
Law No 21/2011 of 23/06/2011 governing electricity in Rwanda
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