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LEGAL ANALYSIS OF MONOPOLY AND COMPETITION IN THE ENERGY MARKET, WITH AN EMPHASIS ON GAS AND ELECTRICITY INDUSTRIES; CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors
Seyyed Nasrollah Ebrahimi 1
Mahmood Jafari Chaleshtori 2
1 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
2 L.L.M. at International Economic and Commercial Law, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
10.22059/jlq.2015.55024
Abstract
Competition law is known as one of the factors promoting the welfare and economic efficiency in a market economy. But in an economy all industries and all sectors of the Industry may not have the ability to accept the competition, in which the industries or the sectors are known as "Natural Monopolies". So it is said that Energy Industry is considered as one of the natural monopolies and therefore should be entirely in the hands of government. This paper, in addition to reviewing the basic concepts, attempts to address the issue that whether energy sector has acceptability and capacity for competition and how we can apply that. If the answer is positive, then which sector might have that possibility, and basically the promise is absolutely correct that the energy sector, particularly electricity and gas are known to be natural monopolies. This paper aims to both present the answers to the foregoing questions and study the infrastructure, challenges and opportunities of entering the competition in the energy market.
Keywords
Competition law
energy market
essential facility
gas and electricity industry
natural monopoly
Regulation

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Law Quarterly
Volume 45, Issue 3 - Serial Number 3
Autumn 2015
Pages 361-378