Translation of "Entgeltregulierung" in English

The BNetzA is also responsible for regulating infrastructure fees in Germany.

Advisory services on pricing and charging regulation include:

In the segment Telephony this concerns in particular the decisions of the Federal Network Agency for regulation of rates.

Together with PwC’s regulatory experts, they support railway infrastructure companies in questions of regulating charges.

In 2009, the OPAL pipeline was fully exempted from third party access and tariff regulation provisions.

As well, in the scope of cost-based regulation, such an index provides criteria for determining the change of actual costs.

In accordance with the Federal Telecommunications Law (‘TKG’) of 22 June 2004, the network operator must, however, be found to possess significant market power before measures regulating the fee payable can be imposed by RegTP (Sections 10 to 13 TKG).

As far as the DVB-T network is concerned, RegTP has not yet, however, defined the relevant markets, with the result that the existence of significant market power, which is necessary for the fees to be regulated, has still not been established.

Effective access (by means of “local loop unbundling”) and price regulation at wholesale level has been essential as a means of fostering the development of competition in the downstream markets, where alternative operators depend on local loop access to provide their services.

The implementation of functional or voluntary separation in accordance with Articles 13a or 13b of Directive 19/2002/EC (Access Directive) respectively should be duly taken into account in the assessment of the appropriateness of not imposing price regulation on next generation networks.

Furthermore, Germany should take the necessary steps to amend the pension cost relief based on the pension subsidy and the price regulation with a view to abolish the comparative advantage.

Since its launch in 2011, OPAL has been to a 100% exempt from EU internal energy market rules on third party access and tariff regulation.

According to EU law, exemptions from the EU gas rules on third party access, regulated tariffs and unbundling can be granted subject to the Commission's approval in order to enable new investments which would not take place if the standard regulatory provisions were to be applied in full.

The tariffs have a considerable impact on consumers’ phone bills and are therefore subject to price regulation by the national regulatory authorities.

The 10% reduction in the basic amount of the fine to take account of the regulation of charges by RegTP is therefore insufficient.

We assist you in complying with price and access regulation. We calculate key regulatory figures, such as access prices, price caps and WACC.

The intention of the tariff regulation for the use of electricity and gas networks is an effective, fair and discrimination-free network access and thus the regulation of transport and supply of energy.

PwC also provides support for businesses on pricing and compensation regulations, such as audits carried out in accordance with pricing laws.

The removal of all legal barriers to market entry for profitable passenger rail services, as well as ownership unbundling of vertically integrated railway companies and/or more competences for regulatory bodies to control access to infrastructure and rail infrastructure charges, are necessary but not sufficient conditions for more competition.

On the contrary, environmental policies seek to secure pre-emptive measures as part of the water services tasks and to increase the importance of these measures in the context of rate regulation.

This judgement does not, however, preclude the use of dampening measures of competition policy, price regulation, universal service and possibly social policy.