"Reformation of Public Utilities Law And Interface between It and Competition Policy Under Deregulatory Era"

在日本电信、电力、燃气等公用事业领域放松管制改革的巨大压力下，日本国内有关公用事业的传统法律的概念和框架也发生了一些根本性和渐进性的变革。本研究的结果希望强调：1.传统的法律的概念和框架应该转变为一种新的概念和框架，这种新的概念和框架应该建立在对主导企业开放和合理的准入以及新接受的普遍服务概念的社会保险的基础上。日本反垄断法在规制企业尤其是支配企业的各种反竞争行为方面的作用正在迅速增强，并将越来越大。从这个意义上说，（1）反垄断法规制的标准应该是经过对包括潜在竞争压力在内的所有行业的真实的现状进行仔细考虑的结果。(2)应制定公用事业监管与反垄断法监管之间一般接口的法律的原则，以取代目前日本公平贸易委员会的做法。(3)为了调整上述法律的状况，还应增加公平贸易委员会的权力和资源，包括设立公用事业行业特别工作组，改革使用公平贸易委员会以外资源的程序，并赋予公平贸易委员会解释工具权力。

Under great pressure of Japanese deregulatory reforms in field of each public utility industries including telecommunication, electric and gas power industry and so on, traditional legal concepts and frameworks about public utility industries has been reformed in part radically and another part gradually even in Japan. The result of this research project would like to emphasize1.The traditional legal concepts and frameworks should change to a new one that is based on open and reasonable access to the dominant firm, also on social insurance of newly accepted universal service concept. And2.The role of Japanese Anti-monopoly law has been rapidly increased and would increase more and more in order to regulate each anti-competitive behaviors of firms, especially those of dominant. In this sense, (1) the criterions for anti-monopoly law regulator should be definitely showed as a result of careful consideration taking real and current all of industries situations including potential competitive pressures. (2) a legal doctrine for general interface between public utility regulation and Anti-monopoly law regulation should be developed to override the current JFTC's practice. (3) Powers and resources of JFTC should also increase in order to adjust legal situations above-mentioned including creation special task forces on public utility industries, procedural reforms about using resources outside of JFTC and empowering investigatory tools of JFTC.