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

在日本电信、电力、燃气等各个公用事业领域放松管制的巨大压力下，日本对公用事业的传统法律观念和法律框架进行了部分根本性的、部分逐步的改革。本研究的成果在于：1.传统的法律观念和法律框架应该转变为一个新的法律概念和框架，其基础是开放和合理地进入占主导地位的企业，以及新接受的普遍服务理念的社会保险。2.日本反垄断法的作用迅速增强，并将越来越大，以规范企业的各种反竞争行为，特别是占主导地位的反竞争行为。从这个意义上说，(1)反垄断法规制的标准应该是在认真考虑所有行业的现实和当前情况，包括潜在的竞争压力的基础上明确展示的。(2)应制定公用事业管制与反垄断法管制之间一般衔接的法律原则，以取代现行JFTC的做法。(3)JFTC的权力和资源也应增加，以调整上述法律情况，包括设立公用事业行业特别工作组，对JFTC以外资源的使用进行程序改革，并授权JFTC的调查工具。

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.