Consumer protection: a licensing or seal-of-approval system? The case of Dutch small consumers of electricity
by E.F. Ten Heuvelhof, Helen D. Stout
International Journal of Technology, Policy and Management (IJTPM), Vol. 5, No. 3, 2005

Abstract: In order to implement the EU Electricity Directive (96/92), The Netherlands completely opened its electricity market last 1 July 2004. From then on, small consumers became free to select the supplier of their choice. The question this article examines is whether a licensing system best reflects the special nature of the electricity industry, given the institutional transformation it has undergone and is still undergoing. The authors argue that a seal-of-approval system would reflect it better.

Online publication date: Mon, 19-Dec-2005

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