ENFORCEMENT POLICY AND LEGISLATIVE DEVELOPMENTS
The Swiss Federal Council will submit to the Parliament a new proposal for the liberalization of the electricity market over a six-year period as of the entry into force of the new Act on the Electricity Market, which is expected to take place on January 1, 2001. As of January 1, 2001, the market would be liberalized for the undertakings which use more than 20 giga Watt/hour; three years later, the threshold would be lowered to 10 giga Watt/hour; and the market would be entirely liberalized on January 1, 2007.
ADMINISTRATIVE AND JUDICIAL DECISIONS
Anti-Competitive Practices
Billposting On May 25, 1999, the FCC issued a recommendation proposing that long-term leases for billposting spaces be put out to competitive tender by communes. To date, most long-term leases are negotiated through single tendering which leads to de facto monopolies. The FCC held that single tendering of long-term leases would
