Consumer protection: A licensing or seal-of-approval system? the case of Dutch small consumers of electricity

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. Copyright

• View at Publisher
• View at Scopus