Regulacja na rzecz konkurencji w wybranych sektorach sieciowych
Regulation for competition in selected net-work industries

Summary/Abstract: For many decades the network industries, such as Electricity and Telecommunication Services, have operated in a monopolistic market structure. The ineffectiveness of such a market structure has resulted in a need for the implementation of a new policy for creating competitiveness in Poland and the European Union. The European Union puts the creation of competition policy by the state as one of key priorities, required for the provision of socio-economic development. Literature is not consistent as to the positive impact of regulation on social welfare. Network industries, such as Electricity and Telecommunication Services, are specific, because they largely determine the safety of the state and the level of its development, so the processes of creating their competitiveness are implemented slowly here. In the early days the state regulatory policy consisted of overseeing the markets surveyed by an independent government, and now on creating the necessary conditions for the development of competition. That state policy has already resulted in some tangible results. The subject of analysis in this article is how such adjustments are implemented for competitiveness in the Network Industries, what are the resulting consequences and how the level of market concentration has changed. The attention of the authors focused on issues related to the process of deconcentration of the market, which used Herfindahl-Hirschman Index. This article investigates both the empirical study of the effects of the policy in Poland in each of the examined markets and compares the effects of such a regulatory policy in both examined sectors, Common features and differences are presented.

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