Federico Cuello, permanent representative of the DR to the United Nations and the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, urges passage of the Market Ordering Code in an article in El Caribe newspaper today. He said it is urgent this code be approved along with the Electricity Bill. He says this code would eliminate oligopolistic conditions that benefit power distributors to the detriment of consumers. Cuello says the market code would prohibit abuse by the distributors and believes distributors should not be allowed to generate more than 20% of the total market. He prefers the separation of functions by the players in the market. He emphasizes that conditions must be created so there is fair competition in the marketplace.
