The Utilities Contracts Regulations 1996

Statistical and other reports

27.—(1) A utility shall each year, by the date notified to it by the Minister, send to the Minister a report specifying the aggregate value (estimated if necessary) of the consideration payable under contracts awarded in the previous year which have been excluded from the operation of these Regulations by regulation 10 (Thresholds) for the purpose of carrying out the activities in each Part of Schedule 1 in which the utility is specified.

(2) A utility when requested shall for the purpose of informing the Commission send to the Minister a report—

(a) containing such information as the Minister may from time to time require in respect of a particular contract (including contracts excluded or exempted from the application of all or some of these Regulations by regulations 6 to 10);

(b) specifying which of its activities it considers are not activities specified in the Part of Schedule 1 in which the utility is specified, or are activities outside the territory of the Communities not involving the physical use of a network or geographical area within the Communities; and

(c) specifying the categories of goods, works or services it considers comprise the goods, works or services which it acquires in order to sell, hire or provide them to another person, but which it does not have a special or exclusive right to sell, hire or provide and which other persons are free to sell, hire or provide under the same conditions.

(3) A utility may indicate that any of the information included in a report sent to the Minister pursuant to paragraph 2(c) above is of a sensitive commercial nature, and require that it be not published.