对公众获取公用企业信息的法律分析

规制缓和、引入竞争已经成为国际上公用企业改革的共识,同时其也对政府监管与公众参与提出了更高的要求。如在公用企业调价的听证工作中,信息不对称导致作为消费者的公众处于信息获取的劣势地位,消费者代表往往无法提出有说服力的意见。针对《政府信息公开条例》第37条的规定,实践之中产生了一些公众申请公用企业信息公开的事件或案例,引发了诸多的争议,因此有必要对公用企业是否适用该条例,公用企业如何更好地履行信息公开的义务,以及公众如何有效获取信息等问题进行深入探讨。

Legal Analysis of the Public Getting Information of Public Utilities

Public utility reform throughout the world comes to a consensus of deregulation and competition fostering,which put forward a higher demand for government supervision and public participation,eg.in the hearing of public utility price adjustment,consumer representative can seldom provide persuasive opinions for information asymmetry.Due to article 37 of Government Information Publicity Regulations,there happen some cases that the public apply for public utility information publicity,which arouse a lot of controversy.Therefore,it is of much necessary to take a profound research on whether the Regulations applies to public utilities,how public utilities fulfill the obligation of information publicity,how the public get information effectively,etc.