Questione giuridica chiave
Whether pre-2008 individually negotiated electricity supply contracts mean a large customer has already exercised its right to network access and cannot return to basic supply.
Decisione estratta
Pre-2008 supply contracts do not, by themselves, count as exercise of the statutory right to network access under the Electricity Supply Act.
Motivazione estratta
The statutory term 'network access' refers to the access regulated by the new law. Treating old contracts as an exercise of that right would give them retroactive effect and improperly exclude large consumers from the phased liberalization scheme.