荷兰政府日前表示,荷兰将把能源市场全面开放时间推迟6个月,直到2004年7月,以便给电力和天然气公司更多时间准备市场竞争。此前荷兰政府进行的研究表明,明年年初所有电力和天然气公司全部准备好市场竞争难以做到,所以政府决定把能源市场开放时间由1月推迟到7月。经济事务部长在给 The Dutch government recently said that the Netherlands will postpone the full liberalization of the energy market by 6 months until July 2004 in order to allow electricity and gas companies more time to prepare for market competition. Earlier studies by the Dutch government showed that by the beginning of next year, all power and gas companies were fully prepared to compete in the market. As a result, the government decided to postpone energy market opening from January to July. Minister of Economic Affairs gave