Full Description
As public infrastructure, health and other services are being delivered more frequently through Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) and concessions, this timely book explores these complex contractual arrangements involving cooperation between public and private sectors. It considers how PPPs have become increasingly prevalent following the 2008 financial crisis and examines the applicable legal regimes that are still, to a large extent, unclear to many.
Containing in-depth investigation into EU law and comparative national experiences in relation to PPPs and concessions in 7 EU Member States and the UK, the contributions in this incisive book address the weak points in the current legal regime. Chapters analyse the risks faced by contracting authorities in connection to PPPs and concessions while highlighting good practices from different countries that may be considered for wider adoption across the EU.
Public-Private Partnerships and Concessions in the EU will be a key resource for scholars and students of public administrative law and businesses seeking to procure contracts to create PPPs, as well as being of value to practitioners and policy makers at both EU and national levels.
Contributors include: P. Bogdanowicz, K. Bonsignore, R. Caranta, P. Cerqueira Gomes, A. Christidis, M.E. Comba, D.C. Dragos, N. Gabayet, C. Krönke, P. Patrito, C. Risvig Hamer, P. Telles, P. Valcárcel Fernández, R. Vornicu
Contents
Contents:
Foreword viii
Table of cases xi
1 Regulation of PPP and concessions in European Union
law - different but equal? 1
Piotr Bogdanowicz
2 An intellectual history of concessions and PPP law 17
Roberto Caranta and Paolo Patrito
3 Concessions and PPPs in Denmark 37
Carina Risvig Hamer
4 Public-private partnerships and concessions in France 52
Nicolas Gabayet
5 PPP and concessions in Germany 71
Christoph Krönke
6 PPPs and concessions in Italy: lots of good intentions,
hindered by a highly complicated regulation 89
Katia Bonsignore and Mario E. Comba
7 Public-private partnerships and concessions in Poland:
the story of the ugly duckling? 114
Piotr Bogdanowicz
8 PPPs and concessions in Portugal 129
Pedro Cerqueira Gomes
9 Concessions and PPP in Romania 146
Roxana Vornicu and Dacian C. Dragos
10 Works and service concession contracts: the way to boost
PPP in Spain? 168
Patricia Valcárcel Fernández
11 The regulation of public-private partnerships and concession
contracts in the UK 189
Pedro Telles and Aris Christidis
12 Challenges with concessions and public-private partnerships
within the EU and national legal regimes 207
Pedro Telles
Index 215
