Private water fights back in Portugal
- From: Vol 12, Issue 2 (February 2011)
- Category: General
- Region: Europe
- Country: Portugal
- Related Companies: AEPSA and Aguas de Portugal
The Portuguese private sector claims the municipal water sector is breaking competition rules. It is taking the issue to the European Commission.
AEPSA, the organisation which represents Portugal’s private sector water companies, will ask the European Commission to investigate whether contracting procedures for Portugal’s municipal water services break European free market legislation.
AEPSA’s specific complaint concerns so-called public-public contracts introduced in 2009 for the provision of integral water cycle provision to multi-municipal regions.
These allow for the creation of ...
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