REGULATION AND DEREGULATION
- From: Vol 5, Issue 5 (May 2004)
- Category: Need to know
- Region: Unspecified
- Country: United Kingdom
- Related Companies: Fitch, Moody’s, Northumbrian Water and Standard & Poor’s
The environment councillor for the northeastern Italian region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Gianfranco Moretton, has announced that concessions to run water services in the region’s five ATOs will be awarded through public tenders.
Moretton chose this option over the other two offered by the Italian system - awarding the licence "in-house" to the local municipally-owned operator or to a public-private partnership - because it would guarantee "transparency and efficiency", he said.
The local Green Party said Moretton’s "worrying" decision was taken to please private companies and was against the will of most of the ...
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