Public-Private Partnerships and Concessions in the EU

Edited by Piotr Bogdanowicz, Associate Professor, Warsaw University and Counsel, Clifford Chance, Poland, Roberto Caranta, Full Professor of Administrative Law, Law Department, University of Turin, Italy and Pedro Telles, Associate Professor, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

• Contents:Foreword viiiTable of cases xi1 Regulation of PPP and concessions in European Unionlaw – different but equal? 1Piotr Bogdanowicz2 An intellectual history of concessions and PPP law 17Roberto Caranta and Paolo Patrito3 Concessions and PPPs in Denmark 37Carina Risvig Hamer4 Public-private partnerships and concessions in France 52Nicolas Gabayet5 PPP and concessions in Germany 71Christoph Krönke6 PPPs and concessions in Italy: lots of good intentions,hindered by a highly complicated regulation 89Katia Bonsignore and Mario E. Comba7 Public-private partnerships and concessions in Poland:the story of the ugly duckling? 114Piotr Bogdanowicz8 PPPs and concessions in Portugal 129Pedro Cerqueira Gomes9 Concessions and PPP in Romania 146Roxana Vornicu and Dacian C. Dragos10 Works and service concession contracts: the way to boostPPP in Spain? 168Patricia Valcárcel Fernández11 The regulation of public-private partnerships and concessioncontracts in the UK 189Pedro Telles and Aris Christidis12 Challenges with concessions and public-private partnershipswithin the EU and national legal regimes 207Pedro TellesIndex 215

'Public-Private Partnerships and Concessions are a crucial tool for organizing public services and delivering much needed infrastructure works. However these instruments and their legal character remain a topic for discussion. This book is therefore timely. The authors discuss the origins, its characteristics and include nine chapters providing country specific in-depth analysis. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in Public-Private Partnerships and Concessions in the European Union. Including subtile convergences and divergences this book illustrates the growing importance of comparative legal research in Europe.'--Steven Van Garsse, University of Hasselt and University of Antwerp, Belgium'This volume highlights the problematic issues in the regulation of Public-Private Partnerships and Concessions within the European Union. This well-structured collection displays historical development of relevant law, nine national chapters as well as one comparative law chapter. The authors have succeeded in giving a clear account of how the two overlapping concepts of Public-Private Partnerships and Concessions lack sufficient indication as to their distinctions and potential differences in their regulation. This is an important addition to the literature on government contracting that offers valuable contributions to public procurement law research.'--Marta Andhov, University of Copenhagen, Denmark