EUROPEAN COMMISSION SIGNALS WATER PROCUREMENT POLICIES IN ITALY CASE
June 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Commission has indicated the depth of control it requires from local authorities over a water company for such a utility to be considered an 'in house' service and so free of public procurement open tendering procedures. In a case involving Acquedotto Lucano, a water company owned by local authorities in the southern Italy region of Basilicata, the Commission had insisted on three conditions freeing the utility from having to compete for its owners' water business:*That its area of water operations was limited to Basilicata;*That ...
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