EU LEGAL CASE MAY PREVENT UTILITY UMBRELLA GROUPS ESCAPING PUBLIC PROCUREMENT RULES
April 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is pushing for umbrella organisations controlled by an alliance of local municipalities to be subject to public procurement procedures when awarding contracts for joint water services. It is threatening European Court of Justice legal action against a consortium of Italian local governments called Autorità d'Ambito Territoriale Ottimale n.2 - Marche Centro Ancona (ATO 2), which has awarded a water services contract to a company Multiservizi, itself owned by the municipalities. They claim the deal is simply an in-house ...
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