Regenerative Energie
The activities of public water supply, waste water treatment and urban solid waste management are public services of a structural nature essential to general well-being, public health and the collective security of communities and businesses and environmental protection. These services should be governed by the principles of universal access, service continuity and quality, and price efficiency and equity. In the cases of public water supply and waste water treatment in particular, these services are natural local or regional monopolies, which requires a form of regulation that overcomes the absence of the self-regulation mechanisms that characterise competitive markets. In the absence of regulation, there are no incentives for operators to improve their efficiency and there is a risk of operators’ interests prevailing over those of users, with the risk that users will receive lower quality services at higher prices.
Waste management policies have evolved in recent years as a result of everincreasing volumes and dangerousness of waste and enhanced public awareness over the topic. In addition, the operation of private funded companies on a monopoly market has created the need for better regulation. IRAR - Instituto Regulador de Águas e Resíduos (Portuguese Institute for the Regulation of Water and Waste) is the Portuguese state institution responsible for the regulation of the public water supply, urban wastewater and solid waste management services. In this role, IRAR has defined a regulatory model for the sector in Portugal, with an emphasis on two major action areas: i) structural regulation of the sector, and ii) regulation of the operators’ behaviour in the sector.
| Copyright: | © IWWG International Waste Working Group |
| Quelle: | Specialized Session D (Oktober 2007) |
| Seiten: | 10 |
| Preis: | € 10,00 |
| Autor: | João Almeida Miguel Nunes |
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Hochlauf der Wasserstoffwirtschaft
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Überblick über und Diskussion der Maßnahmen zum beschleunigten Ausbau
der Wasserstoffinfrastruktur in Deutschland
Die innerstaatliche Umsetzung des Pariser Klimaschutzübereinkommens
- ein Rechtsvergleich
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Like all public international law treaties, the Paris Climate Accords rely on national law for their implementation. The success of the agreement therefore depends, to a large extent, on the stepstaken or not taken by national governments and legislators as well as on the instruments and mechanisms chosen for this task. Against this background, the present article compares different approaches to the implementation of the Paris Agreement, using court decisions as a means to assess their (legal) effectiveness.
Klimaschutzrecht und Erzeugung erneuerbarer Energien in der Schweiz
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Verschachtelte Gesetzgebung unter politischer Ungewissheit