Legal Relationships between Public Service Operators, Users and Third Parties

Abstract

In this article, we analyse the legal nature of the relations between the local public administration authorities or, as the case may be, between the intercommunity developments associations with the purpose of public utilities and users. Law no. 51/2006 on community services of public utilities establishes that they are subject to legal norms of public or private law, as the case may be. Therefore, the objectives of this paper are to identify the two categories of legal norms applicable to public utilities in the Community, as well as the modalities for regulating legal relations between public utility operators and users of these services, based on the analysis of legal texts, doctrine and jurisprudence.

Keywords

• public services; users; legal relations; public service contract