Water supply contract in the context of environmental safety: Features of legal regulation

Abstract

The article focuses on the special nature of water supply contract and its legal regulation. It is known that civil law regulates various relations in the sphere of property and other non-property things. It acts as a separate branch, which has a certain independence, as well as a certain specificity of functioning. Civil law is based on concluded agreements. It is a system of property and personal non-property relations regulated by civil legislation on the basis of legally binding contracts. Contracts are one of the most important sources of civil regulation and form a fundamental part of civil legislation. One of the most important types of civil law contracts is the «contract of water supply and sewerage». Water supply contract is an agreement between the organization managing water supply and sewerage system (Vodokanal) and the user, under which Vodokanal undertakes to provide the customer with drinking and technical water through a connected centralized water supply network. The customer is obliged to comply with the regime of water resources consumption and to pay for them on time, to comply with the contractual regulations on the volume and quality of waste water discharged into the sewerage system. According to the Article 432 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation: a contract is considered concluded if the parties, in the required form, have reached an agreement on all material terms of the contract. The contract specifies the volume and quality of services provided, tariffs for water supply, the procedure for calculations, the responsibility of the parties and the terms of termination of the contract. As the object of research the authors have defined the peculiarities of the legal nature of the water supply contract under the conditions of deterioration of the situation with environmental safety. The purpose of the work is the study of the legal nature of the contract of water supply and its civil-law regulation in accordance with the current legislation of the Russian Federation in view of the special importance of water supply for environmental safety.