Public Private Partnership (PPP)
Competence Centre

PPP means a partnership between private investors and public tasks – with the objective of less impact on public budgets, or public entities (states, regions, local government etc.), who have no or not enough financial manoeuvring space; they can (let) launch anyway infrastructure investment. PPP contain often a complicated web of interests and financial circumstances, which must be dealt with individually in most of the cases and cannot be considered to be solved in a standardized way.

PPP are, however, as well webs of relationships between the state and private investors or donors with the objective to set up and/or run a public institution. The definition of a PPP therefore is sometimes very large.

Examples

• Transport
  Road, bridges and tunnel construction; construction and/or operation of railways, ports, ferry lines, airports and air traffic connections, buses, bus line operations, streets and passages, agricultural lanes, etc.

• Energy and Environment
  Decentralised power plants (water); wind, solar, biomass, geothermal or tide power generation, networks, environment measuring stations, stations for protections of species, (ecological) tourism projects etc.

• Social, cultural and administrative Infrastructure
  Schools, professional training institutions, universities, training centres, kindergartens, hospitals and medical stations, housing, social stations, leisure centres, museums, theatres, concert houses, sports installations of all kind, set-up and operation of administration buildings, etc.

There is no real limit for PPP projects. Even very small projects can be run according to PPP principles. Altogether, PPP projects are very attractive as a framework for investment in particular in countries who could not afford the infrastructure themselves

Synergy without boarders

With PPP projects synergy can be created across national (CBC = cross border cooperation) or other community borders. Often these projects are (co-)financed by the EU programme INTERREG. By this new forces can come to power in formerly divided regions.

What LIBERTAS can contribute

LIBERTAS has worked in the first insertion of PPP in different countries – therefore we also know which mistakes in the continuation of this process should be avoided. Our experience is fed by previous legal activity.

Since the start of 2006, LIBERTAS – European Institute GmbH runs a Competence Centre where we take care of:

• Introduction of PPP principles in legislation and administration (national, regional and local level)
• Introductory trainings for legislation, administration, financial institutions and economic sectors (associations, chambers, construction industry etc.)
• Raising awareness, elaboration of strategies of preventing protests and “making ownership” of citizens
• Building institutional capacity
• Holistic support with the implementation of PPP projects
• Conception and company of PPP pilot projects

Further informationWeitere Informationen
Please write your PPP problem in short to LIBERTAS or just call us. The PPP Competence Centre is run by: Hans-Juergen Zahorka, zahorka@libertas-institut.com, tel. +49 7471 9849960.

Country Models and Information

• Claudia Reim, Administrative Scientist (University of Potsdam), wrote an interesting short study on
  “Challenges to Public Private Partnerships: The Example of the London Underground PPPs”. more…

• Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) in Slovenia
  Public-Private Partnership Act (EN, SI)

• Public-Private Partnerships (PPP)
  Useful Model for Georgia to Implement Infrastructure Development Projects
  Georgia Times 16.9.05

• Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) im Kosovo
  A PowerPoint-Presentation on PPP and its opportunities in Kosovo. EN, Albanian/Sqip
  Press: Express 17.8.2005 (Albanian/Sqip)

Kazakhstan
Some information about PPP, suitable also for the local level (in russian language) download