EIRP Proceedings, Vol 14, No 1 (2019)

Abstract

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