Our responsibility

Our own responsibility consists in :

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• emphasizing what we believe could contradict sustainable development objectives in the management of environmental services. Thus, traditional remuneration for the provision of water based on volumes supplied must change to incorporate the objective to reduce water consumption, without disturbing the economic balance of an activity for which costs are very largely fixed;
  
  
• highlighting the best organizational frameworks that we see in our international experience.
  For example, in the United Kingdom, an operator is made responsible for managing waste flows produced by a region, and for making changes to the system by significantly developing recycling and energy recovery.
  In the long term, such integrated contracts will enable increased responsibility and efficiency, unequalled elsewhere in the European Union.
  
  
• recommending research on the breakdown of responsibilities between delegating authorities and operators.
  In the field of urban transportation, integrated management of the different segments and the implementation of genuine inter-modal means have become an entirely separate business distinguished from the simple management of transportation means. Its increasing complexity justifies the organising public authority in delegating this work to a specialised private manager. We are experimenting with new responsibilities based on this logic in contracts in the Netherlands and the United States.
  Responsibilities granted to private operators in developed countries have been increasingly broken down into segments and contract durations have been shortened over the last two decades, due to competition law.Nevertheless, in the developing world, it is generally accepted that the need to develop basic and essential services justifies longer contract duration and broader managerial responsibilities.