PPPs IN THE EUROPEAN UNION. GUIDELINES FOR ROMANIA?

Several starting points could be used in an analysis on the possible routes for developing Public-Private Partnership1 (henceforth PPP) projects in Romania, regarded as an alternative financing mechanism for public infrastructure. This paper follows a “classical” approach, with a focus on the pros and cons of the Public-Private Partnership concept, legal forms met in the European acquis, the Eurostat view on such projects in terms of the statistical classification of assets, financing and policy directions in the European Union and lessons learnt for practitioners in Romania, while taking into account the recent developments of the PPP market in the European Unio