PPP Association Proclamation

In accord with the intentions of Czech government and the core of PPP projects, assuming the public and private sectors partnerships, the Association for the support of public and private sector was established in the Czech Republic in 2004 (thereinafter “PPP Association”), under the terms stipulated by Act No. 83/1990 Coll. on citizens associating as the association of natural and juristic persons, active in the area of investments and services supplied for the public sector, in its effective version. The main aims of PPP Association are the support and development of investments and services by means of PPP in the Czech Republic.

PPP Association will actively participate in forming the conditions and rules, helping to achieve transparent principles of these kinds of investments and services. It will also advance protection of good morals and strengthening of general confidence in effective forms of the public and private sector co-operation. For this purpose and in accord with generally binding legal rules, PPP Association directives and methodical EU strategies, PPP Association will help its members and the public sector to create a file of rules, principles and steps directed at the successful implementation of the PPP projects.

By means of mutual co-operation of all members and in accord with the aims stated in the regulations, the main intention of the PPP Association is the supply of following activities:

• Supply of up-to-date information from the areas of PPP legislation and methods
• Initiation of legislative and organizational presumptions for PPP in the Czech Republic, promotion of this form in media and their presentation on the PPP Association web sites
• Co-action with central bodies of the state administration and Czech Parliament in the PPP area
• Active participation in the preparation, elaboration and evaluation of the draft pilot PPP projects
• Exchange of theoretical knowledge and practical experience with the public sector, directed at the PPP development
• Methodical and coordination help during the preparation of regional and municipal strategies in the PPP area
• Organization and coordination of members’ participation in PPP conferences and seminars and concentration of material from those negotiations in the PPP Association library
• Common interests support of the PPP Association members in relation with national, foreign and international bodies, institutions and associations
• Formation of presumptions for educational, consultancy and editorial activities of the members within PPP
• Concentration of information, study and statistical concepts within PPP including case studies and sample contracts
• Finding contacts and experience exchange with foreign institutions and organizations, interested in the PPP problems