In June 2004, France adopted a new PPP contract known as the contrat de partenariat. Most features of this new procurement method have been drawn out from the best practices of the British Private Finance Initiative (PFI) policy. Firstly, long-term service contracts with performance-related...

THE FRENCH CONSEIL DE LA CONCURRENCE AND THE LIBERALISATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES. A CASE-LAW ANALYSIS The purpose of this paper is to underline the role of independent agencies, such as the French Competition Council, in the liberalisation process of public utilities. In a sector like...

Risks allocation in Government contract performance is a key issue for both economic analysis and legal doctrine. However one factor which restrains the dialogue between law and economics (in France at least) is that, while economics develops normative and pure theories of optimal risk...