Legal Framework for / and Examples of Empresas Mixtas

Argentina

Legal Framework:

• Code of Commerce
• Ley 11.672 (and amendments)
• Ley 23.696/89
• Ley 20.705/74

Water and Sanitation Concession Model:

• Concession model

Additional Information:

• Paper "Las Sociedades de Economía Mixta y las Empresas del Estado en la Legislación Argentina"

Brazil

Legal Framework:

• Brazilian Constitution: "Sociedades de Economia Mista" financial fiscalization articles 70, and 71, II, creation by law article 37, XIX, legal framework article 173, § 1º, creation of subsidiary enterprise article 37, XX, infrastructure and provision service concessions article 22, XXVII,
• Decreto-lei 200/67
• Lei 6.404/76

Water and Sanitation Enterprises information:

• Official Diary: This link contains administrative acts related to the provision of water services such as summaries of water and sanitation contracts

Colombia

Legal Framework:

• Law 489/98, capitulo XIV
• Law 550/99
• Commerce Code article 461, titulo VII

Water and Sanitation Enterprises:

• Sistema Unico de Información de Servicios Públicos: General information regarding water sector and water and sanitation enterprises

Additional Information:

• Régimen aplicable a las sociedades de economía mixta.

Costa Rica

Legal Framework:

• Costa Rica does not have specific legal Framework related to "Empresas Mixtas". However, they have laws that authorize this kind of regime for specific enterprises such as: Líneas Aéreas Costarricenses, Refinadora Costarricense de Petróleos y Radiográfica Nacional. Costa Rica does not have a "Empresas Mixtas" regime for water and sanitation sector.

El Salvador

Legal Framework:

• Decree 2336/57

Peru

Legal Framework:

• Decree 1031/2008
• Law 26887/1997: This is the General Corporation Law that addresses the public limited company that is used as the legal framework to "Empresas Mixtas"

Water and Sanitation Enterprises

• Superintendencia Nacional de Servicios de Saneamiento (SUNASS)

Additional Information

• Policymaker: National Direction of Sanitation - Ministry of Housing, Infrastructure and Sanitation

Spain

Legal Framework:

• Joint Ventures and Industrial and Regional development Enterprises Taxation Regime Law 18/82

Water and Sanitation Enterprises information:

• Spanish association of Water control and treatment enterprises

Uruguay

Legal Framework:

• Constitution Article 188
• Law 14.623/77
• Law 15.903
• Law 16.211
• Law 16.246: "Empresas mixtas" in ports

Additional Information:

• "Agua: La construcción social de un derecho humano": Paper regarding water and human rights in Latin America: This paper contains to legal analysis in water matters in Uruguay.