Country Reports: Portugal, United Kingdom

Country Reports Portugal Environmental Risk on Public-Private Partnerships As it is well known, the corner stone of Public- Private Partnerships (PPP) is the principle of the effective transfer of risk to the private partner. Among us, the mentioned principle is expressly established in article 7 of Decree-Law no. 86/2003, of April 26, 2003, which sets out the Portuguese legal framework of PPP. On the environmental policy, Portugal has been following the trend that is being implemented around the world, since the 70s of last century, to duly protect the environment as a good which deserves a specific legal care. So, as expected, also in the PPP domain, the issue of “environmental risk”, ...