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2018 / 4. szám - FÓRUM - Szabó Iván: Integration, a key to sustainable development in water utility services
Iván Szabó: Integration, a key to sustainable development in water utility services 57 [2] The Brundtland Report: Gro Harlem Brundtland was the Chair of the World Commission on Environment and Development of the UN (in short: the Brundtland Commission) in the middle of the 1980s, where she developed a detailed political plan on sustainable development. The Commission’s final report, which is also called the Brundtland Report, was published in 1987 with the title: “Our common future”. [3] There are numerous Hungarian research projects that focus on this topic. Therefore, we only want to emphasise only a few of them here, without aiming to give an exhaustive list. J. Pump (2011). A jog hatása a fenntartható közszolgáltatásra a hulladékgazdálkodás és a vízgazdálkodás területén. [The effect of law on sustainable public services in the domain of waste management and water management]. PhD dissertation (a version of a research organisation debate). Budapest, Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem Állam- és Jogtudományi Doktori Iskola [Doctoral School of Law of the Eötvös Loránd University], P. Belényesi (2013). A vízszolgáltatások hatékonyságának javítása a Vízkeretirányelv egyes rendelkezései és a szennyező fizet elvének tükrében. [Improvement of the efficiency of water services in the light of certain provisions of the Water Framework Directive and the ‘polluter pays’ principle]. PhD dissertation. Debrecen, Debreceni Egyetem Marton Géza Állam- és Jogtudományi Doktori Iskola. [Marton Géza Doctoral School of Law of the University of Debrecen], M. Szappanyos (2013). Víz és jog - A vízhez való jog érvényesíthetősége az ENSZ keretében. [Water and Law - Enforcement of the right to water within the framework of the United Nations], Veszprém, Veszprémi Humán tudományokért Alapítvány [Foundation for Humanities in Veszprém]. V. Greksza and M. Szabó (eds.) (2013). Right to Water and the Protection of Fundamental rights in Hungary. Pécs, PTE ÁJK Központ. Cs. Csák (2012). Legal studies in the field of sustainable natural resources. Miskolc, University of Miskolc. [4] Zoltánná Kiss, J. Bodnár, A. Asztalos, E. Papp (2016). A 2006. évi miskolci ivóvízjárvány környezetegészségügyi ismertetése [Environmental Health Information about the 2006 Drinking-water Shortage in Miskolc] https://www.heol.hu/heves/kozelet-heves/abasarivizkrizis-evek-kellenek-a-szennyezes-megszuntetesehez567142/ [5] http://www.origo.hu/nagyvilag/20170828- vizkorlatozas-romaban.html ; http:// népszava, hu/ cikk/113 5560-elnemulhatnak-a- vizcsapok-romaban [6] http://hu.euronews.com/2017/08/15/a-kiszaradas- szelen-a-leghosszabb-spanyol-folyo [7] Hundreds of publications have been made in this topic; therefore, we mention some of the latest ones without aiming to provide and exhaustive list: https://www.researchgate.net/publica- tion/320174277_Water Policies and Conflict Resolu- tion of Public Participation Decision-Making Pro- cesses_Using_Prioritized_Ordered_Weighted_Averag- ingO W AOperators https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319998615_ IntegratedW aterManagement_Approach_for_Vulnerability_Reduction_in_Delhi_ India https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318275673_ Identification_of_Optimal_Water_Supply_Portfolios_for _a_Major_City https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317888275_ Sustainabilitydisclosureamonglta- lian water utilities what and how_they_report [8] http://watergovernance.org/water-govemance/ [9] The term “integration" generally means unification, inclusion, merger or joining. [10] The author’s definition. [11] For more details, see: Dr. I. Szabó-M. Garcia Quesada (2017). Historical waves in Hungarian water sector reform and implications for integration Article in Utilities Policy. [12] Recitals of the Water Utility Services Act: “The Parliament, in order to define fundamental rights and obligations related to public water services, protect the nation’s wealth in public water services, attain the goals of sustainable development and sparing fresh water stocks, provide the conditions of public water services that ensure consumer protection to a wide extent, establish a regulation that ensures the implementation of the foregoing and corresponds to the requirement of objective, transparent and equal treatment, hereby adopts, in accordance with the requirements of the European Union in this topics, the following Act”. [13] Point f) of Paragraph (1) of Section 1 of the Water Utility Services Act: principle of regionality: if, considering the interests of users, establishment of contiguous public water services system that covers multiple settlements is a solution more reasonable than having separate public water services systems in technical and economic terms when it comes to establishing or improving public water services, then priority should be given to the establishment of a contiguous public water services system. [14] Compare with J. E. Szilágyi (2014). A magyar víziközmü szolgáltatók integrációjajogi nézőpontból. [Integration of Hungarian public water service providers from a legal point of view.] Pro Futoro 2014/1 pp. 146-147. [15] According to the Water Utility Services Act, as in force on 8 October 2017. [16] According to the Water Utility Services Act, as in force on 8 October 2017. [17] Fővárosi Vízművek Zrt. (drinking water supply) Fővárosi Csatornázási Művek Zrt. (sewer).
