Concessions assessments

The concessions sector assessment is part of the EBRD's efforts to improve the legal environment in its countries of operations. As an international institution with the mandate to assist the countries whose economies are in transition, the EBRD views the promotion of sound concession laws as essential to its work.

These assessments represent an important initiative of the EBRD to better understand legal developments in countries of operations by gauging the status of their concessions-related laws and regulations. Through this project, the EBRD aims to encourage, influence and provide guidance to governments, policy makers and all those in charge of promoting new legislation for the development of concessions-related legal reform in the region.

Concessions Law Assessment
To analyse relevant information in each country, the EBRD devised a checklist with lists of questions covering key concessions issues. Using the checklist, specific country assessments were carried out with the assistance of consultants. This assessment takes into account laws as they appear on the books, as opposed to the way they work in practice. The Government of France funded the 2004 assessment work and its 2005 update.

Individual country assessments 2005

CountryAlbaniaArmeniaAzerbaijanBelarusBosniaBulgariaCroatiaCzech RepublicEstoniaGeorgiaHungaryLatviaLithuaniaKazakhstanKyrgyz RepublicFYR MacedoniaMoldovaMontenegroPolandRomaniaRussian FederationSerbiaSlovak RepublicSloveniaTajikistanTurkmenistanUkraineUzbekistan

Read more about this project, the 2005 assessment results, country rating and country-specific comments and observations in the report on the Results of the Assessment of Concession Laws of Countries in Transition  (0.5Mb).

In the past four years there have been a number of important developments in the region that relate to both PPP policy and legislative initiatives. A few EBRD countries of operations have upgraded their laws regulating concessions and some of those countries that previously had no single-act concessions laws have developed and enacted such acts. Accordingly, the EBRD undertook a follow on Assessment of Concessions Laws 2007/08 the [provisional] results of which can be found below.

Individual country assessments 2008

CountryAlbaniaArmeniaAzerbaijanBelarusBosniaBulgariaCroatiaCzech RepublicEstoniaGeorgiaHungaryKazakhstanKyrgyz RepublicLatviaLithuaniaMacedoniaMoldovaMongoliaMontenegroPolandRomaniaRussiaSerbiaSlovak RepublicSloveniaTajikistanTurkmenistanUkraineUzbekistan

 

Read more about this project, the 2007/08 assessment results, country rating and country-specific comments and observations in the report on the Results of the Assessment of Concession Laws  (0.2Mb).

Legal Indicator Survey (LIS)
The LIS focuses on the way that concession laws actually work. The survey is based on a case study developed specifically to evaluate such aspects as fairness and transparency of rules applicable to the selection process, project agreement and termination. LIS Final Report  (0.1Mb). The Government of France funded the 2006 LIS work.