Proactive Contracting in Finnish PPP Projects

• Authors: Antti Tieva , Juha-Matti Junnonen

Title variants

LT

Iniciatyvus sutarčių sudarymas suomijos VPP projektuose

Abstracts

EN

Public-private-partnership projects are long term, complex and very challenging contractual arrangements and relationships. They bring new roles for public sector and also for private sector in terms of construction and services. This paper will go through some features of the Finnish PPPs. Proactive law focuses in practical views as regards contract law and contractual issues. The main target is to prevent problems instead of confronting them. This paper will clarify what proactive law is about in terms of contract law and contracting especially in PPPs. For instance, 20-40 years' partnership relation with PPPs brings up also dozens of different risks into the picture. This paper will discuss the risks and risk management in terms of proactive law and after that, focus on PPPs in Finland.

LT

Viešojo ir privataus sektorių partnerystės (VPP) projektai - tai ilgalaikiai, sudėtingi ir itin daug pastangų reikalaujantys sutartiniai susitarimai ir santykiai. Ne tik viešajame, bet ir privačiajame sektoriuje jie sukuria naujus, su statyba ir paslaugomis susijusius, vaidmenis. Šiame darbe apžvelgiami kai kurie Suomijos VPP bruožai. Iniciatyvi teisė glaudžiai susijusi su praktinėmis pažiūromis, sutarčių teise ir pan. Pagrindinis tikslas - išvengti problemų užuot jas sprendus. Šiame darbe paaiškinama iniciatyvios teisės esmė sudarant sutartis, ypač VPP. Pavyzdžiui, kai VPP trunka 20-40 metų, susiduriama su daugybe įvairių rizikos rūšių. Todėl straipsnyje pirmiausia aptariamos rizikos rūšys ir rizikos valdymo būdai taikant iniciatyvią teisę, o po to - Suomijos VPP.

Keywords

EN

Proactive contracting; Risk management; Public-private partnership

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: International Journal of Strategic Property Management
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 13
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 219-228

Contributors

author

Antti Tieva

• CEM Facility Services Research, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Helsinki University of Technology, P.O. Box 3300, FIN-02015 HUT, Finland

author

Juha-Matti Junnonen

• CEM Facility Services Research, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Helsinki University of Technology, P.O. Box 3300, FIN-02015 HUT, Finland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.3846/1648-715X.2009.13.219-228