AK EUROPA, ÖGB Europabüro, younion _ Die Daseinsgewerkschaft and the Austrian Association of Cities and Towns cordially invite you to the following event:

A closer look at today's European water supply system:
Is the revision to the Concessions Directive a door opener for another liberalisation?

Wednesday, January 9th 2019, 18:30h
Permanent Representation of Austria to the EU
Avenue de Cortenbergh 30, 1040 Brussels

With the coming revisions to the Concessions Directive no later than April 2019, the exceptions for water supply and sanitation systems are up for debate again. A new study looks at the water management of six european countries (AT, DE, HU, FR, PT, UK) and demonstrates that public providers do not fall behind private ones, they even show better results in some respects. Furthermore, current developments like the remunicipalisation of water supply and sanitation systems are identified and new phenomena of financialization (financial investors and their business models, outsourcing, privatisation) are addressed.

Opening speech:

Thomas Weninger, Secretary General, Austrian Association of Cities and Towns

Presentation of the study:

Dr. Leonhard Plank, Institute for Public Finance – TU Vienna

Panel Discussion:

Marzena Rogalska, European Commission
Walter Kling, Wiener Wasser
Wolfang Deinlein, Stadtwerke Karlsruhe
Iris Strutzmann, Austrian Federal Chamber of Labour Vienna


Closing Remarks:

Thomas Kattnig, Member of the Federal Executive Board of younion _ Die Daseinsgewerkschaft
Thomas Weninger, Secretary General, Austrian Association of Cities and Towns

The discussion will take place in German and English with simultaneous translation.

After the discussion, we invite you to a buffet reception.


Please register here!

For further information contact AK EUROPA (Dit e-mailadres wordt beveiligd tegen spambots. JavaScript dient ingeschakeld te zijn om het te bekijken., +32 22 30 63 54) or
ÖGB Europabüro (Dit e-mailadres wordt beveiligd tegen spambots. JavaScript dient ingeschakeld te zijn om het te bekijken., +32 22 30 74 63)