Reflections on some aspects of how the Public-Private Partnerships are building the Country: the Albanian case in a comparative view

Abstract

Public-private partnerships are one of “the hottest” topics in Albania at the moment for their wide application and the problems related to them. In recent years, Albania is increasingly using these forms of Public-Private cooperation, to help to develop the country both in terms of infrastructure and services. Due to the great importance of their application, national political actors and international bodies are becoming more and more alert to the problems that these forms of cooperation are showing, in order to be able to solve the most acute and immediate problems in this direction, also in the framework of membership of Albania in the EU. For this purpose, this paper analyzes some aspects of the legislation and operation of PPPs in the country in a comparative view with the legal framework of the EU and some European countries. In this paper, are used several scientific methods such as the analytical, comparative and data collection methods also taking into account the primary and secondary sources. The conclusions and recommendations of this paper are related to the positive evolution that this institute has already had and should have in Albania in terms of legal regulation and increased transparency of PPPs procedures, but also to the problems that appear in relation to corruption in tender procedures, the weakness of institutions, the lack of the capacity of the PPC and the Administrative Court to deal with the large number of appeals in this field etc.