6 Of GDP end of 2005 public debt returned to 65by chains that undermine entrepreneurial State and regulatory structuresYesterday at the meeting François Fillon attempted to hold the two endsThe European Commission does think about nothingBut the time is not yet in the balance sheetThe stagnation of the application does notNew York City to the miséance the title practical 28He does not like complex financial productsassured Japanese Prime Minister Naoto KanThe lowest the Gilt fell to 2949 March 13The never-seen! A few months before the end of the contract which binds Veolia to the Union of the waters of Ile-de-France (Sedif) the largest delegation of public service in Europe with 1 million cubic metres of water distributed every day to 4.2 million in Ile-de-France Suez Environment struck a great blow. Yesterday, the mayors of the common 144 members of the Sedif received a signed letter from Gérard Mestrallet, Chairman of GDF Suez, and Jean-Louis Chaussade, Director General of Suez Environment. The two men are that they will be candidates to tender in preparation. Most importantly, they dare to claim that the Office of the Union of the waters of Ile-de-France has not provided: divide the contract in several parts.
Vote on December 11
"The allotment is the guarantee of a better choice for the Union and better service for users in terms of quality of water, social pricing and listening to consumers." The scope of the service to delegate gives the operator leaving a considerable advantage. ""Divide"means respect equality between the candidates and intensify competition", says the mail.
At first glance, Suez Environment (Lyonnaise des Eaux on the French market) plays against his own side in making such a request and takes the risk of missing a market of more than EUR 350 million per year.
In fact, the Group recognizes, it tries to avoid to be set aside by a competitor (Veolia Environnement, the water ex-Générale) whose contract date of... 1962, with a first allocation in 1923. 142 Delegates representing the common 144 members of the Sedif are called upon to vote on 11 December next on the future mode of management of the Union. The Board expressed "interest" contract ends in late 2010, an international tender to be launched next spring. The Sedif made study four scenarios, two direct management with public authority and two management delegated to the private sector. It is a possible economy of 40 to 45 million euros per year! A figure that the Sedif does not, while the consumers association of UFC-Que choose advance a range of 80 to 90 million.
In October, the Office of the Union is pronounced for a delegation to the private sector, with the system of the interested Board that will be, says André Santini, Secretary of State for public service, Mayor of Issy les Moulineaux, and President of Sedif "profoundly renovated, with a strengthened public control and a more controlled cost". It is this scenario to be proposed in December. A choice against which the elected representatives of left rises. They are seeking, as in Paris, the creation of a public authority. "All the common sense arguments show that it would result in cheaper water", for example justifies Philippe Kaltenbach, Mayor (PS) of Clamart. Elected officials also estimates that the choice of a concerned authority gives an advantage to the outgoing.
"The quality and safety have been the first criteria for the choice and not the price," says André Santini. He says that the competitors are ready to break the price for this enormous market. Elected officials see a downside to that Directorate-General of the competition asks an allotment of the contract "If the authorities want to, we obéirons to their remarks", assured the President of the Sedif.
