[RUS][ENG]

Series 14

LAW.

Issue 1, 2014

CONTENTS

Section COMMERCIAL LAW
Page 70-81
Title NOTION AND CHARACTERISTICS OF A PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP
Author 1 Rusakov Vitaly Iyustinovich St. Petersburg State University
7/9, Universitetskaya nab., St. Petersburg, 199034, Russian Federation
doctoral candidate of Commercial Law Department
e-mail: rusakovvitaliy@yandex.ru
Summary The article examines the notion and characteristics of a public-private partnership (PPP). Based on the conducted research of the legal definitions available in the constituent units of the Russian Federation, draft federal law �On the public-private partnership�, as well as the notions established in science, literature and in a business community, the author reveals the essence of this phenomenon. The author points out its main (basic) characteristics and gives both an extensive and, for the sake of convenience, a brief legal definition of a public-private partnership.
Keywords Public-private partnership, public interest, private interest, distinction criteria, investments, entre preneurial activity.