Public Hearings on the Provision of Public Services
Public Hearings on the Provision of Public Services are instances convened by the Regulatory Authority prior to the adoption of a tariff decision on a public service. Persons who have a legitimate interest may participate in the hearing. These persons and / or organizations are entitled to present their opposition on the day of the hearing. The public hearing may be conducted in one or several stages, but is always directed by the General Regulator. The process of the public hearing is governed by the following principles: 1. Due process in a substantial and adjectival sense, 2. Publicity, 3. Orality, 4. Congruence, 5. Participation, 6. Informalism, 7. Procedural Economics, 8. Impartiality and, 9. Ex-officio actions.
Institutional design
Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?
Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?
Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?
Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?
Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?
Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?
- Formalization
- embedded in the constitution/legislation
- Frequency
- sporadic
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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