The Committees of ForoPPP are the engine that originates and develops the opinion of the Association.

The experts that form them come from various areas of the PPP and they meet periodically to study and analyse interesting topics concerning the PPP field.

The results of these studies are compiled in reports, evaluations and technical documents and presented to the Public Administration in several events organized by the Association.

At the moment, there are five Committees in ForoPPP:

Water Committee

Given the importance of this sector and the growing interest in water CPP projects of the Central Government and the autonomic and local authorities, this group was created in 2008.

It is formed by representatives of companies specialized in the management of water and in the use of PPP for projects concerning the design, construction, exploitation and total management of the cycle of water. Among others, it analyzes topics related to the General National Plan on Quality of Waters, the CPP in this area or the price of water.

Financial Committee

Since its creation, right after the foundation of ForoPPP in 2007, the aim of the Financial Committee has been to examine, compare and spread the actions realized in Spain and in other countries in the PPP field and to give guidelines about the possible “financeable” projects in the current situation. Among other topics, it studies the financial instruments of the sector and the influence in the expropriation risks in project financing.

Legal Committee

The Legal Committee, also created in 2007, spreads the PPP structures know-how and aims to obtain legal security in the instruments for tendering and contracting.

It’s in charge of studying the standardization of PPP contracts and, together with the Financial Committee, of evaluating the Drafts of the Law on Attraction of Financing or the sectorial adaptation of IFRIC12.

Transport Committee

The analysis carried out by this group, formed in 2011 from the union of the Technical and Railroads Committee, covers the whole transport sector at a national and European level.

The Technical Committee (set up in 2007) studied, selected, proposed and debated topics of interest in all the technical issues related to PPP, as the analysis of availability payments, PPP in Spanish education system or the tender conditions of the hospitals last built in the Madrid region.

The Railroads Committee was founded in the first semester of 2010, due to the great interest created by the Extraordinary Infrastructures Plan of the Ministry of Public Works. Its members, experts in a wide range of areas in this specific field (technical, legal, financial and consultant), studied the best and most efficient alternatives to execute transport projects.

GTCom

The “Communication on PPP” Group is formed by communication experts of the companies associated to ForoPPP. This Group compiles documents focused on spreading a more complete understanding of PPP projects in the media and the general public and on helping our members’ communication teams in their daily tasks. It aims to create communication synergies between ForoPPP and its Members; to have a “picture” about communication on PPP in Spain; to unify the messages about it.