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PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP (PPP) – is one of possibilities of long-term cooperation of → public and private sectors within the scope of performing public tasks. PPP includes various activities performed mainly in education, healthcare, infrastructure investments within the scope of providing services, building, expanding or modernizing building objects and other activities aimed at improving the quality of life of citizens. The essence of PPP is a joint implementation of a project based on the division of tasks and risks between entities. PPP uses the knowledge, competences and skills of partners to more effectively and successfully deliver or provide services to citizens. In the PPP agreement, the public entity commits to provide its contribution and the private partner commits to implement the project at a remuneration and to cover in whole or in part the expenditure for implementing the project. The cooperation within PPP should promote maximizing gains of public and private sectors while at the same time achieving the social goal and meeting the collective needs. The idea of PPP is to provide an additional capital for implementing necessary projects in cases of limited public capital, improving the quality of provided services, improving the operation of public administration through optimizing the use of available resources and implementing mechanisms of competition in the scope of providing public services. The key benefit to the private partner is gaining profit from the investment realized within the PPP. The basis of the cooperation is an agreement that defines the scope and conditions of implementing the project and obligations of the parties [ A. Bejma ].

Literature: M. Wieloński, Partnerstwo publiczno-prywatne w Unii Europejskiej [Public-private partnership in the European Union], Warszawa 2014.