Regulation of water supply and sewerage services act.

This Act shall provide the regulation of the prices, the accessibility and the quality of the water supply and the sewerage services, implemented by the exploitation enterprises for water supply and sewerage services, called hereinafter "WSS operator" (considered in terms of this Act as activities of public interest). The water supply and sewerage (WSS) services are defined as treatment and supply of water for drinking-household, industrial and other needs, discharge and treatment of waste and rain waters from the properties of the consumers in the urbanized territories (the settlements and the settlement formations), as well as the activities for construction, maintenance and exploitation of the water supply and sewerage systems, including the treatment stations and the other facilities. This Act shall aim to create conditions for: satisfying the needs of the consumers of water with drinking qualities giving priority to the drinking – household water supply of the population; ensuring of accessibility, reliability and security of WSS services; increase of the quality and the efficiency of the rendered WSS services; prevention of waste waters flowing out of the sewerage network, as well as discharge of drainage waters in it out of the provided in the technological process; reduction of the total losses of water at exploitation of the water supply systems; balancing the interests of the WSS operators and of the users; equality between the different groups of consumers with regard to the quality and the price of the WSS services. This Act also states that the water for drinking – household needs is basic vital necessity in the sense of the national Social Support Act (article 3).
The text is divided into seven thematic Chapters, as follows: 1-General provisions; 2-Regulation of the water supply and sewerage services; 3-Regulation of the quality of the water supply and the sewerage services; 4-Regulation of the prices of the water supply and the sewerage services; 5-Control; 6-Information system; 7-Administrative punitive provisions.