Law on water services.

This Law regulates the entire institutional frame work and governance principles for the elaboration of necessary provision related to general water services, including issues on the price of water services, on the legal position and sustainable business of water service providers, on the functioning of the Water Services Council and other issues regarding the water services on the territory of the Republic of Croatia. Public water supply is an activity of abstraction of groundwater and surface water for human consumption, including its proper conditioning and delivery to the end user or to another water service provider or to a public tap via public water supply facilities, further including the management of involved sites and facilities, as well as mobile or extraordinary water supply for human consumption (by tanker, aquifer or otherwise).
The text is divided into fourteen main Chapters and 116 articles. Titles of Chapters are as follows: Introductory provisions (I); Areas of water services (II);Communal water facilities (III); Water service suppliers (IV); Water Supply Contract (V); General conditions of delivery of water services (VI);Cost of water services (VII); Special water supply (VIII); Connecting to communal water buildings (IX); Meeting the obligations of multi-year construction programmes (X); Water Services Council (XI); Supervision (XII); Penalty measures (XIII); and Transitional and final provisions (XIV).
This Law establishes that all water services are activities of general interest and shall be performed as a public service. The activity of water services is performed by public water service providers. Water services are of interest for all local self-government units also in relation to inter-municipal activities. Local self-government units shall ensure the effective and correct implementation of water service provisions. Water services are provided under non-discriminatory and socially acceptable conditions. Water services activities shall be carried out in a permanent, efficient, economical and purposeful manner, and they have to be carried out in a manner that ensures their sustainable development and continuous increase of the overall quality of water services. The prices of water services are determined according to the principle of cost recovery from water services, as regulated by the law governing the financing of water management within the limits of economic efficiency and the principles of fairness, protection from monopoly and social affordability of the price of water. Municipal water structures are public goods in public use and are owned by the public water service provider in that particular service area.
Article 7 sets out provisions on water service areas; article 9 is on ownership, management, construction and maintenance of public water facilities; restrictions on municipal water structures are laid down in article 10. Management of urban rainwater drainage activities is defined in article 14; management of irrigation activities is explained in article 15; general and special conditions for conducting water services are listed in article 16. Internal monitoring of the work of water service providers is regulated in article 25. General conditions of water services are listed in article 40. Articles 42-46 are determining different types of costs of water services. Termination of by-Laws is regulated in article 114. Completion of initiated administrative procedures in relation to other or previous relevant national legislation is defined in article 115.