The Drinking Water and Sanitation Regulation Commission ("Comisión de Regulación de Agua Potable y Saneamiento Básico - "CRA") recently issued Resolution 136 of June19th, 2.000 in which it focuses, inter alia, on Article 39.3 of Law 142 of 1994. This provision regulates the special contracts that apply for the management of public utilities. In these contracts, official entities: i) transfer the property or the use and enjoyment of the assets especially intended to render public utilities, concessions or similar schemes, or ii) make third parties responsible for any of the activities that they have carried out to render public utilities, or iii) allow one or more consumers to carry out the necessary works to benefit from a utility that public entities are rendering.
