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Professor María Jesús García will give a conference at Unisocietat Ontinyent

  • October 11th, 2022
Conference in Ontinyent

On 17 November, at 7 p.m., the Caixa Ontinyent Cultural Centre will host the conference ‘Rights of consumers and users of Services of General Interest’.

The professor of Administrative Law at the UV and director of the Jean Monnet Chair. Services of General Economic Interest in the framework of social and territorial cohesion,  María Jesús García García, gave this talk in Ontinyent as part of the Unisocietat programme of the Universitat de València.

The specialist in European Law addressed the issue of services of general interest of an economic nature (energy, transport, etc.) and non-economic nature (education, health, right to housing and social services), considering the rights of citizens and the necessary guarantees that must be kept in the provision of those services to ensure their protection. 

Professor García will reviewed the features that characterise services of general interest and the role they play in social cohesion, as well as the regulatory framework and the degree of administrative intervention that takes part in each of them, and how this influences the protection of users. All of this is preceded by a study of the concept of ‘service of general interest’ itself, derived from European Union law, as well as the important role of public authorities in the provision or regulation of these services of general interest as essential elements in the configuration of the European internal market.

The conference was attended by more than 60 people, who at the end of it began their turn to speak in which they revealed the problems they face as recipients of essential services and their doubts about the claim procedures against the companies that provide them.

This conference, co-financed by the European Union —through the Jean Monnet Chair. Services of General Economic Interest in the framework of social and territorial cohesion—, is part of the Unisocietat programme of the Universitat de València, organised by the Office of the Vice-Principal for Culture and Society and the Ontinyent City Council with the collaboration of the Valencian Provincial Council and Caixa Popular.

 

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