Public-Private Partnership Law No.5 of 2016. Country/Territory Syrian Arab Republic Document type Legislation Date 2016 Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Environment gen., General Keyword Basic legislation Public private partnership (PPP) EIA Procedural matters Protection of environment Business/industry/corporations Equity Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings Subsidy/incentive Intellectual property rights/patents Geographical area Asia, Mediterranean, Middle East, Near East and North Africa, Western Asia Abstract This Law consisting of 83 articles aims at (i) enabling the private sector to participate in one or more of the following works: designing, constructing, building, implementing, maintaining, rehabilitating, developing, managing, or operating public utilities, infrastructure, or projects owned by the public sector, and encouraging it to invest in the activities above; (ii) ensuring that the services provided through this partnership are based on sound economic foundations, high efficiency, and in the most appropriate manner and achieve an added value to local resources; (iii) ensuring transparency, non-discrimination, equal opportunities, competitiveness, safety and legality of all procedures related to partnership contracts, to ensure that services are performed in a manner that pursues the public interest while ensuring the rights of all parties, including the ultimate beneficiaries of services and investors from the private sector. The provisions of this Law apply to partnership contracts concluded by the public entity with the private sector to create, develop or expand the project and invest it by the private sector alone or in partnership with another public or private entity through the project company to deliver services to the general public. Excluded from the application of the provisions of this Law are the contracts for exploration and investment of natural resources such as oil. Full text Arabic Website www.parliament.gov.sy References - Legislation Amended by Legislative Decree No. 21 of 2017. Legislation | Syrian Arab Republic | 2017 Keyword: Public private partnership (PPP) Source: FAO, FAOLEX