Knowledge and understanding
After successfully completing the course, students will be able to:
1. describe historical development of local public services
2. describe and understand modern trends in the development of public services: privatisation, liberalisation, marketisation, deregulation and remunicipalisation
3. identify and explain EU regulation concerned with local public services and explain its influence on the manners of performing these services in member states
4. define and describe general legal framework of the operation of utility services in Croatia
5. list, recognise and describe various forms of performing local public services in Croatia
6. name and describe the rights and obligations of utility service providers and users i.e. consumers of these services
7. To explain te systems of provision different local public services: water management; municipal waste management, childcare; social protection and fire protection.
Application
After successfully completing the course, students will be able to:
1. interpret historical circumstances of the development of local services and reasons for their performance by local self-government units
2. demonstrate the differences bewteen individual categories of local services with regard to concepts and categories of services of general interest developed within the EU
3. illustrate concepts of privatisation, liberalisation and deregulation on examples of local public services in Croatia
4. outline elementary measures that would improve legal regulation of local public services in Croatia
5. apply acquired knowledge on practical management and regulation of local services and for solving individual cases
Analysis
After successfully completing the course, students will be able to:
1. differentiate and categorise individual local services and stages of their historical development
2. analyse and connect modern trends in the development of public services
3. compare and differentiate local services of general interest from market services in the lights of acquis communitaire
4. distinguish and analyse modalities of performing utility services in large towns and continuously urbanised areas
5. analyse and compare legal regulations that regulate local public services with the relevant EU regulation
Synthesis
After successfully completing the course, students will be able to:
1. construct arguments for individual modalities of performing local public services in concrete circumstances
2. formulate challenges in provision of local public services
3. propose elementary changes of the legal framework of local public services in Croatia
4. plan measures of modernisation of individual local public services
5. participate in the management of individual local services in local self-government units
Evaluation
After successfully completing the course, students will be able to:
1. evaluate the trends in further development of local public services
2. assess the influence of various social, political and economic circumstances on the organisation, activity and financing of local services
3. evaluate adequacy of individual modalities of performing local public services in continuously urbanised areas
4. reexamine and evaluate adequacy of the legal framework of local public services and evaluate their adjustment with the EU regulation
5. assess the effects of deregulation, privatisation and liberalisation of local public services on the obligations and rights of their holders on one hand, and users i.e. consumers on the other hand
After successfully completing the course, students will be able to:
1. publicly present acquired learning outcomes
2. recognise and resolve problems in the regulation of local public services as asll as practical problems in their functioning
3. in the practical sense, students are trained to actively monitor and analyse the problem of the development of local public services in the context of European integration and the process of mutual influence between the EU and member states, which qualifies them for work in public administration on the tasks connected with the European integration
4. in terms of research abilities, students are introducted to basic tools for researching the databases of European legislation and documents, particularly those concerned with legal acts that regulate individual public services of local character.
