A prestação regionalizada e a gestão associada dos serviços públicos de saneamento e a Lei nº 14.026/2020: novo marco legal do saneamento básico

Abstract

The law nº 14.026, published in July 2020, updated the Legal Framework for Basic Sanitation and the required changes to the regulation, provision and management of basic sanitation services, considered as drinking water supply, sanitary sewage, urban cleaning and solids waste management and urban stormwater drainage and management. Among the innovations of the so-called New Legal Framework for Sanitation Legal Sanitation, the associated management concept was updated and new forms of regionalized provision were proposed. In addition, the regionalized provision of services came to be considered as a fundamental principle in the quest of the universalization of sanitation services. In this context, this article is worth checking the proposals for the provision and management of services under the New Legal Framework for Sanitation, based on a theoretical interpretation with a legal-dogmatic approach, of the diagnostic type and based mainly on laws, jurisprudence and doctrine . It was found, despite some questions about the autonomy of the holders, a great incentive for inter-federative governance seeking the economy, the standardization of planning and provision of services through a joint action of the Municipalities.