The paper is based on the use of evidence to scrutinise the effect of the Public-Private Partnership Act on the local public utility providers, where the context of the water and wastewater sector in Slovenia serves as an example. The Act affected the legal status of public enterprises, where solely public ownership was prescribed, and therefore demanded the reorganisation of existing public enterprises. The paper aims to evaluate the reorganisation process and the trend of remunicipalisation, the motives of reorganisation (political, pragmatic or transformative) and the advantages and disadvantages of the reorganisation process. A detailed, structured online questionnaire was designed and pretested for primary data collection to reach these aims. The questionnaire was sent to the Slovenian local public utility providers in water and wastewater management. The data was collated from 2018 to 2020. It was used in the analysis to provide evidence about the outcomes of the reorganisation process. The results show that new legislation contributed to increased public ownership in local public utility provision. The results also reveal that pragmatic motivating factors contributed to increased municipal buying out of private investors from (public) enterprises. The reorganisation process led municipalities into remunicipalisation, meaning that full municipal ownership and control increased.

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重组地方公用事业：我们在哪里以及为什么可以争论重新市政化趋势？

本文以斯洛文尼亚水和废水处理部门为例，使用证据来审查《公私合作法》对当地公用事业提供商的影响。该法影响了仅规定公有制的公有企业的法律地位，因此要求对现有公有企业进行重组。本文旨在评估重组过程和重新市政化的趋势、重组的动机（政治的、务实的或变革的）以及重组过程的优点和缺点。为了实现这些目标，我们设计了一份详细的、结构化的在线调查问卷，并针对主要数据收集进行了预先测试。调查问卷被发送给斯洛文尼亚当地水和废水管理公用事业提供商。这些数据是从 2018 年到 2020 年整理的。分析中使用这些数据来提供有关重组过程结果的证据。结果表明，新立法有助于增加地方公用事业供应中的公有制。结果还表明，务实的激励因素促使市政部门增加了私人投资者对（公共）企业的收购。重组过程导致市政当局重新市政化，这意味着市政当局的完全所有权和控制权得到了增加。