Örtliche Daseinsvorsorge und gemeindliche Selbstverwaltung

For more than a century, German municipal authorities and the companies belonging to them played an important part in supplying electricity as well as other goods and services to the members of their community. In the last few years, privatization and deregulation by EC law and German national law have had an increasing impact on these activities. The author investigates the remaining scope of local self-government in the field of the so-called 'Daseinsvorsorge'.