The operators that provide public water supply and sewerage services will sign individual contracts with each apartment owner apart, at the request of one of the sides. The contracts will be signed within 30 days of the submission of an application. The MPs passed a bill to this effect in the final reading on February 22, IPN reports.

The informative note to the bill says the current law violates consumers’ rights. The public water supply and sewerage services are provided based on contracts signed with all the dwellers of an apartment building and the volume of water consumed by some of the dwellers that do not pay the water bills is included in the bills of dwellers that regularly pay for the consumed water.

The bill was passed by 81 votes in favor. Another two legislative proposals concerning water supply and sewerage services are to be merged and will regulate the implementation of the new provisions.