La categoría jurídica de los "servicios privados de interés público". El caso de las juntas de vigilancia de ríos

This article explains the background of the current configuration of public services, introducing and characterizing the types of Private Services of Public Interest (SPIP, for its name in Spanish). Following, there is the analysis of one case -rivers surveillance tables- on a factual and normative level. Finally, the adequate representation of the SPIP will be verified through the analyzed case, and especially how and up to what limit its theoretical prescriptions are honored as opposed to reality. The closure of the article contains the corresponding conclusions.