IFRIC 12 Service Concession Arrangements

Abstract

IFRIC Interpretation 12 provides guidance on the accounting methods to be adopted by operators of infrastructure to deliver public services, or services operated as a concession. In Italy, these arrangements are referred to as public service concession agreements, which is the procedure through which the authority, or the administration (the grantor) entrusts an individual or an organization (the operator) with the task of setting up and managing a public service under its control. At the end of the service concession period any works constructed by the operator become the property of the grantor.