أثر جائحة كورونا على مبدأ استمرارية المرفق العام

Abstract EN

Public utilities have become occupying a major position in our contemporary societies, and they carry out basic tasks as citizens have become accustomed to them and their services in a way that we can say with him that life will not be straightforward without it, as the public utility considers the positive aspect of the administration’s activity through which it seeks to satisfy the public needs of its superior.

The principle of the continuity of the public facility on a regular and steady basis is considered one of the most important principles on which the public utility is based, as the requirements of life require the existence of these facilities that satisfy the citizens' desires on a regular basis and without stopping, because their disruption, even temporarily, is a denial of the public interest with which the administrative law has been linked since the very first building blocks of its inception.

Since the principle of the continuity of the public facility does not raise any problems under normal circumstances in terms of its application, it is in exceptional circumstances, especially after the spread of the Covid 19 pandemic, that it collides with obstacles that make the state obligated to take strict preventive measures to effectively limit the impact of the pandemic on the principle of the continuity of the public facility.