Service regulation and human rights to water and sanitation 2017, para. 38
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The International Water Association’s Lisbon Charter underscores the importance of ensuring an adequate level of institutional, functional and financial independence of regulatory bodies. Some of the features that would characterize independent regulatory bodies include: (a) a stable mandate, which does not depend on either the electoral cycle or changes of government; (b) autonomy in exercising their regulatory functions; (c) the definitive nature of their decisions, which can only be challenged in the courts; and (d) substantial administrative autonomy in their human and budgetary resource management.
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Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation