Improvements would arise from a systematic recourse to ex-ante analyses of risks, an appropriate standardisation of contracts, an in-depth monitoring of single operations and an improvement in the efficiency of public administration.
It must be underlined that the preparation of contracts greatly benefits from the recourse to soft law instruments such as guidelines, standard documents and best practices, which testifies to the importance of several reports on PPPs that have been recently produced by the OECD, the World Bank and other international organisations and discussed at G20 level.