Shareholders and statutory bodies

Main shareholders of Vodakva are the Water Management Association of West Bohemia Region and the French company SUEZ Environement, world leader in energy and environment.

Voluntary association of equal municipalities

Nowadays 87 members of the Water Management Association of the West Bohemia Region joined together to carry out the management of water supply and wastewater treatment systems. In fi fteen years the number of its members has more than doubled. The Association covers an area of 183 thousand inhabitants in the regions of Karlovy Vary, Plzeň, Ústí nad Labem and partly also the Central Bohemia Region. To become a member, the municipality should transfer its water assets to the Association. New members are approved by
the general meeting. The voluntary membership is defi ned in association’s articles that enable each municipality to leave the Association with is water assets. The general meeting is the Association’s supreme body, where each municipality has one vote. They vote on water and wastewater rates, investment plans etc.

Public service under public control

Concluding an exclusive lease, the Association transferred the responsibility for running and upgrading existing water and wastewater infrastructure to the operating company Vodárny a kanalizace Karlovy Vary (Vodakva) and became one of its two main shareholders. The other one, international group Suez Environnement, active on a long term basis in water industry, has concluded with the Association shareholders’ agreement. This agreement regulates the voting system and the sharing of functions on statutory bodies. The Association
in cooperation with the worldwide water company Suez Environnement infl uence and check the quality of services and supervise the management of Vodakva. The municipalities also check the realization of investments carried out by Vodakva via their membership in public procurement committees.

Operation and investment solidarity

All Association’s revenues, coming from the rent paid by Vodakva, dividends from Vodakva´s shares and capital subsidies from diff erent sources, are used to fi nance investments in water and wastewater systems. The total solidarity of Association’s members means that they are not only sharing operation but also investments. This enables them to generate suffi cient fi nancial resources to built missing municipal water and wastewater infrastructure without negatively impacting municipal budgets. The investment solidarity also supports
optimal technical and economical solutions in extending water supply systems and building multi municipal wastewater networks with wastewater treatment plants. The result is that the total Association´s property has increased from the existing 1,2 billion to 5,1 billion CZK.

Andělská Hora, Bečov nad Teplou, Bezdružice, Bochov, Bor, Božičany, Boží Dar, Březová, Bublava, Cebiv, Ctiboř, Částkov, Čichalov, Dalovice, Děpoltovice, Erpužice, Hájek, Halže, Horní Blatná, Horní Slavkov, Hory, Hroznětín, Chodov, Chodová Planá, Chodský Újezd, Chyše, Jáchymov, Jenišov, Karlovy Vary, Kladruby, Kokašice, Kolová, Konstantinovy Lázně, Kovářská, Krásný Les, Krásné Údolí, Kryštofovy Hamry, Kyselka, Lestkov, Lišany, Loučná pod Klínovcem, Merklín, Měděnec, Mezholezy, Mírová, Milíře, Nová Role, Nová Ves, Nové Hamry, Ostrov, Ostrov u Bezdružic, Obora, Ošelín, Otovice, Otročín, Pernink, Pila, Prameny, Přimda, Pšov, Rozvadov, Sadov, Stanovice, Staré Sedliště, Staré Sedlo, Stráž, Stráž nad Ohří, Stružná, Stříbro, Studánka, Svojšín, Štědrá, Tachov, Tatrovice, Teplá, Teplička, Tisová, Toužim, Útvina, Vejprty, Velichov, Verušičky, Vrbice, Vojkovice, Zadní Chodov, Zhoř, Žlutice.
 

The French company Lyonnaise des Eaux was the first foreign investor in water services business in the former Czech and Slovak Federal Republic in the early 1990s. After the country’s division the company remained active in the Czech Republic and in the late 1990s expanded business to Slovakia. Initially these activities were part of Lyonnaise des Eaux international expansion. Later, following a merger of the companies SUEZ and Lyonnaise des Eaux in 1997, the firm began to form a large, multinational Franco-Belgian group. In the half of 2008 a marger between SUEZ group and Gaz de France took place crating a new company GDF SUEZ. All environmental activities were transferred to SUEZ Environment company quoted on Paris Stock exchange.

SUEZ Environnement is one of the biggest utility companies and has about 60 000 employees all over the world. Its major shareholder is GDF SUEZ. In more than a decade-long presence in the Czech water services market, SUEZ Environnement has acquired stakes in 10 water and wastewater companies throughout the entire Czech Republic. After a number of mergers, SUEZ Environnement is currently active in five Czech water companies operating in large cities or large or mid-sized companies active in rural territories:

• Brněnské vodárny a kanalizace, a. s.
• Ostravské vodárny a kanalizace a. s.
• Vodárny a kanalizace Karlovy Vary, a. s., (Karlovarský, Plzeňský, Středočeský a Ústecký kraj)
• Šumperská provozní a vodohospodářská společnost, a. s. (Šumperk a okolí)
• Vodohospodářská společnost Benešov, s. r. o., (benešovský region)

Board of directors:

Pierre-Etienne Segre – board of directors chairman 
Ing. Jaroslav Vojta – board of directors vice-chairman
Ing. Antonín Jágl – board of directors member
Ing. Otmar Homolka – board of directors member
Ing. František Vilím – board of directors member

Supervisory board:

František Čurka – supervisory board chairman
PhDr. Pavel Kavka – supervisory board vice-chairman 
Ing. Jan Horník – supervisory board member 
Ing. Petr Lysák – supervisory board member
Martina Masopustová – supervisory board member
Ing. Zdeněk Frček, MBA – supervisory board member
Petr Němec – supervisory board member
Pavel Růžička – supervisory board member
Václav Heřman – supervisory board member

Company management:

Ing. Antonín Jágl – Managing Director
Ing. Zdenek Frcek, MBA – Technical Director
Ing. Jiří Hlaváč – Director of Organisational Development
Ing. Vít Hrubý – Economic Director
Ing. Petr Lysák  – Fist Director of Operations
Ing. Jan Paďourek – Second Director of Operations
Ing. František Bartoš – IT Director