page_title: List of government-owned companies
section_title: Colombia
hierarchical_section_title: List of government-owned companies / Government-owned companies / Colombia
caption_attribution_description: Español: Edificio EPM
context_page_description: This is a world-wide list of government-owned companies. This list can be considered as non-exhaustive because of lack of space and time. For example, as of October 2019, China alone has more than 350 individual entries in its Government-owned companies of China Category Page.
  The paragraph that follows was paraphrased from a 1996 GAO report which investigated only the 20th-century American experience. The GAO report did not consider the potential use in the international forum of SOEs as extensions of a nation's foreign policy utensils. A government-owned corporation is a legal entity that undertakes commercial activities on behalf of an owner government. Their legal status varies from being a part of government to stock companies with a state as a regular stockholder. There is no standard definition of a government-owned corporation or state-owned enterprise, although the two terms can be used interchangeably. The defining characteristics are that they have a distinct legal form and that they are established to operate in commercial affairs.
context_section_description: Ecopetrol
  Empresas Públicas de Medellín
  ETB
  Las Ceibas - Empresas Públicas de Neiva E.S.P
caption: Empresas Públicas de Medellín headquarters
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