Hungarian Government Revealed How They Would Expel Austrian Company From Hungary
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Problematic participants could also be excluded from ongoing public procurement procedures.
Hungarian government revealed how they would expel Austrian company from Hungary
János Lázár, the minister of construction and transport, is proposing an amendment to the law on public procurement to ensure that contractors that cause damage through non-compliance in road or railway construction projects could be excluded from public procurement in future, according to a Facebook entry he posted on Monday. “This cannot go on! If we cannot protect the interests of Hungarian people using nice words, we will do so through legal…
This cannot go on like this! – exclaimed János Lázár in his recent Facebook post. The Minister of Transport and Construction is preparing to initiate an amendment to the Public Procurement Act. “We will exclude from our public procurement procedures those companies that, during road and railway developments, have cheated the Hungarian people with their poorly or incomplete work, harmed them, and hindered our fundamental rights to the free moveme…
The aim is to exclude contract violators from public construction projects, although this was already included in the public procurement law. According to Lázár's amendment, contract violations that occurred more than two years ago would also be punished, and it would also apply to ongoing procedures.
János Lázár would exclude from the public procurement procedure those companies that cause damage to Hungarian taxpayers. Ten months were not enough for the Austrian watch company Strabag to repair the road section that sank shortly after the handover due to poor workmanship. The minister is therefore initiating an amendment to the Public Procurement Act.
The conflict between the Ministry of Construction and Transport (ÉKM) and Strabag appears to be escalating: Minister János Lázár would amend the law to exclude previously "poorly performing" companies from public procurement procedures, the minister wrote in a Facebook post on Monday.
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