US EditionThe European Commission Is Referring Hungary to the Court of Justice of the European Union
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The European Commission has also launched infringement proceedings over electronic toll collection and taken another step towards litigation over the awarding of motorway concession contracts.
The Ministry of Transport will analyse the resolution sent by the European Commission, which considers that the granting of the AP-66 motorway toll is contrary to European public tendering rules, and will exhaust "the options of response, in addition to the possibility, if necessary, of bringing appropriate remedies".Read more]]>
The way the Hungarian government handed over the expressways could not even be called a concession, the European Commission said. They have also made progress on three other issues of Hungarian interest.
The European Commission has sent a letter of formal notice to the Hungarian government asking it to comply with EU rules when awarding motorway concession contracts. In 2022, the government granted a large part of the national motorway and expressway network a 35-year concession to Magyar Koncessziós Infrastruktura Fejlesztő Zrt., a private equity fund owned by Lőrinc Mészáros and László Szíjj. According to the contract, the deal could cost taxp…
The Government has two months to respond, but warns that the current phase does not mean the end of the extension or the tolls.
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