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Deputy PM Barna: Non-EU companies participating in tenders, limited; no bidders that don't observe European standards
The Deputy Prime Minister, co-chairman of the USR PLUS (Save Romania Union - Party of Liberty, Unity and Solidarity) Alliance, declared on Monday, regarding the memorandum of limiting participation to tenders of certain non-EU companies, or which Romania has no commercial agreements with, that this measure ensures that there will be no bidders that cannot fulfill the European standards, and thus, be a risk of tenders to be canceled.
"It is the idea of a regulation that already exists in several European states, through which tenders, within this acquisition procedure, extra-community companies, those with whom nor the European Union neither Romania have bilateral agreements, because there are a lot of states - Japan, Canada, Israel, - with which Romania or the EU have such agreements, these companies, not respecting European standards, to not be able to participate in tenders because of this reason, in which we are sure that we are not commencing a tender process, which takes several years afterwards, instead of making infrastructure works that we need, to wake up and see that in fact the suppliers do not respect the European standards," Barna specified in a press conference, on the memorandum regarding the contracts with the non-EU companies, a document which was presented together with the Minister of Transport, Catalin Drula, and adopted in the Government sitting.
He said that it is about the procedures organized by the Romanian state, some with European funds, others with national money.
Barna also specified that the document does not contain the names of certain states.