EU Asks Romania For New Changes To Public-Private Partnership Law

05.15.2011 By Ioana Tudor

Romania’s Government must amend the law on public-private partnership (PPP) again to allow the public procurement authority (ANRMAP) to check PPP contracts and ask the court to cancel contracts signed illegally, says the memorandum of understanding agreed upon with the European Commission.

The public-private partnership law, which took effect in October last year, has already been amended through a Government emergency decree issued in April, after the European Commission's Internal Market and Services Directorate General warned Romanian authorities the law violated EU norms.

Through the amendments brought to the law at that time, the Government allowed only the Central Body Coordinating Public-Private Partnerships, under the authority of the Government's Secretariat General, to monitor and check public-private projects.

People close to the matter told MEDIAFAX the decree issued in April to amend the public-private partnership law is still pending debate in Parliament.