Hungary’s draft Public Procurement Act lacks important details that will be regulated by decree, creating an absence of transparency, Peter Tausz of Transparency International Magyarország said on Tuesday.
Instead of establishing an oversight body in the act, the draft borrows the text of regulations on the Public Procurement Council, with the note that new rules for the watchdog must be created, Tausz said, citing an example of one of the draft’s shortfalls. Putting the watchdog under the government damages its guarantee to legal redress, he explained.
A debate on the act by legal experts took place at the last minute, thus they have only till Wednesday morning to express an opinion on the draft legislation, at which time the social debate on the draft ends, he said.
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