Finance Ministry and the National Agency for Public Procurement published last week the draft law on public procurement, with a period of public consultations of 10 days, until August 1.
“While AmCham acknowledges the efforts of the Romanian Government team to transpose the new European Directive into the national legislation, given the complexity and importance of the proposed topics, and in view of collecting relevant feedback and well grounded recommendations we consider that a consultation period of at least 30 days is needed for reaching a real, consistent and efficient consultation process,” AmCham said in a stamen Thursday.
According to Amcham representatives, the importance of the reform in the public procurement system represents an essential priority for the development of the Romanian economy, for a higher EU funds absorption rate and for speeding up the priority investment projects.
“AmCham Romania will continue to provide its members’ feedback on the proposed legislation and advocate for making the public procurement system reform a leading priority in view of increased economic growth, a sustainable increase of the EU funds absorption and accelerated investments in priority projects,” the institution said.
AmCham Romania has over 400 members (foreign and local companies) whose investments on the local market exceed $20 billion.