The measure will be applied for public purchase auctions organized before June 10, 2011 which received no consultative opinion from the Department Coordinating and Checking Public Purchases (UCVAP), for auctions organized after June 10, 2011 based on “no observations” from UCVAP or for auctions organized after October 1, 2011 and whose documentation was evaluated by the National Authority Regulating and Supervising Public Purchases (ANRMAP) according to its attributions, the Government said in a statement.
So far, financial corrections imposed by the European Commission have been imposed on contracting authorities and had to be paid from local authorities’ budgets, but many county councils took legal action against the ministries managing the respective programs and often won in court.