The Romanian government is going to elaborate new project on public acquisition to improve the transparency of fund using. The project is to be based on suggestions from civil society representatives and include points on confidential information about privatization, concession and public-private partnership programs. Yesterday Romanian PM Calin Popescu Tariceanu had a meeting with civil society representatives and talked about the transparency of public acquisition and privatization contracts. The PM expressed the Executive's full willingness to allow access of press and civil society representatives to contracts involving public funds. (...)
New legislation to come in 2006
Civil society representatives asked that public opinion should be presented with privatization contracts and authorities and investors should not turn it down by involving the principle of confidentiality. They suggested that information thought to be confidential should be included in an annex of the contract. (...). (C.S.)