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The authorities have initiated annulment proceedings by decision of the International Court of Arbitration in Paris, which justifies the Italian constructor Salini Impregilo with respect to the termination of the contract for the execution of the “bear” section of lot 2 of the Lugoj-Deva road. . The decision establishes the payment by the Romanian state of the amount of approximately 50 million euros in damages, declared the Minister of Transport, Lucian Bode.
“I also received the information a few days ago from the Road Company.
Basically, the International Court of Arbitration of Paris, by sentence, establishes some things in relation to this lot of roads. Beyond the amount that the Romanian state is obliged to pay the builder, approximately 50 million euros, it also establishes something. Declare that the contract is in force and further declares that the partial termination of the contract by the Company was abusive and illegal.
I believe that the Romanian state should use all the levers it has to stop the implementation of this decision. We have already started the appeal procedures in the annulment of this decision and I hope that, through participation and serious defense of the interests of the Romanian state, we can reverse this decision, “Bode told Realitatea Plus.
Basically, says the minister, the old contract is in force.
“The old contract is in force. That is the ruling of the Paris Court of Arbitration. This means that the Italian contractor must be rehired to continue the work with the values established in the contract and, of course, we must pay those compensations. This is inadmissible from my point of view.he said.
The Minister of Transport explained that this is the second instance, since In the first instance, Romania wonBut, subsequently, “no employee of the Romanian state seemed to defend the interests of the Romanian state.”
“I am talking about the second instance, because in the first instance the Romanian state won.
The Road Company won the case for a very simple reason. The builder signed that contract for the execution of lot 2 of the Lugoj-Deva highway, those 28 kilometers, in 2013, for a value of 560 million lei. In 2017, the Road Company decided to remove a section (10 km) from the contract for a reason, I think, just as simple and sustainable. That is, the value of the lot in the section was 130% higher than the initial value of the contract. It could not complement the value of a contract of 120 million euros with another 130 million euros. So I won in the first instance.
We will defend the interests of the Romanian state, because I want to emphasize one thing. I learned from the lawyer hired by the company something surprising: between the first instance and the Paris Court of Arbitration, no employee of the Romanian state seemed to defend the interests of the Romanian state.
Simply Road Company employees refused to go to court and tell the truth and defend the interests of the Romanian state. I publicly commit to clarify this.
It is inadmissible for you, an employee of the Romanian state, to refuse to go to defend the interests of the Romanian state in court, “said the head of Transport.
In his opinion, all those who refused to defend the interests of the Romanian state in this case must answer to the law.
“I’m convinced that all those who have deliberately refused to defend the interests of the Romanian state must respond to the law.
I have an obligation to clarify these aspects because from this lot of the Lugoj-Deva highway, of the 100 km, we have practically 21 km with speed and tonnage restrictions, lot 3, respectively, we have section E of 10 km. , the famous section ‘bear’, and here is a discussion that we will surely have at the first opportunity: how we went from an environmental agreement in 2010, where there was no bear foot in the last 40 years, to an environmental agreement revised in 2016, by all the bears between Apuseni and Meridionali cross that section, “added Bode.
G.M.
