Thompson: Revising regulations regarding public acquisitions in Romania will help the fight against corruption

A proper revision of the regulations regarding public acquisitions in Romania and the implementation of the Prevent system in identifying conflicts of interest will help Romania to fight corruption in this field, the US Charge d'Affaires in Bucharest, Dean Thompson, stated on Wednesday.

The US official participates, alongside the Minister of Public Finances, Eugen Teodorovici, in the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding between the US Trade and Development Agency and the Romanian Government.

"Public acquisitions are essential when it comes to ensuring the supremacy of law in economy and in the institutions in this field, while ensuring the sustained growth of Romania and fighting corruption," Dean Thompson said at Victoria Palace.

In his turn, the Minister of Finance informed that a new package of laws on public acquisitions will be adopted by the end of the year.

"Romania will have four normative acts adopted by the end of this year, to transpose the Directive on public acquisitions (...) All these four acts will be available for public consultation towards the end of this month and we hope that during the summer months we will have an intense public debate with all the factors involved in public acquisitions," said Teodorovici.

According to the Memorandum, over 50 representatives of Romanian institutions will participate for three days in a seminar with professors of the "Laws on Public Acquisitions" programme of the Faculty of Law of the George Washington University.

"The representatives of the institutions in charge with public acquisitions participating in this seminar will go back to their ministries, agencies and companies with more instruments to help them obtain the best value for the money paid, as they...