The Public Procurement Authority drew attention to a "serious error" in the European Commission's report on the Hungarian rule of law in a statement.
The committee wrongly claims that trust foundations are exempt from the public procurement obligation, the authority wrote.
"The truth, on the other hand, is that the (...) law does not provide for this, but the exact opposite," they said.
The authority announced that the Public Procurement Act requires the application of the general rules to these foundations when examining the quality of tenderers.
Based on the general rules, asset management foundations and the higher education institutions they maintain - as public organizations - can qualify as tenderers. Public organizations are obliged to carry out the public procurement procedure not only for all purchases financed by EU funds, but also for all of their purchases, the Public Procurement Authority announced.
In the absence of this, the affected foundations and higher education institutions - in the case of procurements realized with support - may also be classified as tendering organizations because of the support, they wrote.
The Public Procurement Authority gave a detailed explanation of this to the representatives of the European Commission during the preparation of the report, but the organization ignored it, they informed.
MTI
