BSP proposes by law to ban the concession of Sofia Airport :: Investor.bg

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of BSP for Bulgaria introduced prohibit the granting of concessions to objects the privatization of which is not authorized

To the left of at the registry of the National Assembly, the law on amendments to the Concessions Act has been introduced. This was announced at a briefing in Parliament by left-wing legislators reports the BTA.

Socialist concerns are mainly related to the concession of the Sofia airport, against which they have long opposed. According to the Socialists, concessions are essentially a form of privatization and, in their implementation, the state will lose its economic power.

According to the deputy Krum Zarkov, other important sites are included in the list in addition to Sofia Airport. Last week, the Socialists suspected that the airport concession was ready to be won by Turkey.

The Amendments to the Concessions Act proposed to prohibit the activities and objects of commercial companies from being included in the prohibitive list of privatization

With the new law on concessions pbaded by this majority, the deadlines have become quite long, they can go up to 50 years, and although it is a legitimate instrument of public-private partnership , the concession should not be used as another means of privatization, comments Krum Zarkov

the state must remain at its best control of the level of the reservoir on these companies, many of which operate successfully and can be developed. It is always our effort to preserve the role of the state in the Bulgarian economy which, on a market principle, participates and controls the markets qualitatively in the interest of all the society, say the deputies. negligible compared to concession agreements of African countries, Rumen Gechev noted. This is why the introduction of control and limitations in this area for BSP is extremely important.