site.btaSocialist Party Alerts European Commissionabout Sofia Airport Concession, Urges Prime Minister to Suspend Procedure

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Socialist Party Alerts European Commissionabout Sofia Airport Concession, Urges Prime Minister
to Suspend Procedure


Sofia, January 15 (BTA) - The Bulgarian Socialist Party is
alerting the European Commission's Directorate General for
Competition about the concession procedure for Sofia Airport,
MP Georgi Svilenski told a news conference on Tuesday.

The socialists say that the procedure violates EC rules for state aid. The draft concession agreement has clauses which envisage
obligations for the concession operator (the Transport Minister) and the state for the provision of state aid.

Meanwhile in a letter the socialist party urges Prime Minister Boyko Borissov to suspend the procedure until the European Commission pronounces on it. LI/PP

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