TGV: State Justification for Hiring External Legal Advisers
Public company Infraestruturas de Portugal, which made the direct adjustment to launch the implementation for the high-speed line tender, claims that it uses external equipment to “optimize resources” and carry out this “ante” project for the country. And he says he is waiting for the Government’s announcement on the business model to start working together with UTAP – the Finance team created to monitor all Public-Private Partnerships
Infraestruturas de Portugal, (IP) the entity that is leading the high-speed project in the country, confirmed the project to TVI/CNN Portugal that it “chose” to continue to supply external equipment to the State, making a direct adjustment to legal advice for the TGV, juridical instead of happening that there is no public sector, for the resources available for “the resource for this country project the equipment of a structuring character”.
In a reply sent to TVI/CNN Portugal, an IP reminded that it is “planned that the project for the public tender related to this will be launched in the first half of 2023” and that for this “it has been reviewing and updating the documentation referring to the project since the first 2021″. of the Lisbon-Porto AV Line, which was prepared by the High Speed Railway Network (RAVE), between 2009 and 2010”. In this context, it is explained that “it chose to hire equipment in the technical, legal and environmental areas, to provide support in the process of reviewing and updating the relevant documentation”.
IP work support set with finance equipment
As TVI/CNN Portugal advanced, an IP contract or legal advisors to start the high-speed project to connect Lisbon to Porto with the same lawyer who was in the initial phase of the TGV plan launched by José Sócrates. “A direct adjustment was made to the company Jardim Sampaio e Associados, which provided direct support to the RAVE team, between 2009 and 2010, and therefore has extensive knowledge of all phases of the previous AV project”, explains IP, ensuring that it is an option supported by law. “The acquisition of project advice for the new, direct line services was carried out under the provisions of the Special Transport Code for Public Services, water services, energy, special transport of public services sent”, still justified the IP. Stressing that the project has not yet officially taken a decision on “the business project that will be adopted in the Porto-Lisbon model contest”. preparation”., later phase, based on the decision that for taking
According to several sources to TVI/CN Portugal, an idea is developed with public-private partnerships, one for each phase of the sources process. In fact, a commission should soon be created, as an integrated obligation of the PPP law, which will be overseen by elements of UTAP, an entity created by the Ministry of Finance in 2019 to monitor all partnerships. Despite ensuring that there is deliberation, the IP once taken, “IP will certainly assume a whole teamwork of UT in the sense that there is no intention to legalize the tender documentation and ensure compliance with all legal requirements”.