The National Council of Contestation Settlement (CNSC) registered in 2020 a number of 2,983 of formulated contestations by economic operators, rising by 6.2%, in comparison with the previous year, and the value of established irregularities within the public acquisition procedures rises to 4.9 billion Euro.
Of the 2,983 contestations which CNSC was legally invested in 2020, a number of 651 (21.87%) targeted awarding procedures, financed from European funds, and 2,326 (78.13%), procedures financed from internal public funds.
According to CNSC, throughout the year of 2020, the number of formulated contestations within the awarding procedures, financed from European funds, has gone up by 60.74% (246 contestations) in comparison with the previous year, while the number of formulated contestations within the awarding procedures, financed from public national funds, registered a drop of 3% (72 contestations), reported to the same period.