Increasing Appeal Fees – A Disproportionate (and Unconstitutional?) Amendments to the Croatian Public Procurement Act
In this blog, associate professor Marko Turudic (Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb) comments on the newest amendments to the โโCroatian Public Procurement Act and criticises the dramatic increase in appeal fees.
Firstly, he provides readers with a brief overview of changes brought by the amendments as well as the national political context in which they were adopted. Secondly, he shortly explains the public procurement remedies system in Croatia. Thirdly, he analyses the increase of appeal fees and discusses whether such changes are disproportional or even unconstitutional. He concludes that the newest fee appeal increase strongly discourages appellants and might result in more illegal public procurement procedures.
