Press Release: Public procurement: Commission takes further action on Greek legislation excluding certain companies from public contracts

Following a letter of formal notice sent to Greece on 23 March 2005 and the reply from the Greek national authorities received on 7 April, the European Commission on 27 April 2005 decided to formally request Greece to change its law 3310/2005 which prevents companies 'interconnected' with Greek mass media businesses from participating in procedures for the award of public contracts. The Commission considered that this law was against the Community directives on public procurement and the principal of equal treatment of the participants, as well as the exercise of almost all the fundamental freedoms acknowledged by the EC Treaty.