Details of Slovakia’s new principles for implementing offsets were premiered at the SMi conference on Offsets in Central and Eastern Europe last month. The Slovakian government approved the new approach in December 2007...
Hungary is seriously thinking of eliminating the concept of net and gross offset. While no decision has yet been taken, Dr. Sándor Szabó, Offset Director at Hungary’s Ministry of Economy and Transport (MET), signalled that guideline changes are expected soon. Discussions have still to take place on the details...
The Czech Republic has not experienced much success with pre-offset activity and there is a view within the Offset Committee that these transactions should be abandoned...
The Bulgarian government has established a permanent Inter-ministerial Council of Special-Purpose Public Procurements (ICSPOA) at deputy minister level to approve offset projects and agreements...