/ world today news/ A criminal sale of the BDZ freight transport enterprise is imminent, the Sofia socialists revealed in their declaration. The reason for the alarm, albeit at the last minute, is that this is a transaction of the type of privatization of the ERPs.
1. The transaction is illegal because it contradicts the Law on Privatization and Post-Privatization Control, which determines the procedure for carrying out privatization transactions of companies in list #1.
2. According to the Railway Transport Act, it is required to have a 10-year program (which there is none) for the development of the industry, from which it can be seen that this part of the enterprise, which mainly bears the railway’s income, can be sold without harm.
3. There is speculation about the recommendations of the EC, which do not exist for this enterprise, and at the same time there is no full-fledged, specific analysis, carried out by competent persons, of the overall condition of BDZ-holding, which would prove the need for this action.
The management’s claim that the money from this sale will stabilize the holding financially is false, as the real amount will be criminally small and the damage irreparable. It is vandalism to use the national wealth built by many generations of Bulgarians to enrich foreign companies, which automatically, receiving this “golden hen” for nothing, become monopolists on the market in Bulgaria and in the region.
There is a huge threat that the related production activities will be exported from the country, which will lead to the closure of many more jobs and a drastic increase in the army of unemployed.
Freight transport of any country is an essential element of its national security, and railway transport is its backbone. Whether privatization is the right move needs to be reassessed.
The EU program for the development of freight transport emphasizes the transport of containers. In this regard, a special place is given to the corridor through Bulgaria and the development of container terminals along our Black Sea coast. A constant increase in transport is foreseen in the coming years, with the EU itself participating in the Transport programme.
Despite the judicial appeal of the procedure, due to suspicions of malpractice, and regardless of the scheduled date of the case being 19.04.2013, the Government is in a hurry to finalize the transaction by the end of March.
Since the beginning of the year, BDZ “Tovarni prevozi” unilaterally terminates contracts with its customers, without reason or explanation, regardless of whether they are still valid. The goal is clearly to further deepen the company’s financial problems and even more drastically reduce its price.
For this reason, the headquarters of the Socialists of Legge insist:
The deal for the sale of the company for freight transport of BDZ to be stopped until the arrival of a legitimate government, the ruling of the Supreme Administrative Court and the new National Assembly. This should be done by this Parliament, the President and the Supervisory Board of the Privatization Agency.
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