Traduction de «contrat sur appel d'offres » (Français → Anglais) :

1. In good time before the consumer is bound by any credit agreement or offer, the creditor and, where applicable, the credit intermediary shall, on the basis of the credit terms and conditions offered by the creditor and, if applicable, the preferences expressed and information supplied by the consumer, provide the consumer with the information needed to compare different offers in order to take an informed decision on whether to conclude a credit agreement.

1. Conclusion of a contract: i.e. notion of offer, acceptance, counteroffer, revocation of an offer, time of conclusion of a contract.

Those findings are not called in question by the fact that, since the adoption of the Italian Ministerial Decree of 2 February 1994 (G.U.R.I. No 34 of 11 February 1994), which increased the number of representatives of national road-haulier associations on the central committee from 12 to 17, the representatives of the economic agents are no longer in the minority on the central committee, or by the fact that, according to the information provided by the Italian Government, the 'Inter-ministerial Price Committee', a consultative body, was replaced by a body called 'the Italian Price and Tariffs Monitoring Authority', or by the fact that the Italian Law maintained the extension of tariffs to various services, such ...[+++] as contracts under invitation to tender and contracts for hire.

By its first two questions, the national court is asking essentially whether Articles 3(f) and (g), 5, 85, 86 and 90 of the Treaty preclude legislation of a Member State which provides for road-haulage tariffs to be approved and brought into force by the State on the basis of proposals submitted by a central committee the majority of whose members are representatives of the economic operators concerned and which extends the mandatory tariffs applicable in the road-haulage sector to other types of contracts, relating to different services, such ...[+++] as, in particular, contracts under invitations to tender and contracts for hire.

Not only does this denote a denial of transparency and information, but it is also an obvious reflection of the desire, or lack of concern, on the part of the Government to try to really reduce waste and misspending when it comes to contracts with companies outside the government (1640) Where subcontracting is concerned, in connection with contracts of under $30,000 with no tendering process, I can personally tell you that I have met a number of people who are familiar with all the tricks used within the public service, all those readily implemented tricks that can be used to get impressive amounts out of the government, under the pretex ...[+++]t that they are non-tendered, non-competitive contracts.

The few times contracts have been awarded without a call for tenders have been in cases like this one; the minister has to be convinced that circumstances require a contract to be awarded without a call for tenders.