The Project Technical Monitoring Team (UTAP) under the Ministry of Finance has not published public-private partnership data since the fourth quarter of 2020. The absence of information is indicated by the Budget Technical Support Group of the Assembly of the Republic. , which was unable to analyze PPP income and expenses for 2021.
Information on PPPs “has been published with great unevenness and with great delay, as the most recent information on this issue is from the fourth quarter of 2020 and was published in November 2021,” the organization said in a report published in this document. a week.
Thus, the large time lag between the time of publication of UTAP and the reporting period, as well as the lack of regularity in these publications, is criticized by UTAO, which does not allow for the usual analysis for 2021.
UTAO also recalls a parliamentary ruling that recommends that statistical producers disclose a calendar showing dates of publication of information on the Internet, “it is prohibited to disclose either before or after the date assumed in the calendar of each institution”, which UTAP does not comply with.
The fees are 1.4 billion.
A public-private partnership (PPP) is expected to be worth 1.4 billion euros this year, according to the state budget, the most recent document with data on these agreements, but without details of the analysis carried out by the Project Technical Monitoring Team (UTAP). The cost forecast until the end of the last contract – until 2062 – is updated annually in the state budget. There are currently 35 contracts, mostly automotive, and Oceanário de Lisboa has recently joined this lot.
Author: Raquel Oliveira
Source: CM Jornal
