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Brussels exhorts Lithuania to abolish the barriers to the allocation of harbour areas
The Lithuanian legislation guarantees a preemptive right to the terminals operator for renews of theirs contracted of concession
June 22, 2012
The EU commission has sent an opinion motivated to Lithuania because the Baltic nation comes to an agreement a preemptive right to the terminals operator for renews once of theirs contracted of relative concession to the harbour areas that this reaches expiration. The Commission has evidenced that terminalisti of other Member States that wants to be installed in the Lithuanian ports they could be dissuaded making it because of this disposition.
A Lithuanian law previews that the harbour areas are assigned to the operators exclusively through a contest procedure, with the exception of the cases in which the titular operator of the concession in expiration does not exercise its preemptive right for renews of the contract. The concessionaire acquires such right when he satisfies all included the relative clauses to cargo handling in the concession contract.
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