Only two bids have been submitted for a concession on Zagreb Airport, an incomplete one by the Swiss-Austrian consortium Airport Zurich/Strabag AG, and the other by the French consortium Zagreb Airport International Company.
The French consortium offers a fixed concession fee in the amount of EUR 87.27 million, it was said at the bid-opening at the transport and infrastructure ministry on Monday.
The decision on the bid will be made by the Croatian government within 100 days.
The concession, which the government is giving for 30 years, envisages the construction of a new passenger terminal and the management of the existing and the new terminal and their infrastructure.
Investment in the first stage of construction of the new terminal is estimated at EUR 190 million.
Earlier today, the airport workers' representative on an expert commission for the concession, Ante Dujic, asked that the bid-opening be postponed, saying the commission did not have legitimacy, as it had been appointed by an interim government.
In a letter to the commission, Dujic said the law on the transfer of authority stipulates that, from the day when an election is called, the government must not sign valuable contracts, adding that the Zagreb Airport concession was certainly a valuable contract.
He recalled that unions and workers had publicly stated a number of times that giving Zagreb Airport into concession was "unreasonable and disgraceful" as well as that it was a very bad business move, as a foreign company was being allowed to operate a profitable domestic company for 30 or more years.
