Enforcement of out-of-court settlement between the Greek State and Siemens

31.10.2014

Question for written answer E-008580-14
to the Commission
Rule 130
Dimitrios Papadimoulis (GUE/NGL)

In 2012, the Greek State and the German company Siemens signed an out-of-court settlement (Law 4072/2012), under which Greece withdraws civil and administrative claims against the Company, in return for a financial settlement. Specifically, Siemens must pay the Greek State EUR 80 million in connection with offset claims from certain public projects and EUR 90 million to fund educational and other activities to combat corruption and must invest EUR 100 million in Greece via its activities.

In view of the above, will the Commission say:

If it is aware of how closely Siemens is abiding by the above out-of-court settlement? Which public projects were concerned by the claims offset between the Greek State and Siemens and how many of those were being co-financed by Community resources?

If it has initiated an investigation into possible infringements of Community public procurement legislation on the part of the company Siemens and, if so, regarding which specific projects and in which countries?