Analysis: The secret Agreement regarding the Chinese Highway in BiH
Resumo
Data informada: 7 Jul 2022
Localização: Bósnia e Herzegovina
Empresas
Shandong International Economic & Technical Cooperation Group (part of SDHS) - Client , Shandong Hi-Speed International (SDHS) - SponsorProjetos
Banja Luka – Prijedor highway - SiteAfetados
Total de pessoas afetadas: Número desconhecido
Public: ( Número desconhecido - Bósnia e Herzegovina , Construção de Estradas , Gender not reported )Temas
Acesso à Informação , Corruption , CumplicidadeResposta
Resposta solicitada: Sim, por Business and Human Rights Resource Centre
História contendo resposta (Saiba mais)
Tipo de fonte: News outlet
Resumo
Data informada: 8 Fev 2021
Localização: Bósnia e Herzegovina
Empresas
Shandong International Economic & Technical Cooperation Group (part of SDHS) - Client , Shandong Hi-Speed International (SDHS) - SponsorProjetos
Banja Luka – Prijedor highway - SiteAfetados
Total de pessoas afetadas: 100
Comunidade: ( Número desconhecido - Bósnia e Herzegovina , Construção de Estradas , Gender not reported )Temas
Direito à terra , Displacement , Social Security , ProtestosResposta
Resposta solicitada: Sim, por Business and Human Rights Resource Centre
História contendo resposta (Saiba mais)
Tipo de fonte: News outlet
07 July 2022
Work on the construction of the highway in the northwest of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) should begin in mid-July, under the shadow of criticism due to the secrecy of the concession contract concluded with Chinese investors.
The Banja Luka – Prijedor highway, about forty kilometers long and worth about 297 million euros, will be built by the Chinese company “Shandong Hi-Speed International (SDHS)”.
With that company, the Government of BiH entity Republika Srpska (RS) signed a concession agreement in mid-December 2018.
However, despite the insistence of the civil sector and opposition parties that the Entity Government publish the details of the agreed deal with Chinese investors, the contract is still not available for public inspection...
At the beginning of this year, Transparency International (TI) in BiH launched an administrative dispute against the Ministry of Transport and Communications of the RS. [It] decided to take this step after its request to submit a copy of the concession agreement concluded with the Chinese company was rejected. The representative of TI in BiH, Damjan Ozegovic, told Radio Free Europe (RSE) that he expects a court verdict in favor of this organization, given that it is about data that is hidden from citizens despite being of public interest...