Those companies who saw their European Union support tenders rejected submitted 1,200 complaints to various agencies between the previous September and June of this year, the National Development Agency (NFÜ) told daily Népszabadság, uniospenz.hu, a part of origo.hu reported. In a third of the instances, the complaints were warranted, which procedures taking on average 52 days.
In some cases, however, consultancies and bidders asked by the daily reported that no decision was made nor a notification sent within the sixty days set for a response to be given. NFÜ conceded that the system contains some faults, but maintained that it was the thoroughness of their process along with unpredictable complaints that slowed things down.