The court violated the law during the construction of the judicial complex in Brno

Brno - The Regional Court in Brno erred years ago in the construction of the Brno judicial complex costing nearly two billion crowns. The court violated the public procurement law. The fine of 200,000 crowns, imposed by the Office for the Protection of Competition (ÚOHS), was recently upheld by the Regional Court in Hradec Králové. The antimonopoly office announced this today in a press release, stating that the Hradec court dismissed the complaint from the Brno court.
    The Regional Court in Brno, according to its spokesperson Miroslava Sedláčková, will consider its next steps. "We do not yet know the justification for the decision, so we have to wait for the delivery of the judgment,” Sedláčková told ČTK today.
        The fine was imposed by ÚOHS in the middle of last year. It objected to the use of an option for additional works amounting to over 233 million crowns excluding VAT. According to ÚOHS, the option was used in violation of the public procurement law. The scope of additional works increased by more than 100 percent compared to the original estimate. The decision of ÚOHS only concerned the construction of the smaller of the two buildings in the complex.
        The entire tender was previously examined by the Supreme Audit Office (NKÚ) and the police, due to the increase in construction costs from the originally estimated 786 million crowns to nearly two billion.
        The Regional Court in Brno disagreed with ÚOHS's findings and filed a complaint against the decision. However, lawsuits filed against the binding decisions of ÚOHS are precisely decided by the Regional Court in Brno. The Brno court subsequently referred the case to the Supreme Administrative Court, which passed it to Hradec Králové.