Three COP 21 organizers have been ordered to pay fines of 500 to 1,000 euros for violating public procurement rules, the Court of Budgetary and Financial Discipline (CDBF) announced on Friday.
All three depend on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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The secretary general of COP 21 and the chief of protocol will have to pay a fine of 1000 euros and the deputy director of logistics, interpretation and translation a fine of 500 euros, indicates the Court in an anonymized decree.
In particular, they are accused of not having organized calls for tenders and competition for certain services which required it.
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Aggravating circumstances were retained by the Court, which considered that the three organizers “
were aware of most of the irregularities committed or that they saw their attention drawn to these risks
”.
But the CDBF also recognized that the climate conference which took place at Le Bourget in 2015, giving rise to the Paris Agreements, "
was an event in many respects exceptional, the organization of which put pressure on the actors in charge of its preparation a very heavy obligation of results
”.
The Court accepted this argument as a mitigating circumstance.
