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• New ways and limits of administrative sanctioning, in particular with regards to the ne bis in idem principle

  7-25

  Zsuzsanna Árva

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  222

  The system of sanctions is a key element of law enforcement, so it is of particular importance to have a clear and doctrinally based system of sanctions. However, new areas and issues are emerging in the field of administrative sanctions which call into question principles previously thought to be clear and push them in new directions. One such issue is the question of complementary sanctions, which has raised the question of the permissibility of parallel sanctions and is closely linked to the principle of ne bis in idem. The paper outlines the framework in which the main issues of administrative sanctioning arise and shows how they interact. It looks at how fundamental international decisions may affect the frontier issues of administrative sanctions, how Strasbourg and EU practice has evolved, and how this has affected domestic law.

• About the necessity of a new criminal act: or notes on the criminal offense of agreement in restraint of competition in public procurement and concession procedures

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  Zsolt Tibor Szabó

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  598

  The criminal act included in Subsection 1 Section 420 of Act C of 2012 on the Criminal Code (hereinafter referred to as Criminal Code) is the only one in the entire Criminal Code where the disposition includes the public procurement procedure as an element of the criminal act. In spite of this, further punishable criminal acts may be associated with the public procurement procedure which are inevitably committed or  completed in terms of the legal stadia of the crime, provided that any criminal relationship is established between the parties when public funds are allocated during the course of a tendering procedure.

  The non-exhaustive examples of the – examined – conduct subject to proceedings show that the basis of an unfair public procurement procedure is the committing of any of the corruption criminal offenses, and then, after the public procurement procedure had been concluded, the felony of agreement in restraint of competition will constitute the criminal act without prejudice to the ne bis in idem principle, i.e. the criminal act specified in Subsection (1) Section 420 of the Criminal Code is not the definition of public procurement corruption. In order to verify this, I will outline what I personally understand as public procurement corruption.

  The primary aim of the study is to support the argument that the delict referred to above is unable to fulfil the intention of the legislator, namely decreasing public procurement corruption. As a secondary focus,  the reasons behind the necessity of a new criminal act are referred to.