Page 4432 Corpus Juris No. 389/2000 Section 161

(Consolidated working version )

The Government of the Slovak Republic pursuant to Article 83, Par. 3 of the Act No. 263/1999 Corpus Juris on Public Procurement and on Modification and Amendment of Some Acts within the Wording of Act No. 557/2001 Corpus Juris as stemming from Modifications and Amendments made by Act No. 530/2002 Corpus Juris (hereinafter referred to only as the "Act") shall order:

Article 1

This regulation regulates details on publication of prior information notices, contract notices and contract award notices (hereinafter referred to only as the „notice“) in the Journal of Public Procurement (hereinafter referred to only as the "Journal") and the way by which the procuring entity may provide access to the data published in the Journal via telecommunications
devices ¹), mainly via Internet. Further, it regulates details on publication of contract documents.

(1) The Journal shall publish only those data the publication of which is stipulated by the Act.

(2) The Journal shall be issued by the Office for Public Procurement (hereinafter referred to only as "the Office").

(3) The original of the notice is the groundwork for publication of the notice in the Journal which the procuring entity shall dispatch by registered mail, by fax, by electronic means^1a) or deliver personally. If the procuring entity acts in accordane with Article 44 Par. 4 of the Act or Article 49 Par. 2 of the Act the same shall dispatch the original of the notice by fax, by electronic means or deliver personally.The procuring entity shall document the dispatch date of the original of the notice. The person who has dispatched the groundwork for publication is responsible for the content correctness thereof. The Office is responsible for the conformity of the published data with the provided groundwork. Any printer´s errors in the Journal shall be corrected by publication of the editorial errata notice.

(4) The Office is authorized to perform editorial improvements of the data that are to be published in the Journal, without changing the essential content and the meaning of the published data or information.

(5) The Office shall ensure the opportunity to any person concerned to buy or subscribe the Journal at a set price.

(1) The procuring entity may provide access to the data defined in the notice via telecommunications devices not earlier than on the day following the publication date of the notice in the Journal, in the same wording as the notice published in the Journal.

(2) The procuring entity may provide access to the data defined in the contract documents via telecommunications devices not earlier than 12 days before the deadline determined for submitting tenders, in the same wording as the contract documents provided to the tenderers.

(3) The obligation of the procuring entity to provide the written form of the contract documents and the obligation of the tenderer or the candidate to ask in writing the procuring entity for the contract documents are not abolished by providing access to the data listed in the contract documents via telecommunications devices.

(1) Where a discrepancy is detected between the content of the written notice published in the Journal and the content of the notice accessible via telecommunications devices, the written notice shall prevail.

(2) Where a discrepancy is detected between the content of the written form of the contract documents and the content of the contract documents accesible via telecommunications devices, the written form shall prevail.

The regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 2001.

The regulation of the Government of the Slovak Republic No. 721 as of 11 December 2002 shall enter into force on 1 January 2003.