In 2020, the news website ‘reporter.lu’ first revealed irregularities in the management of the Superdreckskëscht initiative. Now, it has been determined that the contract between the company operating Superdreckskëscht and the Ministry of the Environment is not legally binding.
Last week, the parliamentary group of the Christian Social People’s Party (CSV) called for full transparency in the Superdreckskëscht case. The 2018 contract between the Ministry of the Environment and the company ‘Oeko-Service Lëtzebuerg’, which was signed for a ten-year period, has no legal basis, according to the opposition party. The contract is worth about €97 million.
On Monday, the members of the parliamentary commissions for the environment and budgetary control had the opportunity to question Minister for the Environment Carole Dieschbourg. A “very stimulating discussion”, according to the Minister, who made the announcement that she had presented a new draft bill to the state council on Friday. This new draft bill now includes the financing of Superdreckskëscht, i.e., “the amount, which was not included in the law from 2005", Dieschbourg explained. She commended the Chamber of Deputies’ Scientific Unit for having done “a very good job of research” in the Superdreckskëscht case.
However, this retroactive regularisation does not affect the current contract, which is to remain valid. For the opposition, this does not go far enough.
MP Sven Clement from the Pirate Party stated that while regularising would have been “absolutely acceptable” to his party “from 2018 to today”, the opposition party “would have liked to see the contract renegotiated”.
After the discussions, which lasted two hours, the CSV gave the Minister another chance to think about tendering again under different conditions than in 2017.
“We are not the only party with reservations”, CSV MP Diane Adehm stated. Adehm called on Dieschbourg to think about whether she really wants to pass this law by merely relying on her government’s majority in the Chamber of Deputies. Instead, Adehm explained, the Minister could “really take the existing audits and legal opinions to heart” and find a solution that will secure a broader support in the Chamber of Deputies.
The full report in Luxembourgish by RTL Télé:
