GREECE SCHOOLBOOKS
March 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLGREECE is being threatened with legal action by the European Commission over its failure to abide by European Union (EU) rules insisting on international open tendering for its schoolbook production. The Commission has warned Greece of European Court of Justice action for allowing the national Organisation for the Publication of Schoolbooks to order supplies from between 80-90 Athens-area publishers and printers every year, without launching a tender. The Greek government has claimed that academic demands make tendering too time consuming, but the ...
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