A warning letter to Prime Minister and Minister of Communications Ariel Sharon and Minister of Finance Benjamin Netanyahu is being considered.
Bezeq (TASE:BZEQ) is considering the use of legal measures against the Gronau committee report recommendation to lower its rates by an average of 5.5%. The matter will be discussed at today’s board of directors meeting, at which the specially commissioned legal opinion of Adv. Israel Kantor will be heard.
Sources inform “Globes” that the matter was raised by one of the company directors. The director asserted that Bezeq was owed a rate revision, based on the recommendations of the previous Gronau committee report from 1998, which were not implemented. He claimed this gives Bezeq grounds for suing the state, and the results of the claim could affect the implementation of the current report.
The sources added that a legal warning to the responsible ministers, Prime Minister and Minister of Communications Ariel Sharon and Minister of Finance Benjamin Netanyahu, is being considered.
Bezeq representatives met this week with committee chairman Prof. Reuben Gronau in the office of government secretary Yisrael Maimon, whom Sharon made responsible for implementation of the Gronau committee report. Bezeq has reportedly already presented to the committee and the responsible ministers an opinion by Prof. Amir Barnea countering the committee recommendations. The committee is now waiting for a further opinion commissioned by Bezeq from Prof. Haim Ben Shahar, and will then publish its answer to Bezeq’s objections.
Published by Globes [online] - www.globes.co.il - on June 12, 2003