Several advocacy groups complain of unpaid state
Several groups have urged the French government this week to catch up on overdue payments estimated at two billion euros due to a failure of a computer system.
On Friday, the giant European aerospace and defense group EADS, which published its interim results, has come to be inscribed on a list of providers dissatisfied with the state which already Safran, Thales and Dassault Aviation.
According to several speakers, these delays are attributed to the introduction of payment system inter Chorus, which records problems since late 2009.
On 12 May, the French Ministry of Defence said he was determined to catch up on by the end of the summer.To date, some 3.8 billion euros of commitments had been paid since January 1, or 55% of the amount paid to manufacturers last year at the same time.
"For the defense sector as a whole, delays (current) is estimated at around two billion euros," said Friday a spokesman for the grouping of French aerospace industries (GIFAS).
A cell involving two other organizations have asked the government to act, "he added.
Dassault Aviation said on Thursday waiting for payments equivalent to 200 million euros.For Safran, the addition amounts to some 270 million.
"We are also concerned," said Friday Hans Peter Ring, chief financial officer of EADS, in conjunction with the presentation of interim financial statements of the company, without giving further details.
A spokesman of the Directorate General for Armaments (DGA) stressed that the system delay payments Chorus affected several departments.
According to the Ministry of Budget, the Chorus system was designed by the German specialist software and SAP software.
An SAP spokesman declined to comment Friday and said that this case should be reviewed by the French government.
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