Inside Asian Gaming

IAG JUL 2022年7月 亞博匯 58 IN FOCUS Finally, drafts of new concession contracts will be drawn up, based upon the new Macau gaming law, the Tender Opening dispatch, and the proposals of the tenderers. Even at this stage, I expect negotiations to be ongoing, with the bidders able to provide feedback to the Tender Commission on the draft contracts. After the deadline for these negotiations passes, and the concession contracts are set in stone, the Chief Executive will issue a dispatch announcing provisional winners of the concessions based upon the recommendations of the Tender Commission. These concessions will be provisional based on the specific performance of certain acts, after which the provisional concessions may become final. For example, the provisional winners may have to issue a certain amount of share capital. Budget a couple of weeks for this, which puts us at the 2nd or second or third week of December! Once all necessary conditions have been met, the Chief Executive will issue yet another dispatch, announcing the final winners of the concessions. After this, there will be a ceremony to sign the concession contracts. This won’t take long, perhaps a week, but this now puts us deep into December – likely after Christmas! And last of all, once all the above is complete and the concession contracts have been signed, the Secretary for Economy and Finance will write a letter to the winning concessionaires, giving them approval to begin operations from a certain date, presumably Saturday 1 January 2023. The last full working day of the year for government workers is Friday 30 December. Don’t be surprised if we see the signing ceremony that morning, with the operations approval letter being sent to winning concessionaires that afternoon – with just hours to spare before midnight at the end of 31 December. Happy New Year! 或者兩者兼而有之。委員會的職責是為 政府乃至澳門人民爭取最好的條件。這 些談判可能會持續30天左右，這時我們 已經來到12月初。 最後，新的博彩經營批給合同草 案將按照澳門新博彩法、招標文件及投 標者的提案擬就。即使已經來到這個階 段，我預計談判仍在進行之中，投標人 將就合同草案向競投委員會提供反饋。 在談判的最後期限過後，新的經營批給 合同確定，行政長官將根據競投委員會 的建議發佈公告，公佈臨時批給。這些 批給可能是基於某些行為的具體表現是 臨時的，譬如要求臨時獲批給者可能必 須發行一定數量的股本，而在那之後便 可能成為確定的最終結果。 我們預留幾周在此，現在已經來到 12月第2或第3周。 一旦所有必要條件得到滿足，行政 長官將再次發佈公函，宣佈最終的判給 結果。之後，將舉辦博彩經營批給合同 的簽字儀式，不會花費太久時間，也許 一周左右。但現在已經是12月，所以可 能在聖誕節後。 最後，當上述各項工作完成，所有 博彩經營批給合同得到簽署後，經濟財 政司司長將致函勝出的承批公司，批准 他們在某一日期開始營運，時間大概是 2023年1月1日週六。 公務員一年中最後一個完整工作日 是12月30日星期五。所以如果當天上午 舉行簽字儀式也並不令人感到驚訝。當天 下午，營運批給函件將被發送至中標的競 投公司——此時距離12月31日的午夜只剩 約幾個小時。那麼，新年快樂！