Court of Auditors Investigates Large-scale Testing Strategy

As reported in other local media, Luxembourg's Court of Auditors has launched an investigation into the Grand Duchy's large-scale testing strategy.

The investigation aims to determine whether procedures and laws were respected when selecting service providers as well as examining how the strategy is financed.

The probe follows claims by competing laboratories that the strategy favoured Laboratoires Réunis, the only firm to have access to the technology required for the so-called "Fast Track Diagnostics" kit. Laboratoires Réunies ultimately won the large-scale testing contract.

As the free large-scale testing strategy now moves towards a first-come, first-served (rather than invitation-based) approach, rival laboratories like Bionext and Ketterthill, which charge for testing, risk losing business.

The parliamentary commission on budgetary control has now drawn up a list of 20 questions, on which the Court of Auditors will base its report.