The Public Enterprise Roads of Serbia and Austrian Alpina signed a memorandum harmonizing the price of the newly-built bridge across Danube near Beska, by which they agree that the bridge costs RSD 5.64 billion, Assistant Director General of Roads of Serbia Slavoljub Tubic stated.

The memorandum harmonizes 42 out of 43 items in the talks regarding the price, Tubic told Tanjug late Thursday, and added that the document was signed in Belgrade on January 24.

Tubic also said that the basic agreement on the construction of the bridge from 2006 envisaged the price of RSD 2.9 billion, and that around EUR 43 million has been paid so far.

Minister of Infrastructure and Energy Milutin Mrkonjic told journalists earlier that the difference in price was caused because the bridge is built by the modern standard of FIDIC Yellow Book, which envisages that the contractor is entrusted with the job based on the preliminary design, after which he drafts the main project.

Minister Mrkonjic said that all the necessary works could not be predicted, because this is a large bridge, 2.2 km-long plus access roads.