Nearly 30 software companies have delivered this Thursday at the Administrative Court of Aveiro a lawsuit against the Order of Accountants Certificates (OCC), by this entity selling software to accountants, claiming compensation of 11.75 million euros.
“He gave today’s entry, the Administrative and Fiscal Court of Aveiro, a procedural document against OCC, tending to the immediate withdrawal of the software market Toc Online and AFE marketed by OCC,” he told Lusa corporate lawyers, Nuno da Silva Vieira.
The 28 complainants companies, most based in the north and Lisbon, claim that the Order is legally prohibited from performing acts of trade and that the sale of ‘software’ to their accountants calls into because the competition rules.
In addition to the immediate withdrawal from the market of those Order of software products, 28 companies claim compensation of 11.75 million by way of economic losses, image and reputation.
Contacted by Lusa, the president of OCC, Domingues Azevedo, refusal is being committed any illegality: “We are not practicing an act of trade, we are supporting the Order of professionals with new tools that the help fulfill its mission, “he said.
The chairperson also pointed out that the Order does not sell the software to any consumer, but only to accountants, and argued that this exclusivity does not show it is an act of trade.
“The Order must support the members in the exercise of its function, but these professionals exclusively,” said Azevedo Domingues.
One of the complainants companies, Primavera Business Software Solutions, specified Lusa some of the reasons of the lawsuit: “In order meetings, accountants are advised to buy the software in the OCC and to reach say it is the only certificate, which is not true, “said the CEO of the company, José Dionisio.
The businessman, pointing out that neither the law nor the order’s statutes allow the sale of ‘software’, concluded: “It is time for manufacturers to take a stand, that was the reason for the lawsuit.”
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