Interestingly, there is however, a remarkable difference between the tenders financed by international financial institutions and tenders financed by the European Institutions, i.e. EU and EIB, which seems to be at the root of the contractual problems in Poland and in other CEE countries. Whereas the World Bank and other International Financial Institutions that provide co-financing for infrastructure construction projects require well established sample forms of contract for works to be used, the European Institutions impose this condition only with respect to their financial support for so-called “third countries”, i.e. outside the EU For financial support, such as Structural and Cohesion Funds, whereas within the EU, the EU – until recently – had not taken any precautions. The underlying reason for such approach is that well-established local standard forms existed in Western Europe, such as, for example, in Austria öNORM B 2110, in Germany, VOB/B, in Denmark, AB 92 and ABT 93, in France and Belgium, CCAG, in Italy, DPR 207/2010, and in the Netherlands, UAV