"The Coalition government expects contract conditions to be met by any service provider".
The contract conditions, which allow HKND to operate the canal for 100 years, have also drawn criticism.
Tougher contract conditions, greater transparency, better performance monitoring and harsher penalties for failure would all help taxpayers to get a better deal.
BP declined to comment on the grounds that the contract was confidential, but industry sources said the oil company had always insisted any changes in the contract conditions were for "clarification purposes" only.
A spokesman for the immigration minister, Peter Dutton, said the department was investigating a number of concerns raised about IHMS, adding the government "expects contract conditions to be met by any service provider".
The legislation foresees cases in which actions "lead to a significant change to the economic interests of the Republic of Kazakhstan, causing a national security threat, and it gives the government the right to ask to change the contract conditions," said Valery Kotovich, one of the legislation's authors, according to the Kazakhstan Today press agency.
The F.A.A. declared an impasse in September 2006 with the union, and Ms. Blakey imposed contract conditions, with sharply lowered pay for new hires, with pay caps for many controllers, spending more time on their radar scopes during the day and a host of smaller changes that some controllers say they find infuriating.
The SLA contract conditions. .
Contract design details the final arrangements and a system agreed with the owner, and satisfies the building contract conditions.
"For the scientists [too], it is good because it lets them [negotiate] to get better contract conditions".
