This article is concerned with the nature and application of the most-favoured-nation (MFN) principle under the World Trade Organization's (WTO's) plurilateral Government Procurement Agreement (WTO GPA). After establishing the context of the WTO GPA, the paper first assesses how the MFN...

The revised World Trade Organization (WTO) Government Procurement Agreement (GPA), which came into force on April 6, 2014, provides a limited number of WTO Members with a framework for ensuring that the tenders scheduled under the Appendix to WTO GPA are conducted in a competitive,...

This paper identifies the positive regulatory externalities that can be realised from the WTO Government Procurement Agreement (WTO GPA), Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) and other international conventions with public procurement provisions. It submits that despite the multiplicity of...

This article identifies the positive regulatory externalities that can be realised from the WTO Government Procurement Agreement (“WTO GPA”), Regional Trade Agreements (“RTAs”) and other international conventions with public procurement provisions. It submits that despite the...

This article assesses the European Commission's 2016 Amended Proposal for ‘a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the access of third-country goods and services to the Union's internal market in public procurement and procedures supporting negotiations on access of Union...