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Recent Developments in UK Public Procurement Regulation
Sanchez-Graells, Albert - 2022
This country report provides an overview of recent developments in UK public procurement regulation, including the Post-Brexit rulebook reform, the proposal of special rules for healthcare services commissioning, the procurement chapter in the UK-Australia Free Trade Agreement, and a recent...
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The WTO’s Revised Government Procurement Agreement - An Important Milestone Toward Greater Market Access and Transparency in Global Public Procurement Markets
Anderson, Robert D. - 2012
In December of 2011, the Parties to the World Trade Organization Government Procurement Agreement (GPA) adopted significant revisions to the Agreement. The revised Agreement comprises (a) a much-needed modernization of the text of the Agreement, (b) an expansion of related market-access...
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Socially Responsible Public Procurement Under EU Law and International Agreements : The GPA, CETA and the EU-Ukraine Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area
Semple, Abby - 2018
The 2014 EU procurement directives contain a greatly expanded set of provisions relating to socially responsible public procurement (SRPP). From the application of higher thresholds and ability to limit competition for certain contracts through to the use of social award criteria and contract...
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Are the Procurement Rules a Barrier for Cross-Border Trade within the European Market? A View on Proposals to Lower that Barrier and Spur Growth
Sanchez-Graells, Albert - 2012
Public procurement rules were introduced in the European legal system as a device mainly intended to help build an effective internal market where competition is not distorted, in search for economic development. According to the supporting Cecchini Report, increasing cross-border competition...
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The Growing Thicket of Multi-Layered Procurement Liberalisation between WTO GPA Parties, as Evidenced in Post-Brexit UK
Sanchez-Graells, Albert - 2022
The World Trade Organisation Government Procurement Agreement (GPA) has created the most comprehensive plurilateral system for procurement-related trade liberalisation. However, there has been a proliferation of free trade agreements (FTAs) regulating public procurement liberalisation, including...
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Restricting freedom of contract : the EU foreign subsidies regulation and its consequences for public procurement
Kania, Michał; Andhov, Marta - In: Journal of public procurement : JoPP 24 (2024) 1, pp. 21-41
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Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment Incentives : Subsidy Competition in an Oligopolistic Framework
Havranek, Tomas - 2014
. Author applies the classical models of oligopoly to subsidy competition, endogenousing investment incentives, but leaving tax … rates exogenous. According to the conventional wisdom, subsidy competition leads to overprovision of incentives. This paper … subsidies. Further, in the setting of subsidy regulation, the host country's corporate income tax rate has an ambiguous effect …
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The relationship between services trade and government procurement commitments : insights from relevant WTO agreements and recent RTAs
Anderson, Robert D.; Locatelli, Claudia; Müller, Anna … - 2014 - Manuscript date: 24 October, 2014
To date, government procurement has been effectively carved out of the main multilateral rules of the WTO system. This paper examines the systemic and other ramifications of this exclusion, from both an economic and a legal point of view. In addition to relevant elements of the WTO Agreements,...
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Public Procurement Financial Thresholds in the EU and Their Relationship with the GPA
Telles, Pedro - 2016
The regulation of procurement within the European Union is binary: above certain financial thresholds, contracts are subject to full EU regulation, whereas below they are only subject to national rules (in general). First introduced in the 1970s, the financial thresholds are arbitrary without a...
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The European Central Bank and EU procurement law : a comparative outlook
Lindeiner, Fabian von; Bitti, Giuseppe; Hermans, Michelle - 2019
Procurement law is rising in importance year after year. According to the European Commission, public procurement now accounts for over 14% of the EU's gross domestic product. Also at the ECB, spending through procurement is growing, and the evolution of its procurement law from non- binding...
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