This paper offers a cursory overview of the rules applicable to transparency and disclosure of documents in the context of public procurement of the EU Institutions under the rules of the Financial Regulation, its Rules on Implementation, and the EU FOIA Regulation (Reg 1049/2001). The paper...

This chapter assesses the use of public procurement to enforce labour standards from a competition and State aid perspective, and concentrates on the establishment of contract compliance clauses under the rules of Article 26 of Directive 2004/18/EC and Article 70 of Directive 2014/24/EU and in...

This paper provides a critical assessment of the Feasibility study concerning the actual implementation of a joint cross-border procurement procedure by public buyers from different Member States prepared by BBG-SKI for the European Commission. The paper submits that the study provides some...

Spanish Abstract: El análisis económico del derecho de la contratación pública ha dado lugar a importantes contribuciones relacionadas con el diseño de los contratos desde el punto de vista de los incentivos de los licitadores, así como a avances en la formalización de estudios...

In EasyPay and Finance Engineering (C-185/14), the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has revisited the concept of undertaking for the purposes of the application of EU competition law. It has clarified the test applicable to economic agents engaging in ‘mixed' economic and...

Este artículo reflexiona críticamente acerca de las posibilidades de controlar el comportamiento de mercado del comprador público mediante la aplicación de las normas comunitarias de defensa de la competencia y de contratación pública, con un énfasis particular en su aplicación por la...

In this contribution, I reflect on the role of competition in public procurement regulation and, more specifically, on whether competition should be treated as a regulatory goal, as a general principle of public procurement law, as a specific (implicit or explicit) requirement in discrete legal...

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...

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...

This briefing paper provides a detailed comparison of the differences between the procurement chapter of the UK-Australia Free Trade Agreement (UK-AUS FTA) and the World Trade Organisation Government Procurement Agreement (WTO GPA), to which both the UK and Australia are members. The briefing...