Public Procurement

Commission publishes new financial thresholds for 2020 and 2021

Pedro Telles

Nov 15, 2019

Like clockwork every two years, the Commission has published the new financial thresholds which will be in force for 2020 and 2021. For the most part they are simply slightly revised values based on the changing of value of the euro in relation the IMF’s Special Drawing Rights, with the exception of the light touch regime which remains unaltered as it is not affected by the GPA commitments. The euro values are here and the pounds ones here.

The procurement Directive(s) is(are) getting reviewed

Last week, in her speech on the political guidelines for her new term as Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen announced the following in relation to public procurement: "We must also make better use of public procurement – which accounts for 14% of EU GDP. A 1% efficiency gain in

New publication availabe

I've just uploaded to SSRN my (draft) entry for the forthcoming Elgar Encyclopedia of EU Law. It's on general principles and here's the abstract: "Public procurement regulation within the EU is subject to a mixture of primary, secondary law and case law. This

Portugal's upcoming procurement law(s) review

A flipside of having commented on the recent Portuguese general election party manifestos is that I now have a record of proposals. None paid much attention to procurement and certainly no one suggested a profound revision of the Public Contracts Code. Fast forward a mere 4 months and that is

The UK General Election manifestos procurement promises: Greens

Out of the manifestos analysed, the Green Party one is by far the shortest. It is unsurprising then that there is not much to be found about procurement in it. The only proposal it contains is that they will campaign to bring the Prompt Payment Code into law and debar

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The procurement Directive(s) is(are) getting reviewed

New publication availabe

Portugal's upcoming procurement law(s) review

The UK General Election manifestos procurement promises: Greens