Public Procurement

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Pedro Telles

May 16, 2017

1. Labour's electoral manifesto commits to keep the UK in the Government Procurement Agreement. Well, to accede to the GPA in my view.

2. Plaid Cymru's manifesto calls for more local procurement. Well, if the GPA is part of the discussion, then there is no real significant extra scope for industrial policy.

3. Valencia Regional Government wants to debar undertakings that do not pay their taxes (Spanish only). Well, tell the Central Government to transpose Directive 2014/24/EU then...

4. Entry into force of the new rules on public procurement in Belgium. Fashionably late.

5. Fines imposed by Belgian Competition Authority for cartel involving Infrabel public contract.

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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