The new book of the European Procurement Law Series by the European Procurement Law Group is now out. Its on qualification, selection and exclusion in EU public procurement and edited by Martin Burgi, Martin Trybus and Steen Treumer.
One of my chapters (on Portugal) is freely available on SSRN.
I have just uploaded to SSRN a new working paper on the failure of the successive rounds of Directives in solving the direct cross-border issue. In short, home bias is as almost as present today as it was in the 1960s. For this one I dabbed a bit outside the
The European Commission put out last week a non-paper on the interpretation and application of the Kolin and Qingdao cases for economic operators coming from third countries. This is a fairly cautious document and probably the most the Commission can do at the moment and in this Q&A
Earlier this week the Commission put out a summary of the findings on the public procurement consultation for the revision of the procurement Directives. Albert has a great entry on the findings of the consultation but I will be taking a different view on this one. In total the consultation
PAN (Greens/EFA) Of all parties represented in the Portuguese Parliament, PAN is the smallest and the only party with a proper, thoughtful set of proposals for public procurement. For the most part they are detailed and up to the point. It is a shame the other parties have not