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New paper available

Pedro Telles

26 Sep 2017

I have just co-authored a paper with Grith Skovgaard Olykke from Copenhagen Business School about how compliance requirements are creeping up in EU public procurement law, particularly in the field of sustainability.

Here's the abstract:

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The paper was published on a special edition of the EPPPL co-edited by Marta Andrecka from the University of Copenhagen.

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