Three words, Donald: Government Procurement Agreement
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Article 73 - European preference requirements
Article 73 creates the operational requirements that public buyers are to consider when implementing European preference requirements. Effectively, this article allows but does not mandate the discrimination of economic operators, goods, services and works. This is an Article that requires a careful side-by-side reading with Articles 71 and
Article 72 - Restrictions on covered economic operators, goods, services or works
This article provides the Commission with wide ranging powers to introduce amendments to Article 70 via delegated acts, effectively excluding economic operators, goods, services or works from certain third-countries from being considered covered. As such, if the Commission were to exercise this power, for example, it could bar American
Article 71 - Determining the scope of coverage for third-country covered economic operators, goods, services or works
Article 71 establishes a barebones set of rules on how to determine the scope of coverage for third country economic operators, goods, services and works. It is composes of two main elements: an online tool to be developed by the Commission (paras 1 and 3) and an obligation for public
Reflecting on the new nature of procurement as a system in the Public Procurement Act proposal
I have long described the architecture of procurement rules within the EU as a system designed not to enable great procurement but instead for impede really bad procurement. In essence it is a painting by numbers or a 'follow the recipe' approach that allows people with limited knowledge