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Buy European, But How? What the Public Consultation on the Revision of the Public Procurement Directives Tells Us About European Preferences and Third-Country Economic Operators

On 27 March 2026, the Commission published the Factual Summary Report on the Public Consultation on the Revision of the Public Procurement Directives. Of the 1,037 responses received, the overwhelming majority came from business-related stakeholders — companies and business associations together make up 47% of respondents, with public authorities at 13%, trade unions at 11%…

Registration Open: “Geopolitics and Public Procurement” Conference — Zagreb, 1 July 2026

The University of Zagreb Faculty of Law and the Croatian Employers’ Association are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the international conference “Geopolitics and Public Procurement”, to be held on 1 July 2026 at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb (Trg Republike Hrvatske 3, Lecture Room III). Attendance is free. Register…

The Industrial Accelerator Act and Public Procurement: A Step Forward, Several Steps Sideways

The European Commission published its proposal for the Industrial Accelerator Act (IAA) on 4 March 2026. The proposal establishes a framework of measures for the acceleration of industrial capacity and decarbonisation in strategic sectors. Pedro Telles has already published a very useful reflection on the proposal on his blog (https://www.telles.eu/some-preliminary-impressions-on-the-industrial-accelerator-act-proposal/), which I recommend reading alongside…

New paper – Transparency or Efficiency? The Prevalence of Arbitration Clauses in Croatian Public Procurement Draft Contracts

New paper out! I spent weeks scraping 17,695 public procurement notices from Croatia’s electronic procurement platform (EOJN) and going through 6,409 draft contracts to answer a question nobody has empirically tackled in Croatia before: how often do contracting authorities actually choose private arbitration over regular courts for resolving public procurement contract disputes? The short answer…

Anti-Coercion Instrument – it’s not a trade bazooka, it’s a trade trebuchet

Anti-Coercion Instrument is in the news again, this time as a potential tool to counter the new tariffs threat from the US. It was not used the last time, but all bets are off this time around. This is all, at least from a policy and normative perspective, very unexpected, as the ACI was envisaged…

New paper on SSRN – ‘Is there a place for local content requirements in EU public procurement?’

Local content requirements (LCRs) are gaining traction within the European Union, particularly in certain Member States. In this preprint, I seek to define LCRs in the context of EU public procurement, to assess whether their use should be evaluated solely on the basis of strict economic and market criteria, and – most importantly – to…

Prijedlog izmjena Zakona o javnoj nabavi – dosta dobrog ali (neki) veliki problemi ostaju

Jučer je Ministarstvo gospodarstva (MINGO) u javno savjetovanje pustilo prijedlog novih izmjena Zakona o javnoj nabavi (ZJN), prvi od nesretnih izmjena s kraja 2022. Pohvalno je da javno savjetovanje traje 30 dana, a dostupno je ovdje. Na prvih nekoliko čitanja, ne mogu se oteti dojmu kako se moglo više. Iako se predložene izmjene čine opsežnima,…

”Public Procurement – A New Way Forward” – Conference YouTube live stream

Our “Public Procurement – A New Way Forward” Conference is less than a month away, and the interest has been overwhelming! Unfortunately, this also means that not everyone will be able to join us in person. To ensure broader access, the conference will be streamed live on YouTube – no registration required; Because it is important to…

Gostujuća predavanja i predstavljanje knjige – 10. i 12. studenog 2025.

O našoj konferenciji ‘Public Procurement – A New Way Forward’ već sve znate, i hvala vam svima na ogromnom interesu! Ali i dan prije i dan poslije konferencije imamo puno toga zanimljivog, pa se ova tri dana slobodno mogu smatrati upravnopravnim i javnonabavnim danima na Pravnom fakultetu Sveučilišta u Zagrebu! Dan prije konferencije (10. studenog);…

Open access paper – ‘Exclusion of third-country economic operators from EU public procurement and the Kolin judgment – new rules and lingering questions’

A big thank you to Thomson Reuters and Public Procurement Law Review for allowing me to publish this paper on my blog! In the paper, I mostly analyse the legal gaps left by the CJEU in its seminal Kolin judgement. The paper was submitted before the CJEU published its Qingdao judgement and before the Commission’s…