No simplification in sight for EU public procurement! I’m having a hard time keeping up with the new terminology, a lot of it sounds similar – but it does not have the same meaning. Some good examples are similar terms across the Industrial Accelerator Act (IAA) and Public Procurement Act (PPA) proposals: ‘Made in EU’…
Read more Some thoughts on the German ‘Made with EU’ IAA non-paper
(See Pedro’s thoughts here) In the last week’s commentary on Article 70, I mentioned the inherent complexity in determining what will be covered economic operators, goods, services and works from one public procurement procedure to the next. A ‘covered’ economic operator in one procedure may not be ‘covered’ in another conducted by the same contracting…
Read more Public Procurement Act Proposal Commentary – Article 71
We’re back! The second edition of the ‘Public Procurement – A New Way Forward’ conference – organised by the University of Zagreb Faculty of Law and the Croatian State Commission for Supervision of Public Procurement Procedures will be held on 12 November! Last year we talked about what the new public procurement rules should look…
(See Pedro’s thoughts on Article 70 here) Public procurement procedures conducted in a Member State may see three kinds of economic operators: those from Member States (including the Member State where the procurement is conducted), those from countries with plurilateral or bilateral trade agreements in place with the EU that contain procurement provisions/chapters, and those from…
Read more Public Procurement Act Proposal Commentary – Article 70
This is exciting! Pedro and I are very happy to share with you that we will be writing a commentary of the Public Procurement Act proposal! We talk an unhealthy amount every day – so we might as well do something constructive! You can read Pedro’s initial thoughts here. How will this work, you asked?…
Read more Public Procurement Act Proposal Commentary – Introduction
Yesterday I posted an SSRN preprint of my forthcoming chapter in the book A Research Agenda for Public Procurement Law, Policy and Regulation (Edward Elgar Publishing) edited by Geo Quinot. A major focus of that chapter is appeal fees, and their (in my opinion) detrimental effect on the accessibility of public procurement remedies and consequently…
Read more The Cost of Whining: Public Procurement Appeal Fees Across the EU
Geo Quinot was kind enough to invite me to contribute a chapter to his upcoming edited book ‘A Research Agenda for Public Procurement Law, Policy and Regulation’ (Edward Elgar Publishing). The aim of the book is to identify important new research directions in public procurement, and I’m happy I got to write the remedies and dispute…
The European Commission published its 2026 Rule of Law Report last week, accompanied by individual Country Reports. This post will focus on the Country Report for Croatia. The recommendations are as follows: Reading the recommendations, you would be forgiven thinking that everything is fine and well in public procurement. No recommendations, which can be…
Read more 2026 Croatia Rule of Law Report from a Procurement Lens: Nothing to See Here, Move Along
It’s been an exciting summer for public procurement scholars and practitioners alike so far, and the excitement will culminate in early September! The date of (official) publication of the draft Public Procurement Regulation has shifted a couple times, but this hasn’t stopped the leak of an early version of that draft – driving early commentary…
Read more Wishlist Item 1 – A Local Content Recital in the New Public Procurement Regulation
The cat is out of the bag – it’s going to be a Regulation! Although I can’t claim thinking and writing about the benefits of a regulation over a directive as long as my friend Pedro (read his post on the matter here, but also this one here), I’ll try and make a sinilar…
