Conferences are great, but papers are better! I’m very happy and proud to post about this – the first public procurement law special issue (in English!) of one of the best (I’d say – the best, but then you’d say I’m biased) law journals in South-Eastern Europe! The papers you can read here were written…
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
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…
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: Continue improving efficiency and case management in commercial and civil cases, as backlogs have decreased but proceeding length remains concerning. Strengthen investigations and…
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…
The Public Procurement Directives are in the midst of revision and we expect the Commission to publish a draft Regulation in early September. Since everyone likes to be told what to do (especially by an academic), I decided to write a paper on what should the Commission do with the participation of third-country economic operators…
This will be the shortest post I ever wrote: the book is out – go buy it! Here it the link, the first chapter is open access!
