Money well spent?

PUBLIC PROCUREMENT IN THE WESTERN BALKANS

Public procurements or only imitation?

“Monitoring of the public procurements: corruption risks, identified from the civil society organizations” organized by the Macedonian Center for International Cooperation (MCMS) and the Center for Civil Communications (CCC).

Monuments’ polishing will clean up 730,000 euro for two years

The construction company "Beton" will maintain fountains and monuments in the next 24 months.

Public procurement could be next TTIP deal breaker

As EU-US negotiators prepare for a new round of transatlantic trade talks in New York next week, officials fear TTIP might run into a new brick wall: Public procurement.

Psychological tests – lucrative business for close people

The owner of the company that won the tender for psychological tests for teachers and professors is the manager of an NGO, along with a psychologist who is employed at the Ministry of Education and Science, reveals research by BIRN

 
 

EU

 

Main EU documents regulating PP

1. Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions Public procurement for a better environment {SEC(2008) 2124} {SEC(2008) 2125} {SEC(2008) 2126}

2. Communication from the Commission: Corresponding values of the thresholds of Directives 2004/17/EC, 2004/18/EC and 2009/81/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (2011/C 353/01)

3. Regulation (EC) No 2195/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 November 2002 on the Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

4. Commission staff working document: Requirements for conducting public procurement using electronic means under the new public procurement Directives 2004/18/EC and 2004/17/EC

 

EU PP documents in the area of defence and security

1. Commission Green Paper of 23 September 2004 on defence procurement [COM(2004) 608] - Not published in the Official Journal

2. Commission interpretative communication of 7 December 2006 on the application of Article 296 of the Treaty in the field of defence procurement [COM(2006) 779] - Not published in the Official Journal

 

Dematerialisation of public procurement markets

1. Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions [COM(2012) 179] - Not published in the Official Journal

2. Communication from the Commission to the Council, the European Parliament, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions - The Role of eGovernment for Europe's Future [SEC(2003) 1038]

 

Public private partnerships

1. Commission interpretative communication on the application of Community law on Public Procurement and Concessions to institutionalised PPP (IPPP) [2008/C 91/02 – Official Journal C 91 of 12.4.2008]

2. Green Paper on public-private partnerships and Community law on public contracts and concessions [COM(2004) 327 final]

3. Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions of 19 November 2009 - Mobilising private and public investment for recovery and long term structural change: developing Public Private Partnerships [COM(2009) 615] - Not published in the Official Journal

4. Commission interpretative communication on concessions under Community law [Official Journal C 121 of 29.04.2000]

 

Reforming the EU PP legislation

Information regarding new proposals amending the EU PP rules can be found at this website

https://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/publicprocurement/modernising_rules/reform_proposals_en.htm

 

Other EU PP documents

1. Commission interpretative communications on the Community law applicable to contract awards not or not fully subject to the provisions of the Public Procurement Directives (2006/C 179/02)

2. Golden rules of e-procurement EU good practice

https://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/publicprocurement/e-procurement/golden-book/catalogue_en.htm

3. Document summing up the decisions of the Court of Justice of the European Union (before European Court of Justice). Although it is from 2007, contains useful overview of the case decisions