Free webinar: 22 March 2024 *revised time* 1pm UK / 2pm CET / 3pm EET. Registration right here.
The function of competitors in public procurement regulation continues to be debated. Whereas it’s typically accepted that the correct functioning of procurement markets requires some stage of competitors – and the European Court docket of Auditors has lately identified that present ranges of competitors for public contracts within the EU aren’t passable – the ‘authorized rating’ and normative weight of competitors considerations are a lot much less settled.
This has been evidenced in a current wave of educational dialogue on whether or not there’s a basic precept of competitors in any respect in Directive 2014/24/EU, what’s its normative standing and the way it ranks vis-à-vis sustainability and environmental concerns, and what are its sensible implications for the interpretation and utility of EU public procurement regulation.
Bringing collectively voices representing a variety of views, this webinar will discover these points and supply an area for reflective dialogue on competitors and public procurement. The webinar will not settle the talk, however hopefully it’s going to permit us to take inventory and description ideas for the following wave of debate. It should additionally present a chance for an interactive Q&A.
Audio system:
Prof Roberto Caranta, Full Professor of Administrative Regulation, College of Turin.
Mr Trygve Harlem Losnedahl, PhD researcher, College of Oslo.
Dr Dagne Sabockis, Senior Affiliate, Vinge regulation agency; Stockholm College of Economics.
Prof Albert Sanchez-Graells, Professor of Financial Regulation, College of Bristol.
Pre- or post-reading:
Claire Methven O’Brien and Roberto Caranta, ‘Due Diligence in EU Establishments’ Personal-Account Procurement: Guidelines and Practices’ (2024) European Parliament CONT Committee Research PE 738.335, Annex II.
Trygve Harlem Losnedahl, ‘The Normal Precept of Competitors is Lifeless’ (2023) 2 PPLR 85-98 (£/€).
Trygve Harlem Losnedahl, ‘Ends and Means within the Regulation of Public Procurement — a authorized historic evaluation’, English translation of the unique article written in Norwegian in Tidsskrift for Rettsvitenskap, vol. 136, 4/2023, 359–442.
Dagne Sabockis, ‘The Precept of Competitors within the Context of Inexperienced Public Procurement – the Case of Inexperienced Award Standards’ (2023) 18(4) EPPPL 237-243 (£/€).
Albert Sanchez-Graells, ‘Competitors and procurement regulation’ in Carina Risvig Hamer et al (eds), Into the Northern Mild – In reminiscence of Steen Treumer (Ex Tuto, 2022) 65-81. Pre-print obtainable via SSRN: https://ssrn.com/summary=4012022.
