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Fair-trade coffee and tea under the procurement directive

European Law: Public Procurement

Can public authorities procure fair trade products, or are they debarred from specifically referring to the fair trade qualities of those products under the public procurement directive (directive 2004/18/EC)? This is one of the issues underlying the judgment of the Court in Case C-368/10 Commission v. Netherlands.

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The 3 revolutions of public procurement in Africa

Open Contracting Partnership

Early reformers in this first revolution were Ethiopia (2005), Ghana (2005), Kenya (2007), Tanzania (2004), Uganda (2003), and Zambia (2006). In addition, price overruns continued to plague procurement outcomes, as well as poor contract execution, manifested through poor quality works and delays.

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How Confidential Is Arbitration In English Law?

Kluwer Arbitration

Petronz did not pay the purchase price and Mr Ganz referred the dispute to arbitration. Background The dispute arose from a share purchase agreement pursuant to which Mr Ganz and Mr Goren allegedly agreed to sell their shares in a company to Petronz (“the SPA”). The SPA provided for disputes to be resolved by arbitration under the LCIA rules.

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Government Contracts Issues for a Recession

Procurement Notes

Particularly, the Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index (“PCE”) core inflation rate for January 2024 was 2.8%. [30] 33] Importantly, since the inflation high water marks of 2022, mostly what has occurred is disinflation (decrease of the inflation rate), not actual deflation (price decreases). down from 5.5%

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Past the Tipping Point? The Diminishing Value of Investment Treaties and Arbitration in the Green Transition Era

Kluwer Arbitration

In doing so, many have cited language originating in the 2004 Occidental v. For example, many tribunals have read the common treaty promise of Fair and Equitable Treatment (“FET”) to guarantee the same level of protection as a contractual stabilization clause. That statement may have flown in the past—but for how much longer?

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An In-Depth Examination of Inflation Relief for a Government Contractor

Procurement Notes

Department of Labor (“DoL”), Bureau of Labor Statistics (“BLS”), September 13 Consumer Price Index (“CPI”) Summary states that “[o]ver the last 12 months, the all items index increased 8.3 1] Similarly, the BLS September 14 Producer Price Index (“PPI”) Summary states that “[o]n an unadjusted basis, the index for final demand moved up 8.7

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Remedies When The Government Ceases Paying a Contractor, Grantee, or Cooperatee

Procurement Notes

The Government cannot TFC a contract in bad faith, or as an abuse of discretionsuch as to get a better price, or where the Government formed the contract with no real intention of seeing it through. [59] 2004) (The fact that this contract covers government financial grants does not warrant a different standard. 2d 151, 164 (D.