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How South Korea enables its green transition through green public procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

South Korea has been a pioneer of green public procurement (GPP) since 2005 , when the Environment Ministry enacted legislation mandating government agencies to buy “green products” whenever possible. These categories were established in a consultation process with relevant stakeholders and revised seven times.

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Updating the UNCITRAL Model Procurement Law for “Green Procurement”

Public Procurement Intl

As these common “green procurement” strategies are adopted by governments around the world, the UN Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) model law on public procurement , last revised in 2011, could be updated to facilitate implementation. Contractor ¶ 60 (Thomson Reuters, 2024).

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Risk of anti-competitive collusion after excessive level of transparency in public procurement debriefing?

European Law: Public Procurement

In its Judgment of 4 October 2012 in case C‑629/11 P Evropaïki Dynamiki v Commission (ESP-ISEP) , the Court of Justice has issued another interesting decision on what should be considered sufficient debriefing of disappointed bidders in public procurement procedures. 1) (‘the Financial Regulation’).

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Chile’s procurement monitoring system now open to the public

Open Contracting Partnership

Chile’s public procurement agency, ChileCompra, created its “ Public Contracting Observatory ” service in 2012 to detect, prevent, and fix irregularities in government contracting procedures. It’s not an easy task,” says Moreno.

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The Procurement Act 2023’s Kaleidoscopic View of the Public Interest

University of Bristol

The paper will be published in Legal Studies in due course.(*) Public procurement is concerned with the award of contracts for the supply, for pecuniary interest, of goods, services or works to the public sector. 12 goals of value for money and public benefit and s.13

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Duty to give reasons under EU procurement law and EU trademark law: is there a contradiction?

European Law: Public Procurement

Even if they may seem two – rather disconnected – areas of legal practice, reading cases on EU public procurement and on EU trademark law sometimes offers interesting insights into broader issues of EU economic law or, more generally, EU law. And this generates some troubling incentives and risks, as discussed here.

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For Galakis the Bell Tolls: Is the SMAC v Ryanair Decision the End of Arbitration for Public Entities in France?

Kluwer Arbitration

On 22 May 2012, the President of the Paris Tribunal de Grande Instance granted the exequatur. Most of the exceptions to the prohibition for public entities to have recourse to arbitration are listed in Article L. 12/11596 ). 1900269 ) and by the Administrative Court of Appeal of Bordeaux ( CAA Bordeaux, 30 March 2022, No.