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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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United Nations – Global Challenges & Next Steps in Procurement Law

Public Procurement Intl

Thursday, February 9, 2023 – 11 am-noon ET GW Law School – 2000 H Street NW, WashINGTON – Room: Stuart HALL 101 (Also can be accessed at 2013 G Street) Discovering the United Nations system. From addressing global challenges to next steps in procurement reform.

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The power of procurement data: How one villager unveiled a corruption scandal

Open Contracting Partnership

ACT and HAND have been strengthening Thailand’s anti-corruption network not just with large public organizations but also with local civil society groups. A publicly available tool, ACT Ai aggregates data on over 31 million public procurement projects, linking them with company registration data to detect potential fraud and corruption.

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

Kluwer Arbitration

On the other hand, the Conseil d’Etat considered that administrative courts would be competent to hear an application for exequatur of a foreign award ( CE, 19 April 2013, No. Most of the exceptions to the prohibition for public entities to have recourse to arbitration are listed in Article L. 12/11596 ). 2111-14 and L.

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Are there any gains to be had from the proposed new provider selection model for NHS commissioning?

University of Bristol

One of the relatively recent developments in the post-Brexit review of UK public procurement law is the February 2021 proposal for the replacement of the current rules on the commissioning of healthcare services for the purposes of the English NHS (for background, you can watch here ), with a new provider selection regime (‘the proposal’).

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A missed opportunity to provide meaningful clarification on state aid analysis of procurement compliance and some problematic ‘obiter dicta’ (C-28/23)

How to Crack a Nut

In 2013 the Slovak Government granted State aid to NFŠ to support the construction of the national football stadium in Bratislava. One preliminary issue worth highlighting is that the timeline of the case created the issue whether the 2004 or the 2014 procurement Directive applied.