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NIST Updated Its Cybersecurity Framework. What Does That Mean for Agencies?

FedTech Magazine

is the first major overhaul of the framework — a published set of guidelines, best practices and standards for reducing organizations’ cyber risk first introduced in 2014 — which widens its scope beyond critical infrastructure entities to all entities. The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s February release of version 2.0

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Evolution of Kosovo’s Investment Arbitration Law: Defining the Foreign Investor and the State’s Role in Arbitration

Kluwer Arbitration

04/L-220 on Foreign Investment (hereinafter, the “2014 Law on Foreign Investment”), which safeguarded foreign investors as a key element in promoting international economic cooperation and attracting foreign capital, has now been replaced by Law No. Kosovo Law No.

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On the current Portuguese transpostion of Article 72 Directive 2014/24/EU

Telles.eu

As mentioned on yesterday's blogpost, one of the doubts I had on my mind was on the legality of the transposition of Article 72 of Directive 2014/24/EU into Portugal in its current draft of Article 370 of the Public Contracts Code. Paragraph 2 of Article 370 includes the sub-conditions or requirements of Article 72(1)(b)(i) and(ii).

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European Court of Auditors publishes report on public procurement

Telles.eu

As several objectives of the 2014 reform remain unattained, we conclude that, the entry into force of the 2014 directives has had no demonstrable effect. (…) Also, as publication rates remain low, transparency, a key safeguard against the risk of fraud and corruption, is negatively affected. Its deadline was 18 April 2019.

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Ten years later, agencies still making gains on category management

Federal News Network

Source: Governmentwide Category Management Dashboard via General Services Administration Thats a far cry from where things stood in 2014, when it was more of a norm for multiple federal agencies to have similar contracts for identical purchases, sometimes from the same vendor and sometimes without realizing it.

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How South Korea enables its green transition through green public procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

Purchasing of these products has increased dramatically over the years, from less than 1% of goods purchased in 2010 to more than 16% in 2014. Since 2014, the proportion has remained stable, as the latest KIP analysis shows. Some minimum criteria for certain products could also be modified.

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Case C-598/19 Conacee – Reserved Contracts and Additional National Criteria Beyond Those Laid Down in Article 20(1) of Directive 2014/24/EU on Public Procurement 

Bestek Procurement

1] The Court of Justice of the European Union (further: CJEU) ruled in this case that Member States are able to set additional requirements under national legislation beyond those laid down in Article 20(1) Directive 2014/24/EU with respect to economic operators that may compete for reserved contracts.