Telles.eu

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The European Court of Auditors published yesterday its report on EU public procurement between 2011 and 2021 , looking into the competition for public contracts covered by EU rules. The problem is how to go forward from here but the time to start thinking is now. Its deadline was 18 April 2019.

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Telles.eu

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The Portuguese government is planning to introduce mandatory green public procurement criteria in the near future. This means the public sector in Portugal will have less than 3 months to adapt to a fairly significant change in the way it carries out public procurement.

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Telles.eu

APRIL 18, 2023

Albert has already done a deep dive into the Commission's recent Communication on the Public Procurement Data Space , so for those of you that are yet to get acquainted with the Communication his blogpost is probably the best starting point. We need a new round of Directives - or if I had my way - a Public Procurement Regulation.

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How to Crack a Nut

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

This Op-Ed is based on the assumption that public procurement law is not and cannot be insulated from these changes – veritable seismic shifts – and from recent policy and normative actions taken by EU institutions. The Council also called ‘for resuming discussions on the EU’s international procurement instrument’ (see here ).

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Public Procurement Intl

OCTOBER 21, 2024

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. Both the European Union ( Directive 2014/24/EU , Art.

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How to Crack a Nut

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The Slovak Government argued that the agreements were null and void because, combined and from the outset, the grant agreement and AFSA would have had the unavoidable effect of getting the stadium built and transferred to the State, and thus covered up the illegal direct award of a public works contract to NFŠ.

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Telles.eu

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

I think it is appropriate to look into his legacy of 8 years as PM in the field of public procurement. The transposition of the 2014 Directives His first government transposed the 2014 Directives fashionably late in August 2017. But fashionably late it was nonetheless.

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