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Open Olympics 2026: progress and challenges

Open Contracting Partnership

Alarmingly, 60% of projects bypassed initial environmental impact assessments, as it was deemed unnecessary or not required under current regulations. Nine implementing bodies are involved, with Simico S.p.A. overseeing nearly 60% of the projects and managing 74.5% of allocated funds.

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How Lithuania fast-tracked green procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

Kęstutis Kazulis, Principal Advisor for Sustainable Procurement, LPPO Monitoring green impact Lithuania is now planning the next big step in monitoring GPP – measuring the impact of GPP. In a few pre-tender market consultations, we came out with demanding GPP criteria. We tried to meet markets where they were.

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Procuring AI without understanding it. Way to go?

How to Crack a Nut

New legislation is required to impose specific minimum requirements of eg data governance and algorithmic impact assessment and related transparency across the public sector, to address the issue of lack of standards and metrics but without reliance on their development by and within the AI industry.

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Pre-Ιnvestment Expenditures, Defining an Investment, and a Problem of Translations: Patel Engineering v the Republic of Mozambique

Kluwer Arbitration

Investors frequently make expenditures in the preparatory phase of an investment, such as environmental impact assessments , scientific surveys, or financial advice. The government opened a public tender process. When are these expenditures considered an investment? CFM was not able to contribute the 20% needed for the project.