The precept of competitors is lifeless. Lengthy stay the precept of competitors (Free webinar) — Learn how to Crack a Nut – Go Well being Professional

Free webinar: 22 March 2024 *revised time* 1pm UK / 2pm CET / 3pm EET. Registration right here.

The position of competitors in public procurement regulation continues to be debated. Whereas it’s usually accepted that the right functioning of procurement markets requires some degree of competitors – and the European Court docket of Auditors has just lately identified that present ranges of competitors for public contracts within the EU usually are not passable – the ‘authorized rating’ and normative weight of competitors considerations are a lot much less settled.

This has been evidenced in a latest wave of educational dialogue on whether or not there’s a basic precept of competitors in any respect in Directive 2014/24/EU, what’s its normative standing and the way it ranks vis-à-vis sustainability and environmental issues, and what are its sensible implications for the interpretation and utility of EU public procurement legislation.

Bringing collectively voices representing a variety of views, this webinar will discover these points and supply an area for reflective dialogue on competitors and public procurement. The webinar will not settle the talk, however hopefully it should enable us to take inventory and description ideas for the subsequent wave of dialogue. It is going to additionally present a possibility for an interactive Q&A.

Audio system:

• Prof Roberto Caranta, Full Professor of Administrative Regulation, College of Turin.

• Mr Trygve Harlem Losnedahl, PhD researcher, College of Oslo.

• Dr Dagne Sabockis, Senior Affiliate, Vinge legislation agency; Stockholm Faculty of Economics.

• Prof Albert Sanchez-Graells, Professor of Financial Regulation, College of Bristol.

Pre- or post-reading:

• Claire Methven O’Brien and Roberto Caranta, ‘Due Diligence in EU Establishments’ Personal-Account Procurement: Guidelines and Practices’ (2024) European Parliament CONT Committee Research PE 738.335, Annex II.

• Trygve Harlem Losnedahl, ‘The Basic Precept of Competitors is Useless’ (2023) 2 PPLR 85-98 (£/€).

• Trygve Harlem Losnedahl, ‘Ends and Means within the Regulation of Public Procurement — a authorized historic evaluation’, English translation of the unique article written in Norwegian in Tidsskrift for Rettsvitenskap, vol. 136, 4/2023, 359–442.

• Dagne Sabockis, ‘The Precept of Competitors within the Context of Inexperienced Public Procurement – the Case of Inexperienced Award Standards’ (2023) 18(4) EPPPL 237-243 (£/€).

• Albert Sanchez-Graells, ‘Competitors and procurement regulation’ in Carina Risvig Hamer et al (eds), Into the Northern Mild – In reminiscence of Steen Treumer (Ex Tuto, 2022) 65-81. Pre-print out there via SSRN: https://ssrn.com/summary=4012022.