Smart Public Procurement and Labour Standards
Smart Public Procurement and Labour Standards. Pushing the Discussion after RegioPost (Bloomsbury, 2018). Edited by Albert Sánchez Graells, with contributions by Piotr Bogdanowicz and Roberto Caranta Smart procurement aims to leverage public buying power in pursuit of social, environmental and innovation goals. Socially-orientated smart procurement has been a controversial issue under EU law. The extent to which the Court of Justice (ECJ) has supported or rather constrained its development has been intensely debated by academics and practitioners alike. After the slow development of a seemingly permissive approach, the ECJ case law reached an apparent turning point a decade ago in the often criticised judgments in Rüffert and Laval, which left a number of open questions.…
Smart Public Procurement and Labour Standards – new book out (with 20% discount here)
A new book will be published in March 2018, edited by EPLG member Albert Sanchez Graells: Smart Public Procurement and Labour Standards. Pushing the Discussion After Regiopost (Bloomsbury 2018). The book also contains contributions by other EPLG Members Piotr Bogdanowicz and Roberto Caranta. The book can be pre-ordered at www.hartpub.co.uk. Just use the use the discount code CV7 at the checkout for a 20% discount. Here is a flyer, available for circulation. And here is the abstract: Smart procurement aims to leverage public buying power in pursuit of social, environmental and innovation goals. Socially-orientated smart procurement has been a controversial issue under EU law. The extent to which the Court of Justice (ECJ) has supported…
EPLG Members will speak at ICPS Procurement Week in London 🗓
EPLG Members Roberto Caranta, Dacian C. Dragos, Alberto Sanchez-Graells and Pedro Telles will speak at the Procurement Week 2017 organised by the Institute for Competition and Procurement Studies in London, @ The Cristal, 21st – 23rd March 2017.
Reformation or Deformation of the EU Public Procurement Rules
Using an innovative ‘law and political science’ methodology, this timely book carries out a critical assessment of the reform of the EU public procurement rules. It provides a rich account of the policy directions and the spaces for national regulatory decisions in the transposition of the 2014 Public Procurement Package, as well as areas of uncertainty and indications on how to interpret the rules in order to make them operational in practice. Edited by Grith Skovgaard Ølykke, Albert Sanchez-Graells http://www.e-elgar.com/shop/reformation-or-deformation-of-the-eu-public-procurement-rules
Research Handbook on EU Public Procurement Law
Research Handbooks in European Law series Edited by Christopher Bovis, University of Hull, UK Public procurement law is a necessary component of the single market because it attempts to regulate the public markets of Member States and represents a key priority for the European Union. This Research Handbook makes a major contribution to the understanding of the current EU public procurement regime, its interface with the law of the internal market and the pivotal role that this will play in the delivery of the European 2020 Growth Strategy. With contribution by: R. Caranta, D.C. Dragos, A. Sanchez Graells, M. Trybus http://www.e-elgar.com/shop/research-handbook-on-eu-public-procurement-law
