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This book provides invaluable insights to one of the most difficult areas of European integration. Public procurement represents an instrument of policy choice for governments and its regulation interacts with a variety of policies, including the promotion of competition, employment, social policy, and environmental protection. The author vividly elaborates on the in-built flexibility of the newly enacted rules and provides a codified analysis of their interpretation by the EU judiciary. Finally, considerable debate is dedicated to future dimensions of public procurement regulation in the form of public private partnerships and concessions.
List of contents
Cases before the European Court of Justice Foreword Introduction European Integration and Public Procurement Public Procurement Regulation Lessons from Jurisprudence Public Procurement as Economic and Policy Exercise A Critical Assessment of Public Procurement The New Public Procurement Regime Public Private Partnerships The Procurement of Services of General Interest Conclusions Index
About the author
CHRISTOPHER BOVIS is Professor of Law at the Lancashire Law School and Jean Monnet Chair in European and Business Law. He is Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies at the University of London. He has been Visiting Professor of Trade and Commerce at the Queens University of Belfast and Visiting Professor of European Law at the University of Lisbon, Portugal. He was Deputy Director of the Institute of European Public Law at the University of Hull from 1994 to 1998.
Summary
This book provides invaluable insights to one of the most difficult areas of European integration. Public procurement represents an instrument of policy choice for governments and its regulation interacts with a variety of policies, including the promotion of competition, employment, social policy, and environmental protection. The author vividly elaborates on the in-built flexibility of the newly enacted rules and provides a codified analysis of their interpretation by the EU judiciary. Finally, considerable debate is dedicated to future dimensions of public procurement regulation in the form of public private partnerships and concessions.
