This article identifies the positive regulatory externalities that can be realised from the WTO Government Procurement Agreement (“WTO GPA”), Regional Trade Agreements (“RTAs”) and other international conventions with public procurement provisions. It submits that despite the...

This report assesses the openness of public procurement markets in key third countries of interest to the EU. It provides a comparative overview of the regulatory and market access characteristics of the US, Brazil, India, China, Japans' procurement markets, with reference to the procurement...

This report assesses the openness of public procurement markets in key third countries of interest to the EU. It provides a comparative overview of the regulatory and market access characteristics of the US, Brazil, India, China, Japans' procurement markets, with reference to the procurement...

This article is concerned with the nature and application of the most-favoured-nation (MFN) principle under the World Trade Organization's (WTO's) plurilateral Government Procurement Agreement (WTO GPA). After establishing the context of the WTO GPA, the paper first assesses how the MFN...

This paper identifies the legal and economic assessments applied to resolve WTO disputes requiring an assessment of the contribution of the measure to the objective pursued, along with identifying any reasonably available alternatives. It focuses on disputes encompassing an interpretation of...

The revised World Trade Organization (WTO) Government Procurement Agreement (GPA), which came into force on April 6, 2014, provides a limited number of WTO Members with a framework for ensuring that the tenders scheduled under the Appendix to WTO GPA are conducted in a competitive,...