In this contribution, I reflect on the role of competition in public procurement regulation and, more specifically, on … whether competition should be treated as a regulatory goal, as a general principle of public procurement law, as a specific … issue, which remains at the core of my research efforts. This contribution shows that the role of competition keeps cropping …

Competition is usually re ... …

leniency applications received by European competition authorities in the period 2015 – 2020, the German Monopolies Commission … (Monopolkommission) proposed in 2022 to amend the Competition Damages Directive 2014/104/EU so as to immunize companies that have … received immunity under the competition authorities’ leniency programmes from follow-on actions for damages. This paper …

This paper takes the dearth of quality procurement data as an empirical point of departure to assess emerging … regulatory trends in data-driven and digital public procurement governance and, in particular, the European Commission's ambition … for the single digital procurement market. It resorts to two well-known elephant tales to send a message of caution. It …

This chapter assesses the use of public procurement to enforce labour standards from a competition and State aid …) economic protectionism that they create. The chapter then assesses these issues from the perspective the EU public procurement …, competition and State aid rules. It concludes that, given the current ineffectiveness of the checks and balances theoretically …

describing the regulatory regime for procurement and the competition policy issues which have arisen. The document also includes … a background paper prepared by the OECD secretariat discussing why competition issues arise in procurement, raising the …This document (of 147 pages) contains the proceedings of a one-day roundtable on competition issues relating to …

This paper deals with access to the file in competition proceedings conducted by the European Commission for the …

procurement in Directive 2014/24. The paper explores the justifications advanced for the aggregation of purchasing and the … overview of the new rules for the aggregation of public procurement in Directive 2014/24, and emphasised how the Directive is … that strict competition law enforcement will be necessary to avoid undesired consequences. Some suggestions for further …

This paper indentifies the two-dimensional relationship that procurement and competition keep. From a ‘market … themselves be sources of distortions and restrictions of competition. Therefore, procurement reform needs to be clearly stirred … proposed reforms in the current revision of the EU public procurement Directives from the competition perspective: the rules on …

This paper focuses on institutional design aspects of the enforcement of competition law and other procompetitive …; motivation of staff; treatment of conflicting regulatory objectives; and legitimising elements in competition procedures …