PUBLIC PROCUREMENT
December 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLA PACKAGE of reforms to the European Union's (EU) public procurement legislation has been agreed by a conciliation committee linking the EU Council of Ministers and the European Parliament. A key aim has been to make the EU's often complex public procurement rules - which aim to prevent cronyism and closed markets in government spending contracts - more transparent, efficient and comprehensible. Importantly, the reforms authorise the electronic tendering of public contracts and the use of electronic signatures. They also allow public authorities ...
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