FRANCE PUBLIC PROCUREMENT
October 1st, 2002
BY KEITH NUTHALLFRANCE is being threatened with legal action at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) by the European Commission, which claims that Paris is breaking European Union (EU) public procurement rules governing the buying of goods and services by utilities.These directives on public service contracts and on contracts in the water, energy, transport and telecommunications sectors, (92/50/EEC and 93/38/EEC), are under review, but the Commission wants France to comply with them nonetheless.They state that some contracts regarding the "issue, sale, purchase ...
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