PPP PUBLIC PROCUREMENT
May 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Commission wants comments on how far public-private partnerships (PPP) should be bound by European Union (EU) public procurement rules on open tendering. Brussels is concerned that the wide variety of PPPs, (contractual, cooperative, institutionalised, etc), is leading EU member countries to create divergent rules on how these partnerships buy goods and services. "There is no specific system under EU law for PPPs and EU rules on awarding public contracts are applied to PPPs with differing degrees of intensity," noted a Commission ...
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