Public procurement and the EU competition Rules / Albert Sánchez Graells.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sánchez Graells, Albert, author.

Series:

Hart studies in competition law.

Hart Studies in Competition Law

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Competition, Unfair--European Union countries.

Government purchasing--Law and legislation--European Union countries.

Government purchasing--European Union countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (626 p.)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Hart Publishing, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Public procurement and competition law are both important fields of EU law and policy, intimately intertwined in the creation of the internal market. Hitherto their close connection has been noted, but not closely examined. This work is the most comprehensive attempt to date to explain the many ways in which these fields, often considered independent of one another, interact and overlap in the creation of the internal market. This process of convergence between competition and public procurement law is particularly apparent in the 2014 Directives on public procurement, which consolidate the principle of competition in terms very close to those advanced by the author in the first edition. This second edition builds upon this approach and continues to ask how competition law principles inform and condition public procurement rules, and whether the latter (in their revised form) are adequate to ensure that competition is not distorted. The second edition also deepens the analysis of the market behaviour of the public buyer from a competition perspective. Proceeding through a careful assessment of the general rules of competition and public procurement, the book constantly tests the efficacy of these rules against a standard of the proper functioning of undistorted competition in the market for public procurement. It also traces the increasing relevance of competition considerations in the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union and sets out criteria and recommendations to continue influencing the development of EU Economic Law."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. Foundations and principles : the economic and legal basics of public procurement and competition law

3. General part : the building blocks of a framework for the competition analysis of public procurement

4. Analysis of competition distortions caused by public procurement.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781474203418

1474203418

OCLC:

910553637