Cerqueira Gomes, Pedro --- "A lost proposal in the 2014 Public Procurement Package: is there any life for the proposed public procurement oversight bodies?" [2016] ELECD 1394; in Ølykke, S. Grith; Sanchez-Graells, Albert (eds), "Reformation or Deformation of the EU Public Procurement Rules" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2016) 170

Book Title: Reformation or Deformation of the EU Public Procurement Rules

Editor(s): Ølykke, S. Grith; Sanchez-Graells, Albert

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781785361807

Section: Chapter 7

Section Title: A lost proposal in the 2014 Public Procurement Package: is there any life for the proposed public procurement oversight bodies?

Author(s): Cerqueira Gomes, Pedro

Number of pages: 21

Abstract/Description:

The mandatory requirement for a decentralized system of single oversight public bodies entrusted with the monitoring of public procurement included in the 2011 Proposal was quickly abandoned during the legislative negotiations between the Parliament and the Council. Therefore, the 2014 Directive only imposes a general duty of monitoring the application of the EU public procurement rules that can be entrusted to any entity or national structure. The main reasons given by the Parliament and the Council for this amendment were that the demand for a unique specialized supervisory body at a decentralized level contravened the principle of subsidiarity and the Member States’ procedural and institutional autonomy, and constituted an excessive administrative burden. This chapter explores whether, despite this change, the CJEU is capable of forcing Member States to adopt these structures, mainly to give effectiveness to the EU remedy of ineffectiveness based on illegal direct awards without prior mandatory publication of contract notices in the Official Journal of the EU.