"Foreword" [2018] ELECD 945; in Treumer, Steen; Comba, Mario (eds), "Modernising Public Procurement" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018) viii

Book Title: Modernising Public Procurement

Editor(s): Treumer, Steen; Comba, Mario

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN: 9781788114530

Section Title: Foreword

Number of pages: 3

Extract:

Foreword We are proud to present the latest book based on the work of the European Procurement Law Group. As was amply illustrated in a previous book from the same group, Modernising Public Procurement: The New Directive (DJØF Publishing, 2014), public procurement reform was not limited to cosmetic changes. It involved substantial changes in many areas of the law. The deadline for the implementation of the 2014 Public Procurement and Concession Directives expired in April 2016. Due to the complexity of the task and, at times, to specific internal circumstances, many Member States were late in implementing the reform package. Some of them only adopted national legislation in late 2017, while a number of the first movers had to amend mistakes due to hasty work. This new volume analyses the implementation of Directive 2014/24/EU in 12 Member States, both large and comparatively small, in all parts of the EU, and belonging to both the civil and the common law traditions. The Directive is a huge piece of legislation spanning hundreds of pages in the Official Journal of the European Union, and the implementing legislative texts are correspondingly thick. Choices had to be made to avoid national reports being too shallow. The reports focus first of all on general issues concerning implementation, giving indications as to the different approaches followed in the jurisdictions covered, including with regard to gold-plating, and looking into how the Member States have taken advantage ­ or not ­ of the margins of discretion left ...