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The basis of European procurement regulation lies in the provisions of the European Union treaties which prohibit barriers to intra-Union trade, provide the freedom to provide services and the right to establishment (three of the "Four Freedoms"), prohibit discrimination on the basis of national origin and regulate public undertakings and public monopolies. [3]
Created under the EU's 2014 Directive on Procurement [1] and implemented, for example, by Regulation 59 of the UK's Public Contracts Regulations 2015, [2] the ESPD is intended to simplify the process of qualification for tendering by permitting businesses to self-declare that they meet the necessary regulatory criteria or commercial capability ...
Coordination of procedures for the award of public works contracts, public supply contracts and public service contracts directive – 2004/18/EC 31 March 2004, replaced by Directive 2014/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 on public procurement and repealing Directive 2004/18/EC [27]
Maintenance of the system was initially voluntary on the part of EU member states, but the 2014 Directive on Public Procurement mandated maintenance and use of the system by 18 October 2018 at the latest, 30 months after the deadline for transposition of most elements of the directive. [3]
The country is committed to the implementation of the public European public procurement directives 2004/17/EC and 2004/18/EC. Actors. Policy and strategy are drawn by the Prime Minister and the Ministry of General Government Affairs.
Through Peppol, participant organisations can deliver procurement documents to each other including electronic invoices in machine readable formats, avoiding the labour of data entry. OpenPeppol , a non-profit international association registered in Belgium , is the governing body of the primary implementation and developer of specifications. [ 2 ]
The Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV) has been developed by the European Union to facilitate the processing of invitation to tender published in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) by means of a single classification system to describe the subject matter of public contracts.
EN 301 549 is the harmonized European Standard for ICT Accessibility. It is used in public procurement, as it is important that government services are easy for everyone to use. With European Accessibility Act, it is applicable to most organizations in Europe. Since it started, the rules have been updated to keep up with best practices.