Public Procurement in the EU: A Practitioner's Guide

This is a detailed and practical guide to the January 2006 EC Procurement Directives in the public and utilities sectors, which set out the minimum standards to be provided by the EU member states in guaranteeing a level playing field for regulating public procurement. It clearly explains the legal provisions that must be complied with in order to compete successfully for public contracts throughout the European Community, including those involving the Community institutions themselves.

Peter Trepte is a barrister, working from London. He specializes in public procurement law and competition law. In the case of regulated procurement, he advises and represents public and private sector clients on the impact of national and EC procurement rules as well as on the application of the WTO Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA) and the effect on the procurement rules of the EC's preferential trade arrangements. He was a dispute panel member in the only procurement case to reach the panel stage under the WTO's 1994 GPA. He has advised a number of developing countries worldwide on procurement policy and has drafted appropriate procurement rules. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a mediator. He is also a member of DFID's panel of Procurement Fiduciary Risk, Anti-corruption and Capacity Building Specialists