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EC, EU Council, EP agree on new public procurement rules

Nikola Kiš by Nikola Kiš
15 March 2022
in EU Institutions
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Belgium, (Brussels Morning Newspaper) The European Commission, the EU Council and the EU Parliament agreed on new public procurement rules on Monday.

The EC stressed that the move should “give the EU greater leverage to get access to public procurement markets outside the EU, boosting opportunities for EU companies.”

The EU’s public procurement market is one of the most open in the world, the EC declared, noting that some of the bloc’s trading partners employ “restrictive practices in their markets that discriminate against EU businesses.”

The move “will help address this problem by empowering the EU to initiate investigations in cases of alleged restrictions for EU companies in third country procurement markets, engage in consultations with the country concerned on the opening of its procurement market and, in the end, restrict access to the EU procurement market for foreign companies if they come from a country which continues to apply restrictions to EU companies”, the Commission pointed out.

European Commissioner for Trade, Valdis Dombrovskis, stressed the importance of having a level playing field and said that the EC prefers to resolve any issues through dialogue. “But in the final instance, this new instrument will give us extra leverage to remove these barriers and promote fair competition for the benefit of all,” he said. 

The EC pointed out that the new rules would grant it the authority to discriminate against bidders from countries that apply restrictions to EU-based companies. Bids from such countries would “be considered to offer a higher price than the actual price put forward”, it said, but only as a “measure of last resort.”

The Commission would first launch an investigation into alleged restrictions and then invite the country in question for consultations before applying the measure. All third countries would need to do is “stop their restrictive practices” if they wish to avoid the application of such measures, the EC said.

Public procurement, according to the Commission, accounts for 10-to-20% of a country’s GDP on average, representing business opportunities worth more than 8 trillion euro worldwide.

The EU Council and EP are to formally adopt the new rules in their coming sessions.

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