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Sundstrand, Andrea; Ågren, Robert --- "The implementation of Directive 2014/24/EU in Sweden: a sanguine approach" [2018] ELECD 957; in Treumer, Steen; Comba, Mario (eds), "Modernising Public Procurement" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018) 260

Book Title: Modernising Public Procurement

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

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN: 9781788114530

Section: Chapter 12

Section Title: The implementation of Directive 2014/24/EU in Sweden: a sanguine approach

Author(s): Sundstrand, Andrea; Ågren, Robert

Number of pages: 18

Abstract/Description:

This chapter provides a critical assessment of the implementation of Directive 2014/24/EU in the UK by the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. It explores the implications of the copy-out approach followed by the UK government in order to avoid gold-plating the transposition of the 2014 EU Public Procurement Package, as well as the deficiencies that result from the perspective of constructing a developed regulatory system. The analysis concentrates on selected novelties of Directive 2014/24/EU, as well as areas where Member States were granted discretion to choose between a set of options or to find their own mechanisms to achieve certain aims specified at EU level. The chapter concludes that the transposition in the UK was a missed opportunity to develop a full regulatory architecture for the control of public expenditure by means of procurement.