REUTERS | Ina Fassbender
31/12/2014

Freedom of information law quarterly digest (October – December 2014)

Our quarterly freedom of information law update blogs focus on the latest developments in freedom of information law under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (SI 2004/3391) (EIR). The blog will enable readers advising on freedom of information law to catch up on the most important cases, issues or developments on the topic. This post looks at freedom of information law developments from October to December 2014.

Please feel free to submit a comment below or send us an Ask query if you have any views on the cases, issues or developments that are covered, or if you think we have missed something that should be brought to the attention of freedom of information practitioners.

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REUTERS | Andrew Winning
19/12/2014

Sex education: schools’ hotline FAQs

Practical Law Public Sector addresses the questions that schools may ask local authorities regarding day-to-day school management and sets out the legal issues to consider when responding:

This FAQ examines the issues arising when parents object to their children attending sex education classes on religious grounds. For details of all our school hotline queries, please see Practice note, Schools hotline FAQs.

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REUTERS | Eric Thayer
17/12/2014

Public procurement case digest (November 2014)

November’s case digest includes a number of rejected appeals against European procurement decisions by the General Court, and an ECJ ruling regarding the exclusion of an economic operator from a procurement procedure due to inaccurate documentation.

Please feel free to submit a comment below or send us an Ask query if you have any views on the cases covered or think that we have missed a case that should be brought to the attention of public procurement practitioners. Continue reading →

REUTERS | John Kolesidis
10/12/2014

Competitive negotiation under the new draft regulations – a final nail in the coffin?

  • by John Bennett
  • Co-author of the looseleaf encyclopedia, EU Public Procurement Law and Practice

Enthusiasm for the use of the competitive version of the negotiated procedure (“competitive negotiated”) has varied over time. For those with long memories, it was used extensively until the 2004 directive (Directive 2004/18/EC) restricted its use and introduced the new “competitive dialogue” procedure. It then largely fell out of favour as the UK government and the EU Commission encouraged competitive dialogue

In this post, John Bennett, co-author of the loose-leaf encyclopedia: “EU Public Procurement: Law and Practice”, considers the competitive negotiated procedure in the new procurement directive and the draft Public Contracts Regulations 2015.

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