Make sure that you have not missed a key development in your area of the law by reading our latest In brief review of the Practical Law Public Sector e-mail for the week ending 24 July 2012.
Replacing our recommended actions, In brief will include a one sentence summary of all of the legal developments reported in our weekly e-mail to make sure that no matter how busy our subscribers are, they can still keep in touch with all the latest developments.
Elisabetta Rotondo, Kemp Little LLP:
What do ICT standards, data protection and financial services have in common? They are examples of what arguably is becoming a trend by the EU institutions to use regulations, rather than directives, as the preferred form of harmonising legal instrument.
In this post, Elisabetta Rotondo of Kemp Little LLP looks at the reasons why regulations may be preferable for the EU institutions and also warns of the dangers that the use of a regulation poses for the approach to ICT standards that the UK has adopted. For a more detailed overview of the issues and arguments, please see Elisabetta’s in-depth article on the use of regulations. Continue reading
PLC Public Sector reports:
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A report recently published by the Centre for Economic and Business Research (CEBR), which was commissioned by Gatewit (an e-procurement provider) has highlighted reasons why the UK public procurement sector has much to do to improve its efficiency.
While, the report mainly focuses on e-procurement adoption, it also has some interesting findings for the UK public procurement market generally, particularly how its procedures compare with the rest of the EU. Continue reading
PLC Public Sector reports:
Make sure that you have not missed a key development in your area of the law by reviewing our latest list of recommended actions.
PLC Public Sector reports:
The key decision in our June 2013 case digest may have implications for contracting authorities exploring options to share services.
Please feel free to submit a comment below or contact us at: feedback@practicallaw.com 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
PLC Public Sector reports:
Make sure that you have not missed a key development in your area of the law by reviewing our latest list of recommended actions.
Adrian Magnus, Partner and Stuart Stock, Associate, Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP:
On 13 June 2013, the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ), following the request for a preliminary ruling from the Higher Regional Court in Düsseldorf, handed down its judgment in Piepenbrock Dienstleistungen GmbH & Co. v Kreis Düren (Case C-386/11). The facts of the case have once again forced the court, and as a consequence contracting authorities and lawyers, to consider the scope of the “in-house” exceptions to the public procurement rules.
PLC Public Sector reports:
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This is the second in our series of quarterly freedom of information law update blogs, which focuses 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. This post looks at freedom of information law developments from April 2013 to June 2013.
Please feel free to submit a comment below or contact us at feedback@practicallaw.com 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. Continue reading