Open AccessThe transposition of the 2014 EU Directives on public procurement by Portugal: woes and expectations
Author(s) -
L. Valadares Tavares
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
european journal of public procurement markets
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2184-3813
DOI - 10.54611/kmgs3421
Subject(s) - procurement , parliament , business , european commission , european union , public administration , sustainability , commission , member state , cohesion (chemistry) , directive , public relations , industrial organization , economic policy , member states , political science , finance , marketing , law , politics , programming language , ecology , chemistry , organic chemistry , biology , computer science
The new EU Directives on Public Procurement are oriented to promote the application of the concept of strategic public procurement which has been subject to several communications and discussions promoted by the European Commission and European Parliament. This new approach to Public Procurement has deep implications in the legal framework adopted by each Member State as well as in the public administration culture and organization in order that the new objectives of promoting the qualification of markets, the increase of innovation, the respect by social cohesion and environmental sustainability and a better access to public markets by SME’s will be achieved aligned with the UE 2020 Agenda. In this paper, the process and the results of the transposition of this Directives by Portugal are studied not just in terms of the respect for the Directives rules but also considering its likely positive and negative impacts on Portuguese public markets which are also synthetically described herein.