Public procurement and competition law are both important fields of EU law and policy, intimately intertwined in the creation of the internal market. This book comprehensively explains the many ways in which these fields, often considered independent of one another, interact and overlap in the creation of the internal market. This process of convergence between competition and public procurement law is particularly apparent in the 2013 Directives on public procurement, which consolidate the principle of competition in terms very close to those advanced by the author in the first edition. This...

Smart procurement aims to leverage public buying power in pursuit of social, environmental and innovation goals. Socially-oriented smart procurement has been a controversial issue under EU law. The extent to which the Court of Justice (ECJ) has supported or rather constrained its development has been intensely debated by academics and practitioners alike. After a slow development of a seemingly permissive approach, the ECJ case law reached an apparent turning point a decade ago in the often criticised judgments in Rueffert and Laval, which left a number of open questions. The recent...