PUBLIC PROCUREMENT IN EUROPEAN CONTEXT Section 1

PUBLIC CONTRACTS AND PPP
Course requirements
Titleholder: Dacian Cosmin Dragos, PhD, Professor
Web page: www.apubb.ro /staff /Dacian Cosmin Dragos
E-mail: [email protected]
Themes:
Theme 1 - PUBLIC PROCUREMENT IN EUROPEAN CONTEXT
Section 1 – PUBLIC PROCUREMENT CONTRACTS IN ROMANIAN LAW
1. A brief theory of administrative contracts
2. Legal framework of public procurement in Romania
3. Institutional framework
3.1. The National Authority for Regulating and Monitoring Public Procurements (hereafter
NARMPP)
3.2. The National Council for Solving Legal Disputes (hereafter NCSLD)
3.3. The Court of Auditors
3.4. The Unit for the Coordination and Monitoring of Public Procurements
3.5. The Operator of the Electronic Public Procurements System
3.6. Contracting authorities
4. The regime of legal disputes in public procurements
Section 2 - SECONDARY CONSIDERATIONS IN THE AWARD OF PUBLIC
PROCUREMENT CONTRACTS
1. Legal framework
2. Instances of application
Case law
Section 3 - ADMINISTRATIVE AND JUDICIAL REVIEW OF PUBLIC PROCUREMENT
PROCEDURES
1. Legal framework
2. Review procedure and review bodies
2.1 Legal actions up to the conclusion of the public procurement contract
2.2 Legal actions brought after the conclusions of the public procurement contract
3. Constitutionality of the administrative-jurisdictional review by the Council; The legal status of the
Council; Latest developments
4. Parties in review procedure
5. Standstill provisions
6. Annulment of the award procedure
7. Suspension of the execution of the contract
8. Ineffectiveness (annulment of the contract)
Case law
Section 4 - PUBLIC PROCUREMENT OUTSIDE EU DIRECTIVES
1. Notion
2. National legal regime for PP contracts below the EU thresholds
2.1. Scope of the PP legal regime
2.2. EU thresholds and national thresholds – an outline
2.3. Legal regime of below thresholds contracts
2.4. Principles applicable to PP contracts below the EU thresholds
2.5. Applicable national thresholds other than the EU thresholds
2.6. Volume of contracts below the EU thresholds
2.7. Publicity rules for below EU thresholds contracts
Case law:
Theme 2 - CONCESSION CONTRACTS
Section 1 - LEGAL FRAMEWORK
1. The notion of concession
2. Distinction between service concessions and works concessions
3. Other types of public contracts close to the concession
4. Parties
5. Fields where concession is preferred and activities excluded
Section 2 - AWARD OF THE CONTRACT
1. Procedure
2. Content of concession contracts
3. Financing of concessions
Section 3 - LIFE OF CONCESSIONS
1. Remuneration
2. Length
3. Ownership arrangements
4. Subcontracts
5. Prerogatives of control
Section 4 - END OF CONCESSIONS
1. Termination of contract
2. Re-allocation
3. Litigation
Theme 3 - PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP CONTRACTS
1. Definitions of PPP
2. Legislative framework
3. Principles of PPP in Law no 178/2010
4. Concepts
5. Types of activities that can be carried out within public-private partnership projects
6. Public partners
6. Scope. Exceptions
7. Rules applicable to the conclusion of public-private partnership agreements
8. The project company
Readings:
D. Dragos, Public contracts and Public Private Partnerships, Tritonic, 2013
M. Comba, S. Steumer (ed), Sustainable Public Procurement in the EU, DJOF Publishing,
Copenhagen, 2010.
S. ARROWSMITH, Government Procurement and Judicial Review, Carswell, 1988, 345p.
S. ARROWSMITH, The Law of Public and Utilities Procurement, London, Sweet &Maxwell,
1996.
S. ARROWSMITH, J. LINARELLI, D. WALLACE, Regulating public procurement: national
and international perspectives, Kluwer Law International 2000, 1 vol., 856 p.
S. ARROWSMITH, M. TRYBUS (ed.), Public procurement: the continuing revolution, Kluwer
Law International Coll. International economic development law 2003, 286 p.
ABDEL-AZIZ, A.M. RUSSEL, A. D. "A structure for Public requirements in public private
partnerships", Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, Pub. NRC Research Press, Volume 28, n° 6,
December 2001, p. 891-909.
K. AMARA, "Les Partenariats publics- privés Québécois: tout reste encore à faire_!", in:
Contrats publics, Mélanges en l’honneur du Professeur Michel Guibal Tome 1, Presse de la Faculté de
droit de Montpellier, 2006, p. 387.
R. APELBAUM, "Les PPP et le développement du droit public français à l'étranger", AJDA,
2004, p. 1759.
S. ARROWSMITH, "Public private partnerships and the European procurements rules:
European Community policies in conflict", Common Market Law Review (CMLR) n° 3, 01/06/2000,
p. 709 -737.
S. ARROWSMITH, Public Private Partnerships and PFI, Sweet & Maxwell, 2000.
J.-B. AUBY, "Arbitrage et contrats de partenariat", Droit Administratif, Décembre, 2004, p. 3.
M. AUDIT, "Le contrat de partenariat ou l'essor de l'arbitrage en matière administrative", Rev.
Arb., 2004, n° 3, p. 541.
Ch. AUTEXIER, "L'introduction des contrats de partenariat en droit allemand", RFDA, 2006, p.
234.
N. AVERY, Public private partnership, Globe Business Publishing, 2006
R.B. BENNET, Local economic development: public-private partnership initiatives in Britain
and Germany, London: Belhaven Press, 1991.
A. K. BISWAS, Water Pricing and Public-private Partnership, Routledge, 2007
M. BULT-SPIERING, G. DEWULF, Strategic Issues in Public-private Partnerships: An
International Perspective, Blackwell Publishers, 2006, 216 p.
B. BULL, D. McNEILL, Development Issues in Global Governance: Public-Private Partnerships
and market multilateralism, Routledge, 2007, 208 p.
E. G. CARAYANNIS, J. M. ALEXANDER, Global and Local Knowledge: Glocal transatlantic
Public-Private Partnerships for Research and Technological Development, ed. Palgrave Macmillan,
2006, 240 p.
A. ESTACHE, M. DEWATRIPONT, P. A. GROUT, Public-private Partnerships, Centre for
Economic Policy Research, oct. 2007, 180 p.
P.J. GANDHI, M. J. JOSEPH, Public Private Partnership in Nation Building, Deep & Deep
2005, 238 p.
Additional materials will be provided in class or by e-mail/posted on Moodle.
Evaluation (including re-examination, September 2014): Participation in class (20%), Exam
(80%). Optional: scientific/research paper may be developed for 30% of the exam grade.
Topic for the research paper is to be discussed in class.
Note: The rules of the University regarding plagiarism and participation to courses will be duly
observed and enforced