The EU Commission has published a proposal for new public procurement rules, aimed at modernising and simplifying the public procurement framework and making it more flexible and effective. The proposed new regulation follows extensive discussions with, and reports by, several stakeholders, such as...
The Swedish Government has recently appointed an expert that will draft a proposal on how the procurement legislation should be changed to comply with the preliminary rulings of the Court of Justice of the European Union (“ECJ”) in cases C-652/22 and C-266/22, and what possibilities contracting auth...
Corruption and unlawful influence undermine fair competition in the market, discouraging legitimate companies from investing in business development. To combat these challenges, the Swedish Government has introduced the Action Plan Against Corruption and Unlawful Influence for 2024-2027 (Sw. Handlin...
In Sweden, review of public procurement’s is rather frequent compared to many other Member States. In 2020, more than 3,500 applications for review of public procurement’s were filed with the Swedish administrative courts according to statistics from the Swedish Competition Authority. Re...
The area of EU and competition law is in constant motion. Both the EU legislators and courts make sure that this field of law is developing at high speed. It is therefore becoming increasingly difficult to keep up to date with the latest developments in this area. At the same time, many of these dev...