![Page 1: Post-Brexit public procurement: challenges and regulatory solutions](https://reader031.vdocuments.us/reader031/viewer/2022030318/5a650cc67f8b9a93328b48f7/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
Challenges and Regulatory
Solutions: Public
ProcurementDr Albert Sanchez-Graells
Reader in Economic Law
EURO-CEFG, MaCCI and the University of Mannheim Joint Conference “Trade Relations after Brexit: Impetus for the Negotiation Process”. Mannheim, 25-26 January 2018
![Page 2: Post-Brexit public procurement: challenges and regulatory solutions](https://reader031.vdocuments.us/reader031/viewer/2022030318/5a650cc67f8b9a93328b48f7/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
An unavoidable caveat
Without knowing the nature of the overall model for
future EU-UK relationships, this is largely guesswork
Discussion of regulatory issues in the transition
period particularly speculative, so focus on ‘post-
disconnection’ (if there is to be one)
![Page 3: Post-Brexit public procurement: challenges and regulatory solutions](https://reader031.vdocuments.us/reader031/viewer/2022030318/5a650cc67f8b9a93328b48f7/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
Agenda
‘External dimension’: WTO GPA-related issues and need for coordinated strategy
‘Internal dimension’: functional approach
• Substantive convergence
• Standards and transparency
• Administrative cooperation
• Cross-border cooperation
• Remedies
• Instrumentalisation of procurement?
![Page 4: Post-Brexit public procurement: challenges and regulatory solutions](https://reader031.vdocuments.us/reader031/viewer/2022030318/5a650cc67f8b9a93328b48f7/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
‘External dimension’
WTO GPA covered procurement
• Not only UK position affected (requires fresh accession)
• EU position affected due to reduced value of covered procurement
• To avoid disruption, EU-UK should establish a joint strategy in
their negotiations with other WTO GPA members—particularly as
to ways in which to renegotiate coverage (splitting may not do)
![Page 5: Post-Brexit public procurement: challenges and regulatory solutions](https://reader031.vdocuments.us/reader031/viewer/2022030318/5a650cc67f8b9a93328b48f7/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
‘Internal dimension’
This will not only be affected by negotiations between the EU and
UK, but also by the outcome of the WTO GPA adjustment
A big unknown concerns whether UK plans significant reform of
their domestic procurement rules
• WTO GPA baseline not significantly different from EU regulatory
baseline (except in qualification, some aspects of negotiations and
some aspects of remedies), so limited scope for reform
![Page 6: Post-Brexit public procurement: challenges and regulatory solutions](https://reader031.vdocuments.us/reader031/viewer/2022030318/5a650cc67f8b9a93328b48f7/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
Substantive convergence
Difficulties derived from the precarious position of future CJEU
case law may be particularly relevant in the area of procurement
• EU (Withdrawal) Bill, clause 6(2) problematic
• Possibility of creating obligation to follow new case law?
Additional difficulties derived from the Commission’s increasing
use of soft law and guidance (eg Commission’s Oct 2017 package)
![Page 7: Post-Brexit public procurement: challenges and regulatory solutions](https://reader031.vdocuments.us/reader031/viewer/2022030318/5a650cc67f8b9a93328b48f7/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
Standards and
transparencyHow to ensure transparency of opportunities
• Access / use of OJEU
(interconnection with Contracts Finder?)
• Use of CPV
Use of common technical standards (largely
as discussed by Prof F Kainer yesterday)
![Page 8: Post-Brexit public procurement: challenges and regulatory solutions](https://reader031.vdocuments.us/reader031/viewer/2022030318/5a650cc67f8b9a93328b48f7/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
Administrative
cooperationESPD
e-Certis
Development of standards for e-procurement
General issues of mutual recognition
• Including of specific certificates (eg environmental
management -> back to standards)
Enforcement and governance
![Page 9: Post-Brexit public procurement: challenges and regulatory solutions](https://reader031.vdocuments.us/reader031/viewer/2022030318/5a650cc67f8b9a93328b48f7/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
Cross-border
cooperationJoint and collaborative procurement
Impact on possibilities for CPBs to engage in cross-border sales
• Incidentally, future issues derived from subjection of CPBs to
competition law
Large infrastructure projects and other initiatives
![Page 10: Post-Brexit public procurement: challenges and regulatory solutions](https://reader031.vdocuments.us/reader031/viewer/2022030318/5a650cc67f8b9a93328b48f7/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
Remedies
Current uncertainty on procurement remedies
• Faulty on EU-end due to non-revision of
remedies directive post-2014 reform
• Current clash between UKSC and EFTA Ct
• On-going discussion of model in UK
Preliminary references to CJEU
![Page 11: Post-Brexit public procurement: challenges and regulatory solutions](https://reader031.vdocuments.us/reader031/viewer/2022030318/5a650cc67f8b9a93328b48f7/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
Instrumentalisation of procurement?
[Under the radar?]
Industrial policy by another name
• Issues around social value / localisation
• State aid implications / interaction
UK’s peculiar position concerning ring-fencing of contracts
![Page 12: Post-Brexit public procurement: challenges and regulatory solutions](https://reader031.vdocuments.us/reader031/viewer/2022030318/5a650cc67f8b9a93328b48f7/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
Further details
P Telles & A Sanchez-Graells,
‘Examining Brexit Through the GPA's
Lens: What Next for UK Public
Procurement Reform?’ (2017) 47(1)
Public Contract Law Journal 1-33.
https://ssrn.com/abstract=3076543
![Page 13: Post-Brexit public procurement: challenges and regulatory solutions](https://reader031.vdocuments.us/reader031/viewer/2022030318/5a650cc67f8b9a93328b48f7/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
Thank you for your
attention & stay in
@asanchezgraells
www.howtocrackanut.com