THE REFORM OF THE PUBLIC PROCUREMENT SYSTEM – A PREMISE OF INCREASING ABSORPTION OF EUROPEAN FUNDS AND FOSTERING COMPETITION ON THE SINGLE MARKET

Mihaela Adriana  OPRESCU

Authors

Mihaela Adriana OPRESCU Lecturer PhD, Department of European Studies and Governance, Faculty of European Studies, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Email: mihaela.oprescu@euro.ubbcluj.ro. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6005-281X

Keywords:

public procurement, value thresholds, subcontractors, direct payments, competition, granting criteria

Abstract

Under the auspices of the two Acts on the Single Market (2011, 2012) and the Europe 2020 Strategy, and given that the financial risks involved and the tight connection between the public and private environments may transform public procurement into a vulnerable area faced with unfair commercial practices, with the 2007-2013 programming period providing numerous such examples in Romania, there has been a need for a new approach to procurement. This has implied, on the one hand, the adoption of clear, coherent, stable and predictable legislation (transposed from European legislation), and on the other hand, the reconfiguring and broadening of granting procedures.

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