Public procurement and the EU competition rules/ Albert Sanchez Graells

Part I: Introduction 1 Introduction and Framework for Analysis Part II: Foundations and Principles. The Economic and Legal Basics of Public Procurement and Competition Law 2 An Economic Approach to Public Procurement and Competition 3 Basics of Competition and Public Procurement Regulation Conclusions to Part II: Legal and Economic Normative Foundations of a More Competition-Oriented Public Procurement System Part III: General Part-The Building Blocks of a Framework for the Competition Analysis of Public Procurement 4 EU Competition Law and Public Procurement-The Inability of EU Competition Rules to Rein in Anti-Competitive Public Procurement 5 The Principle of Competition Embedded in the EU Public Procurement Directives Conclusions to Part III: Sketching a Legal Framework to Discipline the Market Behaviour of the Public Buyer and to Guarantee Undistorted Competition in Public Procurement Part IV: Analysis of Competition Distortions Caused by Public Procurement 6 A Critical Assessment of Current EU Public Procurement Directives and their Case Law from a Competition Perspective-Preventing Competitive Distortions by the Public Buyer 7 Complementary Proposals for the Development of a More Competition-Oriented Public Procurement Framework Part V: General Conclusions 8 Conclusions of this Study on Public Procurement and the EU Competition Rules-Towards a More Competition-Oriented Procurement System