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ERA: ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON EUROPEAN PUBLIC PROCUREMENT 2019

Date

07 Mar 2019 to 08 Mar 2019

Address

  Trier
Germany

Section

Education

Event Description

Objective

The aim of this year’s annual conference is to update legal practitioners on the latest trends and current issues in European public procurement law. The focus will be on EU policy developments, recent jurisprudence of the CJEU, procurement, innovation and digitalisation, practical issues and challenges and the anticipated impact of Brexit on EU public procurement.

Key topics

  • Innovation procurement and e-procurement
  • Promoting SME participation in public procurement
  • How to detect bid-rigging?
  • Public procurement and ESIF
  • Procurement for infrastructure projects
  • CJEU case law developments and their practical implications
  • Public procurement in Europe after Brexit

Speakers 

David Blanchard 
Deputy Head of Unit, G/4 Innovative and e-Procurement, DG GROW, European Commission, Brussels

Christopher Bovis 
Professor of Business Law, Business School, University of Hull

Antonio Capobianco 
Senior Competition Expert, OECD Competition Division, Paris

Alvydas Stancikas 
Head of Unit, G/3 Procurement Enforcement and Legislation, DG GROW, European Commission, Brussels

Rebecca Schäffer
Partner, Avocado Rechtsanwälte, Cologne/Brussels

Michael Jürgen Werner
Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright, Brussels

Who should attend?

Ministry officials and other civil servants dealing with public procurement matters, lawyers in private practice and in-house counsel.

>> Further information and online registration

Language: English, German (with simultaneous interpretation)

Organisers: ERA (Avgustina Dorich)

Event number: 219R11

 

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