The Government Procurement Review

The third edition of The Government Procurement Review brings even wider geographic coverage than the second edition, now covering six continents and 27 national chapters (including the EU chapter).

In Romania, public procurement contracts are essentially regulated by Government Emergency Ordinance No. 34/2006 on the award of public procurement contracts, public works concession contracts and service concession contracts (GEO No. 34/2006). Specific sector regulation and clarifications of GEO No. 34/2006 can be found in the secondary legislation, consisting of government decisions and National Authority for the Regulation and Monitoring of Public Procurement (ANRMAP) orders. GEO No. 34/2006 transposes EC directives on public procurement and creates the legal framework to secure compliance with the principles of contract awarding in public procurement: non-discrimination, equal treatment, mutual recognition, transparency, proportionality, optimum use of funds and undertaking of liability.

It is expected that the procurement legislation will undergo significant changes, while some pieces of legislation may be even replaced entirely, in the context of the transposition into the national framework of the EU New Directives enacted in the public procurement field. The deadline set forth in the New Directives for the transposition of the new public procurement rules into national law is April 2016.

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