The Portuguese presidency of the European Union fulfilled its pledge to finalise internal negotiations within the Council to allow a long-awaited regulation on international procurement bids in Europe to proceed.
International Procurement Instrument
*UPDATED* FAC Trade: Trade policy review conclusions, IPI
Council conclusions on EU trade review stumble over open strategic autonomy, Mercosur, Mexico
International Procurement Instrument legislation enters fine-tuning stage
The European Union’s member states are in what many in Brussels believe to be the final stages of preparation of a long-awaited regulation that aims to promote international ‘reciprocity’ in market access for public sector contracts.
International procurement instrument negotiations make their way in Council
Internal European Union member state negotiations over a new regulation that could trigger price increases or market exclusion of third country bidders in public procurement markets are making progress again.
COM in procurement reciprocity push, vaccine export controls in face of Biden moves
European Union trade tensions with the United States inherited from the Trump era are not quite yet at the cusp of being resolved with the incoming Joe Biden administration.
New EU procurement legislation: still “long way to go”
The Finnish presidency of the European Council has tried to bring forward discussions among member states on how to bring forward a piece of legislation on public procurement aimed at creating ‘leverage’ vis-à-vis third countries with procurement markets that exclude European firms. The talks have started again, but the Council …
A week in Brussels: Brexit, IPI, where is the Vietnam FTA?
So, dear friends, we are going into a week-end with the United Kingdom ready to default into a no-deal Brexit on 12 April. Or most likely there will be a long extension of its EU membership, and potentially general (and European) elections…. This week was dominated by wrangles between France …
A week in Brussels: Culture goods, procurement, Sri Lanka
This week was comparatively quiet. It was Easter, after all. There’s been some movement on the wider global trade war front. Don’t forget to read up on our two articles here and here. The headlines of these articles’ may say ‘China’ or ‘Japan’, but the pieces include a lot …
Procurement reciprocity: Caspary report calls for return to full market access suspension
The European Parliament has started working on the EU’s revised so-called ‘IPI’ regulation. Rapporteur Daniel Caspary (EPP, Germany) is not entirely happy with the proposed changes to the EU’s International Procurement Instrument legislation. The EU is working on a revision of a regulatory proposal initiated in 2012 under then trade commissioner …
