The content of the course is to provide the student with an overview of the EU-EEA public procurement law and its application by covering theoretical and practical aspects of the procurement activity.

The discipline of public procurement enjoys of great practical importance as it is the set of rules that applies to the acquisition of goods, services and/or works by contracting entities in the EU. Public procurement activity accounts for up to 19% of the GDP of the Union.

This course is designed to provide with a thorough analysis of the most relevant aspects of public procurement law, including but not limited to the following aspects:

• Definition and objectives of public procurement
• Public procurement directives in the EU and its interplay with the TFEU
• Core concepts such as contracting authority
• public contract
• economic operator

For exam purpose the requirement is thorough knowledge of material EU/EEA public procurement rules and case law as well as understanding of the relation between national and supranational legislation in this field of law.

The course will allow the student to:

• understand the goals of public procurement;
• understand and explain the core concepts of public procurement law;
• provide a detailed account of the different public procurement rules and their scope of application;
• describe the public procurement procedures towards the purchasing of goods, services and/or works;
• identify relevant problems of public procurement and offer solutions to them; and familiarize with some of the most relevant EU case law on public procurement.

During the course, the students shall write a final paper (maximum 2000 words, excluding footnotes). This will make up 50 % of the final mark.

50 % of the mark is based on a 4 hours school exam.

Support materials allowed during school exam

• Compendium of allowed material which shall be sold at Studia (ca. 100¿150 pages).
• See section 3-5 of the Supplementary Regulations for Studies at the Faculty of Law at the University of Bergen.

Special regulations about dictionaries

• According to the Regulations for Studies, one dictionary is permitted support material during the examination. Bilingual dictionaries containing for example both Norwegian-English and English-Norwegian are considered as one dictionary.
• Bilingual dictionaries to/from the same two languages - for example Norwegian-English/English-Norwegian - in two different volumes are also considered as one dictionary (irrespective of publisher or edition).
• Dictionaries as described above cannot be combined with any other types of dictionaries.
• Any kind of combination which makes up more than two physical volumes is forbidden.
• In case a student has a special need for any other combination than the above mentioned, such combination has to be clarified with/approved by the course coordinator minimum two weeks before the exam. Students who have not been granted permission to have a special combination minimum two weeks before the exam will be subject to the usual regulations (Section 3-5) about examination support materials.

No overlapping with courses at the Bergen Faculty of Law.

Combines successfully with JUS258-2-B Comptetion Law.

Associate Professor Christian Franklin.

Contact information: elective-courses@jurfa.uib.no