- Volume 8 (2013), Issue 3
- Vol. 8 (2013), No. 3
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- Pages 231 - 237
- pp. 231 - 237
In-House Contracts and Inter-Municipal Cooperation – Exceptions from the European Union Procurement Law Should be Applied with Caution
The European Union has drawn up rules for the award of public contracts exceeding a certain value, in order to guarantee that public procurement be open to competition and to avoid market distortion.1 As a principle, contracting authorities have to put out public contracts to tender. An exception to this principle applies where a contracting authority does not purchase from a market but receives services from another public entity within the State organisation (public