- Volume 6 (2011), Issue 1
- Vol. 6 (2011), No. 1
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Editorial - New Directions in Public Private Partnerships: Judicial Developments from the European Court of Justice
I. Introduction Two concepts are fundamental to the traction of public procurement law: the concept of contracting authorities (contracting entities in Utilities procurement) and the concept of public contracts. For the purposes of both the Public Sector and the Utilities procurement Directives, contracting authorities (entities) means the State, regional or local authorities, bodies governed by public law, associations formed by one or several of suc