- Volume 7 (2012), Issue 2
- Vol. 7 (2012), No. 2
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- Pages 86 - 93
- pp. 86 - 93
In-House Procurement and Horizontal Cooperation Between Public Authorities
An Evaluation of Article 11 of the Commission’s Proposal for a Public Procurement Directive from a German Perspective
The Commission's reform of the Procurement Directive had raised high expectations among procurement experts, especially regarding the hitherto unwritten exceptions for in-house and horizontal cooperations between public authorities. A close examination of Article 11 of the proposal, however, shows that the provision does not meet these expectations. In order to preve