- Volume 8 (2013), Issue 4
- Vol. 8 (2013), No. 4
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- Pages 302 - 308
- pp. 302 - 308
Contract Execution in Europe: Different Legal Models with a Common Core
The comparative analysis of public procurement shows that in most European countries, the public contractor is endowed with special powers in the execution of the contract. This result, while demonstrating the utility of comparative studies on public procurement, leads to criticize classifications of public contracts along the divide between private and public legal regimes, which should be abandoned in favour of a different criterion founded on the “legal location” of t