TY - JOUR T1 - Where does the Regulation of Public Procurement and Public Private Partnerships take the Member States of the EU A1 - Bovis, Christopher PY - 2011 N2 - I. Introduction Since its foundation, the European Union has developed a system of legal, economic and political integration which is to be achieved through the progressive convergence of the economic policies of the Member States1. In this context, public procurement becomes one of the keystones within the European law with an estimate amount of business of Euro one trillion which represents about 20 % of the GPD; but what is public procurement in th JF - European Procurement & Public Private Partnership Law Review JA - European Procurement & Public Private Partnership Law Review VL - 6 IS - 2 UR - https://doi.org/10.21552/EPPPL/2011/2/120 M3 - doi:10.21552/EPPPL/2011/2/120 ER -