@article{hausmann2013in-house author = {Friedrich Ludwig Hausmann and Georg Queisner}, title = {In-House Contracts and Inter-Municipal Cooperation – Exceptions from the European Union Procurement Law Should be Applied with Caution}, journal = {European Procurement & Public Private Partnership Law Review}, volume = {8}, number = {3}, year = {2013}, abstract = {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}, url = {https://doi.org/10.21552/EPPPL/2013/3/174} doi = {10.21552/EPPPL/2013/3/174} }