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PPP in the Transport Sectors: A Framework of Engaging the Private Sector in delivering Public Services competitively and efficiently journal article

Christopher Bovis

European Procurement & Public Private Partnership Law Review, Volume 3 (2008), Issue 2, Page 13

I. Introduction A conceptual dissection of the application of state aids rules to transport reveals a pendulum effect between the functioning of two concepts across the specific sectors: public service obligations (PSO) and operational state aids. The sectoral application of state aids law and policy to the EU transport has been channeled through Articles 73 and 76 EC. The function of these legal provisions within the legislative system of state aids


The Effects of the Principles of Transparency and Accountability on Public Procurement and Public Private Partnerships Regulation journal article

Christopher Bovis

European Procurement & Public Private Partnership Law Review, Volume 3 (2008), Issue 1, Page 19

The Effects of the Principles of Transparency on Public Procurement and PPP Regulation The principles of transparency and accountability depict the skeleton of public procurement and public private partnership regulation. They have direct influence on two fronts: a) the behavioral patterns of the state, public bodies and contracting authorities and b) the emergence and structure of a sui generis market place. The regulation of public procurement, through t


Editorial0108 journal article

Christopher Bovis

European Procurement & Public Private Partnership Law Review, Volume 3 (2008), Issue 1, Page 4

Editorial Interpretative Communication on the application of Community law (on Public Procurement) and Concessions to IPPP The European Parliament, in its Resolution on Public-Private Partnerships1, acknowledged the need for clarity about the application of procurement law to the creation of public-private undertakings in connection with the award of a contract or concession, and called on the Commission to provide clarifications in the fork of a


How Do Member States view Public Private Partnerships? journal article

Christopher Bovis

European Procurement & Public Private Partnership Law Review, Volume 3 (2008), Issue 3, Page 20

How Do Member States view Public Private Partnerships? How Do Member States view Public Private Partnerships? A critical analysis of the public consultation of the Green Paper on PPPs and the Commission’s Information Memorandum on Institutional PPPs.** I. Background The aim of the PPP Green Paper was to launch a debate to find out whether the Community needs to intervene to give economic operators in the Member States better access to the various form


Editorial0208 journal article

Christopher Bovis

European Procurement & Public Private Partnership Law Review, Volume 3 (2008), Issue 2, Page 2

Editorial Significant developments affect Urban Regeneration in the UK and introduce a policy framework for PPPs The Housing and Regeneration Bill In July 2007 the Housing Green Paper, Homes for the Future: more affordable, more sustainable, set a goal of increasing the supply of housing so that three million new homes are provided by 2020. This goal was set in response to the fact that housing supply is failing to keep up with rising demand


Public-Private Partnerships in the Defence Sector: How Offset Agreements interface between the private and public Stakeholders journal article

Christopher Bovis

European Procurement & Public Private Partnership Law Review, Volume 3 (2008), Issue 4, Page 14

I. Introduction National defence has always been an issue of great importance in every society. Nations raise armies and develop and produce weapons to arm them in order to defend their own borders and also to assert themselves over other nations. Behind today’s defence systems is a vast industry researching, developing, producing and, ultimately, selling the weaponry needed to sustain military readiness. This military-industrial relationship accounts


Editorial0408 journal article

Christopher Bovis

European Procurement & Public Private Partnership Law Review, Volume 3 (2008), Issue 4, Page 2

Editorial The European Commissioner for the Internal Market and Services, Charlie McCreevy reiterated the importance of public private partnerships and public procurement in the Commission’s strategy to stimulate the European economy in a meeting with the Business Services Association in London, on 11 December 2008. He referred to the long-standing experience of the UK as far as PPPs and outsourcing services and the demonstrable track record of p


Editorial0307 journal article

Christopher Bovis

European Procurement & Public Private Partnership Law Review, Volume 2 (2007), Issue 3, Page 8

How has the Private Finance Initiative influenced the evolution of the notion of Contractualised Governance? The Private Finance Initiative represents a process in public sector management which envisages the utilisation of private finances for the delivery of public services and the provision of public infrastructure. Initially launched in 1992, the Private Finance Initiative did not receive the envisaged response from both the public and the private


Editorial0207 journal article

Christopher Bovis

European Procurement & Public Private Partnership Law Review, Volume 2 (2007), Issue 2, Page 1

Editorial Based on a introduction to and overview of the German PPP Market in general, Hans Wilhelm Alfen and Susann Vollrath give a market insight of PPP public real estate projects in Germany. They discover a persistent growth of the German PPP market in the data on realised and scheduled projects. The authors also expect that the upward tendency in the PPP activities in Germany will continue and finally reach an international level. The centra


Judicial review of Public Private Partnerships journal article

Christopher Bovis

European Procurement & Public Private Partnership Law Review, Volume 2 (2007), Issue 2, Page 8

The award of public private partnerships follows the rules stipulated in the EU Public Procurement Directives. For the purposes of accountability, legal certainty and legitimate expectation, European institutions envisaged the introduction of a system of judicial review of the award stage of public contracts, which include public private partnerships either in institutional or contractual form or in the form of a concession. Traditionally, the enactme