The 2016 European Union International Procurement Instrument's Amendments to the 2012 Buy European Proposal: A Retrospective Assessment of Its Prospects

摘要

This article assesses the European Commission's 2016 Amended Proposal for 'a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the access of third-country goods and services to the Union's internal market in public procurement and procedures supporting negotiations on access of Union goods and services to the public procurement markets of third countries'.(1) The proposed regulation aims to improve the conditions under which European Union (EU) businesses can compete for public contracts abroad. It provides the EU with leverage through imposing a price penalty on any tender for an EU procurement which is originating in a country that does not offer the EU 'reciprocity' in access to its procurement markets.