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Pedro Telles: “The Single Market and

Home Bias: Have the EU Directives

Opened Up Public Procurement?”

The Single Market and Home Bias: Have the EU Directives Opened Up Public Procurement?

Pedro Telles, Ph. D., Associate Professor, Copenhagen Business School, Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark; pt.bhl@cbs.dk; ORCID ID: orcid.org/0000-0002-0666-6351

Summary
This paper examines the success of EU public procurement Directives in opening up public procurement and integrating it into the single market. Through a secondary analysis of 11 studies conducted between 2007-2023, covering three generations of EU public procurement legislation, the research shows that successive rounds of increasingly detailed secondary legislation failed to substantially increase direct cross-border procurement or meaningfully reduce home bias. In addition to low direct cross-border procurement, import penetration data provide further evidence of persistent home bias, with public sector import penetration remaining significantly below that of the private sector. While the reasons for this lack of evolution are yet to be fully explained, the paper concludes that the path-dependent evolution of the procurement Directives, characterised by growing complexity without paradigmatic change, might have reached its limits for opening up public procurement and integrating it into the single market. With this failure in mind and as the current EU public procurement legislative framework is under review, alternative regulatory approaches, such as shifting to a Regulation as choice of legislative instrument or reverting to general EU procurement principles, may warrant consideration.

Key words: EU public procurement; cross-border procurement; home bias; single market; internal market

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3935/zpfz.76.5.2

Hrčak ID: 351903

URI: https://hrcak.srce.hr/351903

Pages: 757-786

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Unutarnje tržište i domaća pristranost: Jesu li direktive EU-a otvorile javnu nabavu?

Dr. sc. Pedro Telles, izvanredni profesor, Copenhagen Business School, Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Danska; pt.bhl@cbs.dk; ORCID ID: orcid.org/0000-0002-0666-6351

Sažetak
Ovaj rad analizira uspješnost direktiva EU-a u otvaranju javne nabave i integraciji javne nabave u unutarnje tržište. Putem sekundarne analize 11 studija provedenih između 2007. i 2023. godine koje pokrivaju tri generacije zakonodavstva EU-a o javnoj nabavi, istraživanje pokazuje da uzastopno donošenje sve detaljnijeg sekundarnog zakonodavstva nije dovelo do znatnog povećanja izravne prekogranične javne nabave niti do značajnog smanjenja sklonosti domaćim gospodarskim subjektima (tzv. home bias). Osim niske razine izravne prekogranične javne nabave, podaci o udjelu uvoza dodatno potvrđuju postojanost takve sklonosti, pri čemu je udio uvoza u javnom sektoru i dalje znatno niži nego u privatnom sektoru. Iako razlozi takvog izostanka razvoja još nisu u potpunosti razjašnjeni, u radu se zaključuje da je razvoj direktiva o javnoj nabavi, uvjetovan prethodno zacrtanim razvojnim putem i obilježen sve većom složenošću bez promjene temeljne paradigme, možda dosegnuo svoje granice u pogledu daljnjeg otvaranja javne nabave i njezina uključivanja u jedinstveno tržište. S obzirom na taj neuspjeh i kako je trenutačni zakonodavni okvir EU-a o javnoj nabavi u reviziji, alternativni regulatorni pristupi, poput prebacivanja na Uredbu kao instrument zakonodavstva ili vraćanja na opća načela nabave EU-a, mogu biti vrijedni razmatranja.

Ključne riječi: javna nabava EU-a; prekogranična nabava; domaća pristranost; zajedničko tržište; unutarnje tržište

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3935/zpfz.76.5.2

Hrčak ID: 351903

URI: https://hrcak.srce.hr/351903

Stranice: 757-786

- Pedro Telles