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Swedish Presidency. Charlotta Frenander PPN Sweden. We will present. Sweden – the country Public Procurement in Sweden – in brief The coming PPN Presidency. Welcome to Sweden. Joined European Union1994 9,3 million citizens
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Swedish Presidency Charlotta Frenander PPN Sweden
We will present • Sweden – the country • Public Procurement in Sweden – in brief • The coming PPN Presidency
Welcome to Sweden • Joined European Union1994 • 9,3 million citizens • Localmunicipalities, countycouncils and governmentagencies • Stockholm capital city
Public Procurement in Sweden - in brief • Public Procurement Act (2007:1091) • Act on procurement within the water, energy, transport and postal services sectors (2007:1092) • Similarrulesbelow the thresholds and for B-services • Regulations: - environmentallyfriendly cars • - anti discriminationclauses
PPN Presidency • PPN - objectives and advantages: • Platform for mutualexchange of views and ideas • Opportunities for members to solve problems with cross borderprocurement • Accessible information on the PPN website
Forecast • Future changes and challenges • for the public procurement regime
PPN Presidency • We suggest: • Regularmeetings (in connection with ACPC) • Possibility for all members to attend all meetings and participate in all actvities • Members Conference (probably September 2012)
PPN Presidency • We suggest as forthcomingactivities: • Workinggroups– about the Green Paper on modernisation of the EU:s policy for public procurement • – Agree on somecommongrounds?
PPN Presidency • Othertopics to focus on? • E- procurement • Knowledge Centers / professionalism / ”help-desk” • Illegal directawards of contracts and sanctions in Memberstates • Otherinitiatives from members
PPN Presidency • the PPN website • Will be updated(from September) • Will function as before • More information available
PPN Presidency • Whathappensnext? • Meetings the daybefore ACPC at the Swedish representation in Brussels • All members are welcome • More information in early September
Contact: Charlotta Frenander • E-mail: ppnsweden@kkv.se
Welcome to Conference in Stockholm 31 August 2011 • The Costs of Different Goals of Public Procurement • Speakers amongothers: • Sue Arrowsmith, Professor University of Nottingham • Steven Kalman, Professor Harvard University • Klaus Wiedner, Head of Unit, European Commission
Thank you and welcome • to take part in the comingactivities in the network!