중동부유럽

Purpose: the article aims to analyse the reform of the European Union public procurement law on social aspects in different stages of the reformed public procurement procedures. Comprehensive reform of the European Union public procurement law was approved by the European Parliament in January 2014, adopted by the Council in February 2014, and legislative acts published on 28 March 2014. The current directives 2004/18/EC on procurement in public works, supply and service contracts, as well as 2004/17/EC on procurement in the water, energy, transport and postal services sectors were updated. Additionally, the new directive 2014/23/EU on the award of the concession contracts providing an orientation previously given only by the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union was adopted. Among other things the reform is highly focused on greater scope of social issues to be addressed in the public procurement procedures. The authors’ aim to analyse the way social issues are being tackled under the new directives. Design/methodology/approach – logical systematic method will be used in order to ascertain the content of the laws within the scope of the social aspects, whereas comparative method will be applied to ascertain national and European Union legal acts. On the basis of analytical method conclusions will be drawn. Findings – the authors will focus on legal analysis and considerations on social aspects in different stages of the reformed public procurement procedures ie in the stage when deciding on the subject-matter of the contract and the technical specifications, in the qualitative selection, in applying the award criteria and in the stage of performance of the contract. Research limitations/implications – the new directives also set new mandatory grounds related to the infringements of social and labour laws for excluding suppliers from the competitions for contracts, though the Paper will not analyse in-depth the legal issues of the labour law. Practical implications – the authors will be focused on some of the most important aspects of the new reform of the European Union public procurement law. The reform is new and approved at the beginning of this year thus there are no much consistent analysis of the social aspects in different stages of the reformed public procurement procedures. The Paper will be relevant to the public and private sectors, academic society and jurisprudence of Lithuania as well as European Union. Originality/Value – the authors will present in-depth legal analysis of the social aspects of the new directives. Such logical systematic analysis will help to correctly interpret the laws. Keywords: public procurement, directives, 2004/17/EC, 2004/18/EC, 2014/23/EU, 2014/24/EU, 2014/25/EU social aspects, social and labour laws, the European Union. Research type: research paper.