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"Smart procurement aims to leverage public buying power in pursuit of social, environmental and innovation goals. Socially-orientated smart procurement has been a controversial issue under EU law. The extent to which the Court of Justice (ECJ) has supported or rather constrained its development has been intensely debated by academics and practitioners alike. After the slow development of a seemingly permissive approach, the ECJ case law reached an apparent turning point a decade ago in the often criticised judgments in Rüffert and Laval, which left a number of open questions. The more recent judgments in Bundesdruckerei and RegioPost have furthered the ECJ case law on socially-orientated smart procurement and aimed to clarify the limits within which Member States can use it to enforce labour standards. This case law opens up additional possibilities, but it also creates legal uncertainty concerning the interaction of the EU rules on the posting of workers, public procurement and fundamental internal market freedoms. These developments have been magnified by the reform of the EU public procurement rules in 2014. This book assesses the limits that the revised EU rules and the more recent ECJ case law impose on socially-orientated smart procurement and, more generally, critically reflects on potential future developments in this area of intersection of several strands of EU economic law."--Bloomsbury Publishing

"Public procurement and competition law are both important fields of EU law and policy, intimately intertwined in the creation of the internal market. Hitherto their close connection has been noted, but not closely examined. This work is the most comprehensive attempt to date to explain the many ways in which these fields, often considered independent of one another, interact and overlap in the creation of the internal market. This process of convergence between competition and public procurement law is particularly apparent in the 2014 Directives on public procurement, which consolidate the principle of competition in terms very close to those advanced by the author in the first edition. This second edition builds upon this approach and continues to ask how competition law principles inform and condition public procurement rules, and whether the latter (in their revised form) are adequate to ensure that competition is not distorted. The second edition also deepens the analysis of the market behaviour of the public buyer from a competition perspective. Proceeding through a careful assessment of the general rules of competition and public procurement, the book constantly tests the efficacy of these rules against a standard of the proper functioning of undistorted competition in the market for public procurement. It also traces the increasing relevance of competition considerations in the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union and sets out criteria and recommendations to continue influencing the development of EU Economic Law."--Bloomsbury Publishing

The recent Judgement of the European Court of Justice (Grand Chamber) of 1 March 2011, in case C-236/09 (Association belge des Consommateurs Test-Achats ASBL, and other v. Conseil des ministres) imposes an absolute rejection of the use of sex as a determining factor in the assesment of risk and the setting of individuals' premiumns and benefits in private insurance contracts. In the view of the authors, the Judgement constitutes an undesirable development in the acquis of EU anti-discrimination law and, most vertainly, in the technical regulation of insurance mechanisms. After setting the analytical grounds on the insurance risk (or aleas), its assesment and evaluation (even by indirect means) through statiscical methods, the authors clearly criticise the ECJ Judgment of 1 March 2011 and advocate for and justify the capital importance of the use of sex as a determining factor in the assessment of risk and setting of infividuals' premiums and benefits in private insurance contracts. ; La reciente Sentencia del tribunal de Justicia de la Unión Europea (Gran Sala), de 1 de marzo de 2011, en el asunto C-236/09 (Association belge des Consommateurs Test-Achatas ASBL y otros contra Conseil des ministres) viene a proscribir categoricamente y con caracter absoluto la discriminación por razón del sexo en la dete5rminación de la prima de los contratos de seguro. En opinión de los autores, se trata de un avance indeseable en el desarrollo del derecho comunitario en materia de igualdad y, desde luego, un retroceso en la regulación técnica de los mecanismos asegurativos. Partiendo de algunas reflexiones generales sobre la determinación del riesgo (o aleas) asegurado, su medición y determinación (siquiera indirecta) mediante métodos estadísticos-actuariales, los autores critican frontalmente la Sentencia del TJUE de 1 de marzo de 2011 y mantienen y justifican la importancia capital de la utilización del criterio del sexo del asegurado como factor de riesgo en aquellos seguros en que las personas de distinto sexo no presentan una identidad de riesgo.

"This book provides a timely analysis of transparency in public procurement law. In its first part, the book critically assesses a number of key matters from a general and comparative perspective, including corruption prevention, competition and commercial issues and access to remedies. The second part illustrates how the relevance of these aspects varies across member states of the EU."

La reciente Sentencia del tribunal de Justicia de la Unión Europea (Gran Sala), de 1 de marzo de 2011, en el asunto C-236/09 (Association belge des Consommateurs Test-Achatas ASBL y otros contra Conseil des ministres) viene a proscribir categoricamente y con caracter absoluto la discriminación por razón del sexo en la dete5rminación de la prima de los contratos de seguro. En opinión de los autores, se trata de un avance indeseable en el desarrollo del derecho comunitario en materia de igualdad y, desde luego, un retroceso en la regulación técnica de los mecanismos asegurativos. Partiendo de algunas reflexiones generales sobre la determinación del riesgo (o aleas) asegurado, su medición y determinación (siquiera indirecta) mediante métodos estadísticos-actuariales, los autores critican frontalmente la Sentencia del TJUE de 1 de marzo de 2011 y mantienen y justifican la importancia capital de la utilización del criterio del sexo del asegurado como factor de riesgo en aquellos seguros en que las personas de distinto sexo no presentan una identidad de riesgo. ; The recent Judgement of the European Court of Justice (Grand Chamber) of 1 March 2011, in case C-236/09 (Association belge des Consommateurs Test-Achats ASBL, and other v. Conseil des ministres) imposes an absolute rejection of the use of sex as a determining factor in the assesment of risk and the setting of individuals' premiumns and benefits in private insurance contracts. In the view of the authors, the Judgement constitutes an undesirable development in the acquis of EU anti-discrimination law and, most vertainly, in the technical regulation of insurance mechanisms. After setting the analytical grounds on the insurance risk (or aleas), its assesment and evaluation (even by indirect means) through statiscical methods, the authors clearly criticise the ECJ Judgment of 1 March 2011 and advocate for and justify the capital importance of the use of sex as a determining factor in the assessment of risk and setting of infividuals' premiums and benefits in private insurance contracts.