The European Court of Auditors issued, on Monday 4 December, a very harsh assessment of the application of the rules governing public procurement in the European Union, with the 2014 reform, in its view, having failed to make the procedures more attractive and, in fine, to increase competition between bidders.
According to the Court, in 2021, the share of public procurement contracts not put out to tender as a proportion of total public contracts was, on average, 16% at EU level. It was...