Brussels, 21/01/2005 (Agence Europe) - The Commission has launched an action plan to facilitate electronic public procurement procedures on the basis of European Directives 2004/18/EC and 2004/17/EC, to be transposed by 2006. The plan recommends adoption of a series of measures of a legal, technical and organisational kind which will allow Member States to successfully carry out the “dematerialisation” of public procurement at national level. The Commission considers that electronic...