Peter Trepte, of counsel, is an invited panellist at the Suspension and Debarment Colloquium organised by the Global Forum on Law, Justice and Development.

The colloquium is to be held at the World Bank Preston Auditorium in Washington DC on Thursday 15 May.

The European Parliament approved on Wednesday the proposal for new Directives on Public Procurement, reaching a further step in the ongoing modernisation process of the rules on Public Procurement.
 
The new Directives on public procurement and concession contracts will repeal the current rules as set forth respectively in Directives 2004/17/EC and 2004/18/EC.
 
The next steps include approval by the Council. If approved without amendments, they will be published in the Official Journal and will enter into force 20 days following its publication.

See article by Peter Trepte in our eBook on Public Procurement which can be downloaded here.

Alongside the revision of the procurement directives, the Parliament is in the final stages of approving a new directive regulating the award of concessions. The latest consolidated proposal from September can be found on the Parliament’s website at the following link
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/en/imco/subject-files.html?id=20120214CDT38041#menuzone

This fundamental change to the directives is now largely agreed and expected to be adopted in January 2014. The latest consolidated proposals for the directives from September can be found on the Parliament’s website at the following link:
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/en/imco/subject-files.html?id=20120214CDT38033#menuzone

The UK Bribery Act 2010 comes into force on 1 July 2011 following the publication, at the end of March, of detailed guidelines and intended effects of the Act.  In addition separate prosecution guidelines have been published by the Serious Fraud Office which explain when prosecutions are likely. Both documents are of central importance given the very wide scope of coverage of the Act.