A European Strategy for Public Procurement

23^rd April 2012

Michel Barnier, European Commissioner for the Internal Market, presented the EU's strategy for e-procurement. By 2016 all public procurement markets are to be involved thereby enabling savings of around 100 billion euros per year; it will also improve the participation of SMEs. "The earlier the transition, the earlier the advantages offered by e-procurement will be achieved," he said. The strategy defined four priorities: support to the establishment of the infrastructure, the support of good practice, the surveillance of the transition towards the digital economy and communication with businesses.

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