Current Administrative court practice in the procedure of Public Procurement

• Main Author: Silvio Čović
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Pravni fakultet Sveučilišta u Splitu 2017-01-01
• Series: Zbornik Radova Pravnog Fakulteta u Splitu
• Subjects: public procurement; public client; legal protection; right to appeal; costs of procedure; State Commission, administrative dispute
• Online Access: http://hrcak.srce.hr/file/259502

Under the current conditions of complex and difficult economic and social circumstances and given the comparative possibilities and economic effects, the system of public procurement which is firstly at a legal level regulated by the Public Procurement Act 8 (Zakon o javnoj nabavi) of 2011 (further referred to as: PPA (ZN), is of particular importance for the entire legal, political and economic system of the Republic of Croatia. Public procurement in essence represents contracting the procurement of goods, works or services. The specifities of that system are comprised, above all, of regulation of entering contractual relations between the public and private sector. Therefore, this system in principle must be formal in order to protect equality of competitors in the public procurement procedure and also in the general interest. Appreciating the legal tradition and indigenous particularities, the author’s fundamental aims consisted of providing and analysing administrative court practice in the context of international legal acquis communautaire showing some legal regulation in practice of disputable aspects of the system of public procurement in Croatia and the doubts emerging from current administrative court practice.