Workshop A5

In-house procurement as a limit on the scope of the EC procurement rules

• Experiences and approaches to in-house procurement in the Member States
  Professor Roberto Caranta, Law Faculty, University of Turin, Italy
  
  
• Recent developments in the case law of the ECJ on in-house procurement
  Kurt Weltzien, Attorney-at-Law, NHO, Norway
  
  
• In-house procurement from the point of view of a practitioner
  René Offersen, Partner, Lett Law Firm, Denmark

Workshop B5

The interplay between public procurement law and competition law: the example of the EC

• Competition law against private restraints in the public procurement field: bid-rigging
  Ciara Kennedy-Loest, Partner, and Nicolas Pourbaix, Senior Associate, Hogan Lovells
  
  
• Competition law against public restraints in the public procurement field: importing competition considerations into the EC public procurement Directives
  Dr. Albert Sánchez Graells, Associate Professor, U.P. Comillas - ICADE, Madrid, Spain

Director: Dr. Albert Sánchez Graells,  Associate Professor in Commercial Law, UP Comillas - ICADE, Madrid

Workshop D5 

Panel discussion and audience discussion:

• Teaching of public procurement regulation in universities
• Development of the global Procurement Law Academic Network (PLAN)
• The relationship between higher education and the procurement professions
• Developing collaboration between law and other disciplines

• An analysis of the main aspects of the new Defence procurement Directive
  Dr. Aris Georgopoulos, PPRG, University of Nottingham, UK
  
  
• Risk of offsets and preventive mechanisms
  Julia Muravska, Researcher, Transparency International, UK
  
  
• Security (non Defence) Procurement in the Light of the New Directive
  Joanne Teal, First Legal Officer, Europol

Director: Aris Georgopoulos, PPRG, University of Nottingham, UK

Workshop B6

Self-cleaning as a limit on debarment from procurement for corruption and other crimes

• The EC rules and Member State practice
  Hans-Joachim Priess, Partner, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Germany
  
  
• A regulator's perspective
  Dr. Michael Fruhmann, Federal Chancellery of Austria, Austria
  
  
• Self-cleaning to avoid Debarment: The US Perspective and Practice
  Alan Gourley, Crowell and Moring, Washington D.C., USA

Director:  Hans-Joachim Priess, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Germany

Workshop C6

Regional regimes, globalisation and harmonisation in the developing world: Part I

• Harmonisation and market opening under the COMESA regime - a perspective from Africa
  Stephen Karangizi, Assistant Secretary General, COMESA
  
  
• The influence of national and international regimes on the procurement systems of southern Africa
  Professor Geo Quinot, Department of Public Law, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa

Workshop A7

Selection and award criteria in the case law of the ECJ

• The distinction between selection and award criteria following the ECJ ruling in Lianakis
  Roger Bickerstaff, Partner, Bird and Bird, UK
  
  
• Awarding complex contracts using "agile" approaches
  Tom Holsøe, Partner, Kammeradvokaten, Law Firm Poul Schmith, Denmark
  
  
• Conflicting Swedish approaches to the distinction between selection and award criteria
  Andrea Sundstrand, advokat and PhD student, University of Stockholm, Sweden
  
  
• Disclosure of award criteria
  Dr. Peter Braun, Orrick Hölters & Elsing, Germany

Director: Andrea Sundstrand, advokat and PhD student, University of Stockholm, Sweden

Workshop B7

Procurement of Public-Private Partnership arrangements

• Procurement of PPPs in a comparative perspective
  Professor François Lichère, University of Aix-Marseille III, Aix-en-Provence, France
  
  
• PPPs in the straitjacket of the EC public procurement rules
  Dr. Christina Tvarnø, Associate Professor, Law Department, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
  
  
• Procurement of PPPs: a perspective from South Africa
  Professor Phoebe Bolton, Faculty of Law, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Director: Associate Professor Christina Tvarnø,  Law Department, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

Workshop C7

Regional regimes, globalisation and harmonisation in the developing world: Part II

• Procurement of consultancy services and the harmonisation of development bank guidelines
  Peter Trepte, Company Law and European Group, Littleton Chambers and PPRG, University of Nottingham, UK
  
  
• Public procurement reform in Lebanon: progress and perspectives
  Youssef Saad, OMSAR, Lebanon

Workshop A8

Changes to concluded contracts since the Pressetext-case

• The theory and practice of post contract award changes including changes to the contract and contractor changes
  Jonathan Davey, Partner and Head of Commercial Group, Addleshaw Goddard, UK
  
  Simon Evers Kalsmose-Hjelmborg, Partner, Bech Bruun, Denmark
  

Workshop B8

New tools and initiatives for sustainability in public procurement and the implications of public procurement rules

• New practical tools and initiatives for implementing sustainability in the public procurement process
  Glenn Fletcher, Head of EC Service, Achilles Group, UK
  
  
• Law and practice in selected Member States of the EU on Green and Social Public Procurement
  Professor Martin Trybus, University of Birmingham, UK and Professor Roberto Caranta, Turin
  
  
• Green and Social Public Procurement: The WTO perspective
  Marc Steiner, Judge, Federal Administrative Court, Switzerland

Workshop C8

Use of country procurement systems by the development banks

• Use of Country Procurement Systems
  Devesh C. Mishra, The World Bank
  
  
• Lessons learned from the World Bank's pilot of use of country systems in bank-financed procurement
  Peter Trepte, Barrister, Littleton Chambers and Special Professor, PPRG, University of Nottingham, UK
  
  
• Use of country procurement systems: perspective from the Asian Development Bank
  Hamid Sharif, Principal Director, Central Operations Services, Asian Development Bank (ADB)