This one-day course is aimed at delivering not just the basics, but also the more detailed knowledge required to enhance skill levels and increase professionalism. Principally focused on the EC Treaty rules, the processes required to ensure best practice and the main principles of the EU Directives and UK Regulations, the Guide to EU Regulations seminar provides an overview of the issues impacting on the wider public procurement community.

Appropriate procurement training is vital to help ensure that public sector organisations are intelligent customers.

This Guide to EU Regulations seminar focuses on public sector purchasing and supply practices and procedures, and is designed specifically to impart professional practice.

It covers:

• the background to the legislative framework
• the procurement process
• letting high-value tenders
• the evaluation and award process
• the implications of CJEU rulings on procurement

This seminar also considers the implications of the Remedies Directive and its potential impact on procurement exercises if the EU process is applied incorrectly.

Public sector organisations must ensure that they set and achieve the very highest standards in procurement practice, ensuring that all contracts deliver both compliance and best value.

Understanding and applying the EU rules to the acquisition of goods, works and services, while continuing to comply with the UK Regulations, is fundamental to delivering compliant procurement.