The European Public Procurement Network (PPN) is a co-operation network of public procurement expert officials, dedicated to European companies taking part in procurement procedures in other countries of the network than theirs. It involves all EU Member States, EU candidate countries, EEA Members and Switzerland.

The current participant states are :

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom.

The PPN' aims are :

  • to promote problem solving in cross-border cases relating to public procurement ;
  • to strengthen the application of the EU procurement rules through a mutual exchange of experience and benchmarking.

The European Commission strongly supports the PPN and is present in the network as an observer. Are also involved as observers, Macedonia (*), Serbia-Montenegro, European Investment Bank, OECD.

 

  (*) Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia