ABSTRACT
A deterrent against the UK diverging from the EU’s procurement rules is the EU’s proposed International Procurement Instrument. The European Commission aims to put in place measures to allow the EU to close its public procurement markets to states that do not allow reciprocal and enforceable access to their own public procurement markets. 1 This would encourage the UK to maintain a regulatory procurement regime which is largely comparable to the EU’s current legislation, so that market access can be maintained. There is no precise date for when exactly the proposed measures might take effect. The European Commission’s proposal aims to incentivise non-EU countries to open up their public procurement markets.
