Principles of joint cross-border public contracts and transnational effects

The chapter analyses the transnational perspective on public procurement and public contracts, focusing on the aspects that are not entirely covered by the European Directive provisions but let national choices to regulate cross-border legal effects of public contracts in different countries. Joint cross-border public procurement, as provided in the EU Directives, had the goal to open the EU internal market to the undertakings, thus providing the possibility for them to participate to the award procedures published by the procuring entities of different Member States.