Public Procurement Law 2025: To Make or Buy? Current Issues

On November 6, 2025, an international conference on public procurement law titled "Public Procurement Law 2025: To Make or Buy? Current Issues" will take place in Tallinn.

The conference will feature speakers including legal scholars from EU Member States and Estonia, judges, representatives from the Ministry of Finance, and practitioners in the field.

Between 2022 and 2025, the Public Procurement Law Research Group at the Faculty of Law, University of Tartu, focused on the topic of exemptions from procurement obligations—such as the so-called in-house and horizontal cooperation exceptions, and the legal complexities surrounding the application of the exceptions.[1] The conference will present key findings of this research project, including the conditions under which exceptions to procurement rules can be applied and how necessary acquisitions may be conducted internally by contracting authorities or in cooperation with other public entities. In addition, the conference will address other current issues in public procurement, including recent case law, and the ongoing revision of the 2014 EU directives. The authors will also introduce the new edition of the commented edition of the Estonian Public Procurement Act (RHS).

Working languages of the conference are Estonian and English. The event will take place in cooperation with the event organizer Addenda.

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