Contract Changes

Edited by Dacian C. Dragos, Professor, Center for Good Governance Studies, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania, Kirsi-Maria Halonen, Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Lapland, Finland, Bogdana Neamtu, Associate Professor, Center for Good Governance Studies, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania and the late Steen Treumer, formerly Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

• Contents:Foreword xi1 Introduction: why the ‘Dark Side of procurement’? 1Dacian C. Dragos and Bogdana Neamtu2 Fundamentals of contract modifications in EU procurement law 17Kirsi-Maria Halonen3 Change of the identity of the contractual partner 35Nicolas Gabayet4 Non-compliance with government contract terms:a comparative view on procurement regulation andcontractual remedies 48Désirée Klingler and Pedro Telles5 Unforeseen circumstances that justify changes to public contracts 68Mari Ann Simovart6 Modification of contracts in Denmark 96Carina Risvig Hamer7 Public contract modifications in England, Wales, andNorthern Ireland 109Pedro Telles8 Contract changes in Finland 125Merja Kortesuo and Pilvi Takala9 Contract changes in France 140François Lichère and Valentin Lamy10 Contract changes in Germany and Austria 154Christoph Krönke and Valentina Neubauer11 Contract changes in Italy 178Benedetta Biancardi, Roberto Caranta and Paolo Patrito12 Contract modifications in Poland – Much ado about nothing? 194Piotr Bogdanowicz13 Contract changes in the Romanian law 206Daniela Cimpean, Dacian C. Dragos and Bogdana Neamtu14 Contract changes in the Spanish system on public procurement 220Patricia Valcárcel Fernández15 Contract modifications in the Netherlands: understandingthe law, jurisprudence and practice 234Erik Plas and Willem A. JanssenIndex 249

‘The execution phase of public contracts is subject to public procurement law and principles, but it is non-transparent compared with the pre-award stages of public contracting. With its comparative study of procurement contract execution in several EU countries this book provides a highly valuable insight into this post-award area of public procurement law.’