The WTO Regime on Government Procurement

Sue Arrowsmith is Achilles Professor of Public Procurement Law and Policy and Director of the Public Procurement Research Group at the University of Nottingham School of Law. Robert Anderson is Counsellor and Team Leader for Government Procurement in the Secretariat of the World Trade Organization, and Special Professor in the School of Law at the University of Nottingham.

• Part I. The WTO Regime on Government Procurement: 1. The WTO regime on government procurement: past, present and future; Part II. Expanding the Scope of the Agreement on Government Procurement: Accession and Coverage: 2. Forging a more global procurement market: issues concerning accessions to the agreement on government procurement; 3. Accession to the agreement on government procurement: the case of China; 4. India's possible accession to the agreement on government procurement: what are the pros and cons?; 5. The benefits to developing countries of accession to the government procurement agreement: the case of Chinese Taipei; 6. The coverage negotiations for the agreement on government procurement: context, mandate, process and prospects; 7. A case study of coverage issues: Canada's sub-central coverage under the agreement on government procurement; 8. The procurement of state trading companies under the WTO agreements: a proposal for a way forward; 9. Addressing purchasing arrangements between public sector entities - what can the WTO learn from the EU's experience?; Part III. Revision of the Procedural Rules and Other Transparency Provisions of the Agreement on Government Procurement: 10. The revised agreement on government procurement: changes to the procedural rules and other transparency provisions; Part IV. Developing Countries in the WTO Procurement Regime: 11. Special and differential treatment for developing countries under the agreement on government procurement: the current text and new provisions; 12. Building sustainable capacity in public procurement; 13. Untying aid through the agreement on government procurement: a means to encourage developing country accession to the agreement and to improve aid effectiveness?; Part V. Economic and Social Development (Horizontal Policies) in Government Procurement: 14. The national treatment and exceptions provisions of the agreement on government procurement and the pursuit of horizontal policies; 15. The limited case for permitting SME procurement preferences in the agreement on government procurement; 16. Social policies in procurement and the agreement on government procurement: a perspective from South Africa; Part VI. Enforcement and Remedies: 17. Constructing a system of challenge procedures to comply with the government procurement agreement; 18. Designing effective challenge procedures: the EU's experience with remedies; 19. The design and operation of a bid challenge mechanism: the experience of Hong Kong; Part VII. Multilateralism and Regionalism: 20. Government procurement provisions in regional trade agreements: a stepping stone to GPA accession?; 21. A case study of regionalism: the EU-Cariforum economic partnership agreement; Part VIII. Challenges and New Directions: 22. Ensuring integrity and competition in public procurement markets: a dual challenge for good governance; 23. Developing multilateral rules on government procurement: the value of soft law; 24. Work of UNCITRAL on government procurement: purpose, objectives, and complementarity with the work of the WTO; 25. Global procurement law in times of crisis: new buy American policies and options in the WTO legal system; 26. Procurement rules in times of crisis: lessons from US government procurement in three episodes of 'crisis' in the 21st century.