Public Procurement Development Programme in the Republic of Serbia for the period 2019–2023.

This publication contain the Public Procurement Development Programme in the Republic of Serbia for the period from 2019 until 2023. This text states that in a well-regulated public procurement system, free competition enables the state to procure goods, services and works of the required quality under the most favorable conditions, and economic entities to get the opportunity to do business with the state under equal conditions. Bearing in mind that the Republic of Serbia is in the process of accession to the European Union, the starting points for the modernization of the public procurement system will be based on the public procurement priorities set by the European Union. Those are: ensuring wider acceptance of innovative, green and social procurement; professionalization of public customers; increasing access to procurement markets; improving transparency, integrity and availability of data; increasing the digital transformation of procurement; cooperation for joint procurement. This text further indicates that the public procurements in the field of water management, energy, traffic and postal services, shall all be regulated in a special chapter of the announced Public Procurement Law of the Republic of Serbia (Official Gazette 91/2019). Public Procurement Law will contain provisions harmonized with several acts of the European Union, including the Directive 2014/25/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 on procurement by entities operating in the water, energy, transport and postal services sectors and repealing Directive 2004/17/EC.