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Professor Sue Arrowsmith; Achilles Professor of Public Procurement Law and  Policy, University of Nottingham (S3.1) Outline  Concessions and other public‐private partnerships  (PPPs)  Framework agreements 2 Concessions and other PPPs  PPPs: long‐term arrangements with close private  sector involvement in provision of services and  infrastructure  Great – and increasing ‐ interest to trade  GPA Committee Decision of 30 March 2012 added to  work programmes: “a review of the use, transparency  and the legal frameworks of public‐private  partnerships, and their relationship to covered  procurement” 3 Concessions and other PPPs  Ordinary contractual arrangements (payment by  public bodies for services or infrastructure) covered by  GPA   Depends on scope of coverage for each Party (type of  services, thresholds etc) 4 Concessions and other PPPs  Concessions ‐ where contractor is remunerated by  exploiting the work or services (payments from users)  E.g. toll motorway; construction and operation of  tramway ; electronic telephone directory  Often treated as outside rules on public  contracts/procurement under domestic procurement  laws UNCITRAL has separate provisions (Legislative Guide; and   Model Legislative Provisions) EU has a special Concessions Directive 2014/23 and only   recently fully regulated such arrangements 5 Concessions and other PPPs  Joint venture companies between public and private  bodies (which may not be covered by GPA), with work  contracted out to the private sector partner  (“Institutional PPPs”)  “Development agreements” e.g. regeneration project  where contractor builds public infrastructure (as well  as commercial properties) on part of land provided by  public sector 6 Concessions and other PPPs  Are these arrangements covered by GPA?  GPA applies to “any measure regarding covered  procurement”: ArtII.1 Art.II.2 further defines, but does not deal with these issues  7 Concessions and other PPPs  Are these arrangements covered by the GPA?  Is the concept of “procurement” defined by a Party’s  national system ‐ or uniform for all Parties? Latter approach used in e.g. 1984 Report on VAT and   Threshold  Complicated by fact that some Parties explicitly cover  some of these arrangements in Annexes: EU and Montenegro cover works concessions for some   countries and Korea some “BOT” transactions – defined to  cover arrangements involving exploitation of what is provided;  also Japan. 8 Concessions and other PPPs  If not procurement are they then outside the  “government procurement” exemptions of the  GATT/GATS? 9 Concessions and other PPPs  General coverage of these arrangements should be  explicitly resolved  Challenges:  Differences in inclination to cover  Differences in national systems  Are GPA procedures suitable?  Defining the covered transactions  Joint ventures and development agreements very  difficult to deal with – concessions less so? 10

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