EU PUBLIC PROCUREMENT LAW TRAINING 5-6 March 2015 – Academy of European Law (ERA) - Trier, Germany

European Judicial Training Network Réseau Européen de Formation Judiciaire

PANEL OF SPEAKERS

Ms Volikou joined ERA’s Business Law Section in July 2013, where she currently holds the position of Course Director responsible for EU Competition, State Aid and Public Procurement Law.

She is a Law Graduate from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (2005), and hold an LL.M. in International and European Law with specialization on EU Law from University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2008), as well as a Postgraduate Diploma in EU Competition Law from King's College London, UK (2012).

Ms Volikou was a trainee lawyer at the Skoula, Marazakis & Kefaloyannis Law Firm in Heraklion, Greece, from 2006-2007, and a Bluebook trainee dealing with Internal Market Law and harmonization issues in the Tobacco Control team of the European Commission’s DG SANCO, in Brussels, Belgium (2009). She further worked as a Freelance legal editor at Caselex S.a.r.l. covering Greek Supreme Courts judgments on the EU Internal Market and EU Employment Law (2010). Ms Volikou is qualified to practice law in Greece since 2009 and practiced as a civil and commercial lawyer at Adamantia & Eirini Volikou Law Office, in Heraklion, Greece, from 2009 to 2013.

Lecture/Workshop: . Seminar Moderator Roberto CARANTA (Italy) [email protected]

Roberto Caranta is a Professor of Administrative Law with the Law Department of the University of Turin (Italy), as well as the Director of two master programs on Public Procurement Management for Sustainable Development organized by the University of Turin and the ITC-ILO. Professor Caranta is also frequently involved in training and consultation projects (such as the EU-PHARE projects), and was the General Rapporteur of the 2014 FIDE Congress in Copenhagen. Together with Steen Treumer, Professor Caranta is currently editing the ‘European Procurement Law Series’, to which his contribution include titles such as ‘Mapping the margins of EU public contracts law: covered, mixed, excluded and special contracts’ (in F. LICHÈRE, R. CARANTA and S. TREUMER (eds), Modernising Public Procurement: The New Directive (DJØF, 2014)), ‘Award criteria under EU law (old and new)’ (in M. COMBA – S. TREUMER (eds) Award of Contracts in EU Procurements (DJØF, 2013)), and ‘The Borders of EU Public Procurement Law’ (in D. DRAGOS – R. CARANTA (eds) Outside the EU Procurement Directives - Inside the Treaty? (DJØF, 2012)). With M. Trybus and G. Edelstam, he edited ‘EU Public Contract Law - Public Procurement and Beyond’ (Bruxelles, Bruylant, 2014), to which he contributed a chapter on ‘Sustainable Procurement’.

Professor Caranta is a member of the Procurement Review Board of the European Space Agency (ESA) and his analysis of the 2014 public procurement and concession directives is in print in the Common Market Law Review.

Lecture/Workshop: . Recent CJEU Case Law: Core Notions, Principles & Exemptions (Thursday, 5 March 2015, 09:45 – 11:00) Vera Eiró (Portugal) [email protected]

Dr Eiró holds a PhD in Public Law from the New Univeristy of Lisbon School of Law and is currently a Consultant in Public Law at the Banking and Projects Department of Linklaters LLP Lisbon Office. Her practice has focused on administrative law, environmental law, energy law, planning law and public procurement (in particular, public procurement in work and supply contracts). Ms Eiró has considerable experience in providing legal advice in regulatory and public law matters relevant to project finance projects and M&A transactions in highly regulated sectors, such as mining and energy. From 2008 to 2009, Ms Eiró was also an advisor at the Chambes of the Portuguese Constitutional Court.

In addition to her work with Linklaters, Ms Eiró is a Proffessor at the LL.M. programmes of the Catholic University of Lisbon and the New University of Lisbon School of Law, and has published several articles and monographs in the fields of Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, and Public Procurement Law.

Workshop/Lecture:

. New PP Directives: What Challenges Lie Ahead? (Thursday, 5 March 2015,11:30 – 13:00)

Nicolas POURBAIX (Belgium) [email protected] Mr Pourbaix is a Counsel based in Hogan Lovells' Brussels office, specialized in EU/UK public procurement law. He advises public and private sector clients on a variety of public procurement law issues, both under national law

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(implementing EU Directives) and the EU Financial Regulation applicable to procurement by EU institutions, His work includes the planning and structuring of complex transactions, setting up and management of framework agreements, drafting and review of contract notices and tender documents, conduct of tender procedures, and advice on State aid issues arising out of procurement transactions. Mr Pourbaix has represented a wide range of entities, ranging from ALSTOM Transport, to Fusion and Energy, the UK Depratment for Business, Innovaion and Skills, the Royal Mail Group, the European Agency for Reconstruction, and the European GNSS Supervisory Authority.

Mr Pourbaix is the author of the paper ‘The EU's international procurement initiative: opening foreign markets or acting as a new EU trade barrier?’, published in Hogan Lovells Publication in March 2012.

Workshop/Lecture:

. Procurements Falling Outside the Scope of the EU Directives: National Reports on the Applicable Rules & the Issue of Cross-border Interest (Thursday, 5 March 2015,14:00 – 15:30)

Spyros Panagopoulos (Greece) [email protected]

Spyros Panagopoulos is a lawyer licensed to the Greek Supreme Court and Council of State and holds the position of Chief Legal Counsel of the Hellenic Single Public Procurement Authority. He is a partner at the law firm A. Panagopoulos & Partners, specialized in consulting and litigation in the fields of EU and public economic law, contracts and company law. He also focuses on issues related to leasing law, construction and planning law as well as energy law. In his capacity as a public procurement & PPPs legal expert, Mr Panagopoulos has participated in a wide range of EU technical assistance, institution building and legislative reform projects in the CEE and SEE regions, aimed at transposing the acquis communautaire and European best practices in the fields of public procurement, PPPs and concessions law to the beneficiary countries.

Between 2002 and 2013, Mr Panagopoulos acted as researcher at the Centre of International and European Economic Law. He has published articles in the fields of European public procurement, concessions and PPP law, and has participated as a lecturer in numerous conferences and training seminars.

Mr Panagopoulos is a member of the Greek PPP Secretariat Experts team, the UNECE roster of PPP experts, the Thessaloniki Bar Association, the Greek Association of European Law, the Society of Construction and Technology Law, the Association of the German-speaking Lawyers of Northern Greece, the Alumni Network of the German School of Thessaloniki, and the editing team of the legal periodical “Public Procurement, State Aid and Market”.

Workshop/Lecture:

. Enforcement at National Level: Title IV of Directive 2014/24/EU (Friday, 6 March 2015, 09:00 – 09:45)

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Aleksandra SOŁTYSIŃSKA (Poland) [email protected]

Ms Sołtysińska is a judge at the Circuit Court in Cracow specialized in EU Law matters and mutual legal assistance. Between 2008 and 2013, Judge Sołtysińska was a member of the qualifying committee for arbitrators of the National Appeal Chamber competent for the examination of the appeals lodged in contract award procedures, and in 2014 she was the national rapporteur for the XXVI FIDE Congress on the topic “Public Procurement Law”.

In addition to her judicial career, Ms Sołtysińska is a lecturer of EU Law at the Jagiellonian University, Cracow, where she conducts courses and seminars on EU Public Procurement Law and other aspects of EU Law. She is also an experienced judicial trainer at the National School of Judiciary and Public Prosecution of Poland, as well as an occasional lecturer at other Universities in Poland.

Judge Sołtysińska defended her doctoral thesis on the topic “The Principle of Equal Treatment of Contractors in Public Procurement Law” and is the author of a number of books and articles on EU Public Procurement Law.

Workshop/Lecture:

. Means of Redress at National Level: Remedies Directives (Friday, 6 March 2015, 09:45 – 11:00) . Divergences between Member States: National Reports (Friday, 6 March 2015, 11:30 – 12:30)

With the support of the European Union

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