The paper deals with the public procurement procedure in France under the Public Procurement Code. It deals with the basic principles of the procedure, such as equal access, equal treatment and transparency as well as with distinction between the contracting authority and the contracting entity in public procurement. It also presents the influence of the EU legislation on the French public procurement law and especially the complexity of the public procurement procedure. Unlawful practices are presented in the final part of the paper with the emphasis on the irregularities that may be ascribed either to contracting authorities or to economic operators or to both.Rad se bavi postupkom javne nabave u Francuskoj koji se provodi prema Zakonu o ...