The basic principles of public procurement

101 SUMMARY The Basic Principles of Public Procurement The purpose of my thesis is to analyze the basic principles of public procurement. I've chosen this subject because of my great interest in public procurement law. Contracting authorities spend public money in awarding public contracts and the public definitely have an interest in the economical and effective expenditure of public money. Procurement rules are an important instrument in getting advantages such as a lower price, better knowledge about the market and better service from suppliers. Recently, new EU public procurement directives were adopted (directive 2004/17/EC and 2004/18EC). The Czech legislator implemented the new EU public procurement directives into the new Act No. 137/2006 Coll., on Public Procurement. In my thesis I am concerned with both sources. In the EU level I especially deal with directive 2004/18/EC. I try to identify the most important issues in the directive 2004/18/EC from the point of view of the basic principles and appraise their implementation into the Czech legislation. In my thesis I also use judicature (judicature of the European courts as well as Czech courts) a lot, because judicature is very important in this field of law. Not all questions which are rising from applying basic principles are solved in legal..