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05/02/2010 - Tokyo, Japan
Promoting Government e-Procurement: Initiatives in Europe and Japan (Seminar)
Date of Event: 5 February 2010
Venue: EU-Japan for Industrial Cooperation, Tokyo, Japan
Organised by: EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation Tokyo, Japan
Participation: Free
Language: English / Japanese (with simultaneous interpretation)
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Overview:
Public procurement is an important sector of the EU economy, accounting nearly 16% of its GDP. The EU has made efforts to improve efficiency in public procurement markets, to remove costs for both administration and businesses and to make procurement opportunities more transparent for industry. In 2004 a legislative package was adopted to simply and modernise the EU public procurement Directives, for example, by facilitating “electronic procurementâ€. The Commission has issued an Action Plan in order to help Member States implement the Directives correctly, so as to release the full potential of electronic public procurement. Similarly in Japan, many public entities, both at national and local levels, have introduced e-procurement systems as part of their efforts to improve the public procurement systems. This seminar aimed to discuss initiatives to promote “e-procurement†in Europe and Japan by inviting experts from the European Commission to present how the EU’s e-procurement system works. The seminar was also joined by representatives of a European and Japanese local entities to introduce their initiatives to use e-procurement. Programme:
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