Introduction

In 2002, CMS Cameron McKenna published a bulletin on proposals to update the law on public procurement as it applied to the oil and gas industry, and the possibility of a total exemption being granted. In that bulletin we stated that it would be at least 12 months until the draft Directive was adopted. So, 18 months on, is there any sign of it? Well, after proceeding through the grindingly slow EU legislative process the Directive was finally adopted by the Council of Ministers on 2 February 2004. Member states will have 21 months to bring it into force domestically from the time ...