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Picture 1: Paul Humann, CEO of auftrag.at at the welcome speech, Wolfgang Renner and Eva Coscia
(Chairmen)
2 Working Session 1
The first working session was chaired by Wolfgang Renner. It was a mix of software
presentations (Austria, Spain) and project updates from the European Commission. The
highlight of this morning session was a panel discussion regarding the status quo of the
eprocurement development in 2010 with software providers, eprocurement specialists
and PEPPOL project members.
2.1 E-Certis Application / Process of DG-Markt Study – Marco
Tardioli (European Commission)
Marco Tardioli started with his presentation of the objective and progress of the DG-
MARKT Study from the European Commission: Within the Action Plan for Electronic
Procurement, adopted in 2004 to lead policy making aimed at improving eProcurement
practices in the EU, the Commission made a commitment "to review and report on the
results achieved and to propose if need be corrective action or additional measures." A
significant effort is under way to evaluate such results on conclusion of a large-scale
data collection.
The expected time completion of the evaluation is July 2010. As this work is still very
much in progress, the presentation provided a brief update on emerging findings and
next steps.
Report on the “Uptake of pre-awarding phases in eProcurement” Workshop – Vienna, 22nd
February 2010
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