Public Procurement

Which Member States have transposed Directive 2014/24/EU already?

Pedro Telles

Apr 19, 2016

Out of the 28 Member States, which have transposed Directive 2014/24/EU so far?

Transposed before deadline:

Bulgaria, Denmark, France, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, UK.

Transposed after deadline:

Ireland (May 2016, Italy (April 2016)

Did not transpose yet:

Czech Republic, Finland, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden.

Unknown (at least for me):

Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Cyprus, Germany, Greece, Estonia, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta,

(List up-to-date as of May 10th, if you have information of any country on the unknown heading, please let me know)

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