PROGRAMME

November 11, 2025

Trg Republike Hrvatske 3, Zagreb (University of Zagreb Faculty of Law)

Lecture room III

08.30 - 09.00      

Registration

09.00 - 09.15     

Welcome 

09.15 - 10.45     

Panel: A Look Ahead - Remedies

Moderator: Maja Kuhar, DKOM president

'Effective Remedies and Review Systems – What Could Be Improved?'

Professor Carina Risvig Hamer, University of Copenhagen

'Are Damages the New Paradigm for Enforcing Public Procurement Rules?'

Professor François Lichère, University of Jean Moulin Lyon 3

'Ensuring the Sustainability of Public Procurement Through the Availability of Legal Remedies to Representatives of the Civil Society'

Bojana Todorović, Lecturer, University of Belgrade 

'Reform of the Public Procurement Directives - What About the Remedies Systems?'

Michael Fruhmann, Director, Directorate Public Procurement Law, Austrian Federal Ministry of Justice

10.45 - 11.15

Coffee

11.15 - 12.45

Panel: Reciprocity or Protectionism - Public Procurement and International Trade

Moderator: Associate Professor Marko Turudić, University of Zagreb

'Issues in International Procurement Trade: A U.S. Perspective'

Professor Christopher R. Yukins, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C.

'From North to South and West to East: The Extra-Territorial Application of Public Procurement Law'

Professor Christopher H. Bovis, University of Hull

'To Admit or Not to Admit: Some Remarks One Year After the Kolin Ruling'

Associate Professor Piotr Bogdanowicz, University of Warsaw

'Foreign Subsidies Regulation – Legal, Economic and Geopolitical Consequences'

Assistant Professor Désirée Klingler, University of St. Gallen

12.45 - 13.45

Lunch

13.45 - 15.15

Panel: Green and Socially Responsible - New Approaches

Moderator: Danijela Antolković, DKOM vice-president

'Socially Responsible Procurement from the European Green Deal to the Clean Industrial Deal' 

Professor Roberto Caranta, University of Turin

'The Green Steering Potential of 'Funding' in Public Procurement'

Professor Sarah Schoenmaekers, University of Maastricht

'Public Procurement with a Purpose: Understanding the Shift Towards Social Responsibility'

Eva Ružić, Assistant, University of Rijeka

15.15 - 15.45

Coffee

15.45 - 17.15

Panel: AI, Data Modernization

Moderator: Danijela Pažur Ivančić, Public Procurement Advisor, E-DA Consulting

'Digit(AI)lising EU Procurement Law: Priorities and Challenges'

Professor Albert Sanchez-Graells, University of Bristol

'The Impact of the European Public Procurement Data - Competition and Efficiency'

Professor Tünde Tátrai, Corvinus University, Budapest

'Digital Transformation in Public Procurement: Current State and Future Directions'

Associate Professor Petra Ferk, New University, Kranj

'A Regulation As the Way Forward'

Associate Professor Pedro Telles, Copenhagen Business School

17.15 - 17.30

Concluding remarks

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