Multi-Stakeholders Expert Group on eProcurement (EXEP) - Main contents

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Abbreviation: EXEP

Policy Area: Internal Market

Lead DG: DG Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs

Type: Informal

Scope: Limited

Mission: The group will assist and advise the Member States and the Commission in implementing the provisions of the new public procurement Directives relating to electronic procurement. It will contribute to monitoring the uptake of eProcurement across the EU, sharing best practices and following new developments in the field. It will also help addressing interoperability issues in this area. With a view to further promoting the uptake of end-to-end eProcurement across the EU, including in the post-award phase, EXEP will liaise closely with the European Multi-Stakeholder Forum on eInvoicing (EMSFEI) and with national forums. The group will be responsible for ensuring the coherence between the recommendations arising from the EMSFEI and broader policies on end-to-end eProcurement.

Task: Assist the Commission in relation to the implementation of existing Union legislation, programmes and policies

Contact: -

Publication in RegExp: 02/09/2014

Creating Act: -

Last updated: 03/05/2023

Additional Information

Activity report: 1st meeting 21 October 2014

20141021_exep_minutes.pdf (approx. 80 kb)

Activity report: 2nd meeting 2-3 March 2015

EXEP_minutes_2-3 March 2015.pdf (approx. 141 kb)

Activity report: 3rd meeting 10-11 June 2015

EXEP_minutes_10-11 June 2015.pdf (approx. 102 kb)

Activity report: 4th meeting 6-7 October 2015

EXEP_minutes_6-7 October 2015.pdf (approx. 155 kb)

Activity report: 5th meeting 2-3 February 2016

EXEP_minutes_2-3 February 2016.pdf (approx. 173 kb)

Activity report: 6th meeting 8-9 June 2016

EXEP_minutes_8-9 June.pdf (approx. 32 kb)

Activity report: 7th meeting 24-25 October 2016

EXEP_minutes_24-25 October.pdf (approx. 45 kb)

Activity report: 8th meeting 8-9 March 2017

EXEP_minutes_8-9_March_2017.pdf (approx. 17 kb)

Activity report: 9th meeting 19-20 September 2017

EXEP_minutes_19-20_September_2017_final.pdf (approx. 134 kb)

Selection procedure: Representatives of Member States: It is for the State to decide on who will represent them. To strengthen the link between general public procurement policy issues, such as administrative simplification and modernisation, and the actual implementation of electronic procurement, we invite Member States to send two representatives with different professional profiles. The first representative should ideally work directly on the national public procurement regulation. The second can come from either a public or a private body and should have good knowledge of electronic tendering systems. If one representative comes from a governmental body and the other from the private sector both can be reimbursed, otherwise only one can be reimbursed.

Selection procedure: NGOs (eSENS, CEN/BII): This three NGOs were selected to become a member because in the subgroup of interoperability technical know how is needed. While CEN/BII is workshop under the umbrella of the standardisation body CEN, eSENS, a large scale pilot funded by the Commission, is as well dealing with interoperability in the area of eProcurement between MS.

Selection procedure: Associations: EUPLAT and openPEPPOL were selected because they are the only European wide associations dealing with eTendering. BUSINESSEUROPE and European Construction Industry Federation were selected because they are European wide associations representing a very large numbers of business users.

Selection procedure: Interest group: The new Public Procurement Directive 2014/24/EC allows that a Central Purchasing Body (CPB) can buy for other contracting authorities. CPBs are an important stakeholder in public procurement and a key player to the transition to e-procurement. The national CPBs have set up an informal network. It is therefore proposed to appoint a representative of the CPB network to represent the views and interests of CPBs.

Rules of procedure: RoP

EXEP_Standard-rules-of-procedure-for-expert-groups_v0.2.pdf (approx. 358 kb)

Subgroups

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