"We will have to adjust our legislation as well as implement the relevant laws and strengthen institutions implementing them in relation to the existing set of directives and future regulations which are being discussed by the EU," said Tamara Obradovic Mazal, Croatia's negotiator on public procurement and freedom of movement of goods, who headed the national team at a meeting with European Commission officials on Monday at which the process of screening for the area of public procurement was launched.
Croatia is preparing to draw up a new law on public procurement next year, Obradovic Mazal said, adding that the country would have to closely follow how the EU would regulate some aspects of the sector of public procurement, such as electronic auctioning, procurement of weapons, granting of concessions and public-private partnership.
Croatia and the EU have already started the process of screening for the sectors of science and research and education and culture. The screening for market competition will begin on Tuesday.