Creating more space for good public procurement 1. Public value as core objective Public procurement (PP) has increasingly become a compliance-driven, risk-averse, paper-based profession, with legal-dominated processes15. Research also suggests that procurement officers with a legal education background and those who report closely monitoring legal developments tend to underperform7.
UU
Utrecht University
Academic / research · Netherlands
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Utrecht University filed 7 positions between 25 Sept 2025 and 31 Jul 2026, across 4 of the 665 legislative files tracked here, attaching a full position paper 7 times.
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While competitiveness is the red thread running through the current political term, the dimension of ownership retention remains largely absent from the discourse, despite its structural relevance for the EUs economic and social fabric.
This is a response to the solicitation for public comments of the European Commission, relating to the Digital Fairness Act (DFA). Our feedback reflects insights from a Romanian content creator and two research projects hosted in the Netherlands: (i) a VENI research project on the ethics and regulation of online manipulation, funded by the Dutch Research Council and hosted at the University of Amsterdam, which…
To whom it may concern, This is a response to the solicitation for public comments of the European Commission, relating to the fairness check. This response reflects the discussions of a focus group undertaken as part of the course EU Digital Innovation and Regulation in the context of the Masters Programme Law & Technology in Europe at Utrecht University, where social media influencer/creators have been a focal…
Since we discovered that the internet is an excellent vehicle for advertising, many new negative impacts that could potentially harm consumer rights have gradually emerged. My suggestion focuses on the emerging advertising behavior of social media influencers "selling goods" (or "endorsing and promoting products").
We argue that the Digital Fairness Act should place primary legal responsibility for influencer marketing transparency on advertisers rather than social media platforms or influencers themselves. We propose that advertisers, who profit most from influencer marketing, should bear responsibility through contractual transparency clauses and disclosure requirements for promotional content.
Utrecht University (UU) welcomes the ORIS and we offer our expertise in the following main themes: Ocean change: The impact of climate change on the ocean and resulting risks for humanity, investigate ocean-based solutions to climate change Ocean health: Marine anthropogenic impacts; protect and restore ecosystems and biodiversity; Ocean law & governance: (inter-)national legal frameworks to contribute to the…
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