Review article
https://doi.org/10.3935/zpfz.76.4.5
In-house Procurement in Croatian Public Procurement Law
Stanka Pejaković
; Financial Agency, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The subject of analysis of this paper is the concept, emergence and development of the in-house doctrine in the operations of public sector entities through the case-law of the European Court of Justice (ECJ), codified by the General Directive on Public Procurement, and transposed into the law of the Republic of Croatia by the Public Procurement Act. The codification is the result of the reception of the ECJ case law, which has achieved an acceptable level of legal certainty. However, due to the abstract nature of the concept itself, the standardized conditions, and the significant expansion of the applicability of the in-house exemption, there are certain ambiguities that cause errors in practice. This requires an analysis of the risks arising from the application of the in-house doctrine and the further development of the in-house exemption, both at the EU level and in the Republic of Croatia.
Keywords
public procurement; public sector; in-house doctrine; outsourcing; exemption
Hrčak ID:
351665
URI
Publication date:
30.9.2026.
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