The representative of the Public Procurement Office participated in the twelfth Subcommittee on Internal Market and Competition, which was held on 24 February 2026 in Brussels.

The Subcommittee on Internal Market and Competition presented to the representatives of the European Commission contributions prepared by the competent state administration bodies on the following topics: 1) Protection and enforcement of intellectual, industrial and commercial property rights; 2) Public procurement; 3) Right to establish a business and freedom to provide services; 4) Banking, insurance and other financial services; 5) Company law, accounting and auditing; 6) Public health and consumer protection; 7) Competition policy.

The representative of the Public Procurement Office, in accordance with his/her competences, informed the European Commission orally and in writing about the latest information regarding:

• Exemptions from the application of the Law on Public Procurement;
• The use of contract award criteria that are not based solely on price and statistical data for 2023, 2024 and 2025, as well as measures taken to increase the use of this type of criteria;
• The status of the electronic public procurement system in Serbia and its further improvement;
• The implementation of the Public Procurement Development Programme in the Republic of Serbia for the period from 2024 to 2028 and the Action Plan for 2025;
• The administrative capacity of the Public Procurement Office;
• Capacity building and organisation of training for stakeholders at all levels, including strengthening institutions, contracting authorities and tenderers;
• Measures to strengthen control mechanisms in public procurement, including monitoring and increasing transparency of the execution phase of public contracts and systematic risk assessment, prioritising controls in sensitive sectors and procedures;
• Monitoring the implementation of the Law on Public Procurement, including conclusions and main results from the latest annual monitoring report;
• Capacities for preventing and combating corruption and conflict of interest at central and local level;
• Planned measures to increase the average number of bids per public procurement procedure and reduce the share of public procurement procedures with only one bid submitted in terms of implementing Sector Budget Support (PAR SBS).

At the meeting itself, the Public Procurement Office presented the latest information regarding the application of mandatory environmental criteria for certain public procurement items, in accordance with the Regulation on the types of goods and services for which contracting authorities are obliged to apply environmental aspects when implementing public procurement procedures, as well as regarding the application of social aspects in public procurement. The latest functionalities of the Public Procurement Portal, which were developed and launched in 2025, were also presented, as well as the dynamics of the adoption of the Action Plan for 2026 for the implementation of the Public Procurement Development Programme in the Republic of Serbia for the period from 2024 to 2028.