MSLV4800 The State and Municipalities as Market Actors – Public Procurement, State Aid, and Corporate Organization Course description

The topic of the course is the regulatory framework intended to ensure that public enterprises and public funds are managed in the most efficient way possible. It primarily deals with the rules on public procurement, which are rules aimed at ensuring the best possible use of resources when entering into public contracts. Another way of rationalising public enterprises is to define them as separate entities. The legal characteristics of such forms of organisation and its consequences will also be covered. The course also deals with the rules that place special limitations on the public sector as a market participant (The EEA Agreements government assistance rules).

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Insight Knowledge

The student has

• knowledge about different forms of organisation and market contracting in the public sector
• understand the goals of public procurement
• in-depth knowledge about the regulation of public procurement in Norway regarding planning, advertising tenders, how to conduct this process and the conclusion of the process and knowledge on the potential consequences of errors
• insight into what the prohibition against public funding entails and legal problems regarding Public sector entering the market in the sense of the EEA Regulations
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Skills

The student is capable of

• identifying and analysing legal issues and consequences relating to restructuring or market contracting processes
• identifying when different parts of the regulations on public procurement apply
• analysing and handling legal issues when advertising tenders, and how to conduct this process, assess the tenders received and award contracts

Competence

The student is capable of

• working independently on practical and legal issues

The topic of the course is the regulatory framework intended to ensure that public enterprises and public funds are managed in the most efficient way possible. It primarily deals with the rules on public procurement, which are rules aimed at ensuring the best possible use of resources when entering into public contracts. Another way of rationalising public enterprises is to define them as separate entities. The legal characteristics of such forms of organisation and its consequences will also be covered. The course also deals with the rules that place special limitations on the public sector as a market participant (The EEA Agreement's government assistance rules).

The teaching methods used are individual study, group work and plenary sessions. An important element of achieving the learning outcomes for this course will be the use of various case studies. Students are expected to be active in the work on these cases and work with the sources of law available in this field. Literature studies will be an important aspect of this work.

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The students will take an individual home exam over 48 hours.

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A grade scale with grades from A to E for pass and F for fail is used.

All answer papers are assessed by an internal examiner. External examiners are used in cases of doubt about whether a pass grade should be awarded and for spot check assessments of approx. 25% of the answer papers. The grades awarded for the answer papers assessed together with an external sensor form the basis for determining the level for awarding the different grades. The internal examiner shall take the external examiner's assessment into consideration in the grading of all the exams.

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