Public procurement: The French Prime Minister receives a report proposing measures to ease the use of various public/private partnerships schemes and their economic assessment (Complex public procurement)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. – Bill amending Ordinance No. 2004-559 of 17 June 2004 on public-private partnerships adopted by the Senate on 4 April 2008 and the National Assembly on 26 June 2008 – Report to the Prime Minister by Mr E. Besson on 27 May 2008: "Better purchasing for better public service: from complex public procurement to public-private partnerships". The evolution of French public procurement law over the last two decades has consisted in particular in a multiplication of new contractual forms, more or less inspired by private law and deriving from the contractual freedom progressively granted to public persons (EC, 28 Jan. 1998, Société Borg Warner, CJEG, 1998, No. 545,