On 23 January, a General Meeting of the Public Procurement Law Association was held. During the Meeting, the authorities of the Association were elected, plans for action in 2019 were discussed, and a summary was made of the Association’s activities in 2018.

Key events in 2018 include:

• participation of the Association’s representatives Anna Szymańska and Wojciech Hartung in a meeting of the working group set up by the European Commission to bring together members of first instance appeal bodies in EU Member States. The discussion during the meeting centred on a report on the "Functioning of legal remedies in EU countries. Key findings” drawn up by the Association;
• inclusion of proposals contained in the report on the "Functioning of legal remedies in EU countries. Key findings” in the “Concept of the new Public Procurement Law” published by the Ministry of Enterprise and Technology and the Public Procurement Office
• preparation of an analysis of selected issues in the field of legal remedies that should be included in Polish law in order to ensure that the legal remedies system in Poland works efficiently in line with Remedies Directives’ requirements;
• position paper submitted by the Management on 27 July 2018 to the Ministry of Enterprise and Technology and the Public Procurement Office containing reservations about selected solutions contained in the “Concept of the new Public Procurement Law”;
• international conference organised by the Association on 12 June 2018 in Warsaw on “Competition law and public procurements – two sides of the same coin”. The conference was attended by representatives of state institutions, public procurement law and competition law experts and practitioners from both Poland and abroad, and was reported in the press;
• results of a survey on legal remedies available to economic operators in contract award procedures were published on the Association’s website. The survey indicates the most pressing problems faced by economic operators under current legislation;
• work initiated by the Management Board on the Association’s next initiative concerning the manner of implementing and interpreting selected grounds for exclusion from contract award procedures in EU and EFTA countries.