In my master's thesis entitled "Judicial protection in public procurement procedures", I review all three judicial protection procedures regulated by the Legal Protection in Public Procurement Procedures Act. First of all, I comment on the voidability of the public procurement contract and how it differs from the voidability of the contract under the Obligations Code, and continue with the review of violations that may lead to the voidability of the contract. The next major chapter of thesis covers the issues of liability for damages and compensation for damage in public procurement procedures. The main findings of this chapter are that liability in the Legal Protection in Public Procurement Procedures Act is very sparsely regulated, hence most of the content therein is based on case law and legal theory. The greater part of the content is intended to determine which categories of persons are entitled to compensation in public procurement procedures and to what extent each category of persons is entitled. I conclude the chapter by stating that compensation for damages is satisfactorily regulated in the Slovenian legal system, however there are still some open questions where compensation for damage will (presumably) develop further in the future through case law. Judicial protection in public procurement procedures in the Slovenian legal system is completed by the administrative dispute that can be filed against the decisions of the National Review Commission. This is a novelty in Slovenian legislation (the institute will not be used in practice until 2021), although such judicial protection has been established in European countries for a long time. As part of this chapter, the situation as it was before the legalization of the institute of administrative dispute and the manner in which the legislator regulated this institute in the Legal Protection in Public Procurement Procedures Act is presented.
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