In the present master’s thesis, I examined a new – more uniform and more flexible – legislation governing the grant of concessions, which is covered by Directive 2014/23/EU on the award of concession contracts. Its main purpose is to ensure that all economic operators have an equal footing in the awarding of integrated business transactions and protracted legal relationships with the public sector. In Slovenia, the field of concessions as the framework law is currently governed by the Public-Private Partnership Act (ZJZP), which was adopted in 2006. Its application is hampered by its noncompliance with the established legal terminology, which nomotechnically makes it a very deficient regulation. In addition, the applicable Public-Private Partnership Act does not comply with the new Directive in certain segments, which should have been transposed into the Slovenian legal order by 18 April 2016. Thus, the main objective of the new Act on Awarding Concessions, which is currently under preparation, is the unification of the rules on the awarding of concessions. The delayed transposition of the Directive raises the question as to which provisions should be applied over the period until the new law enters into force. When examining two examples of the awarding of concession, I noted that the procedure was carried out primarily on the basis of the provisions of the Public-Private Partnership Act, as well as the provisions of the Services of General Economic Interest Act (ZGJS) and, consequently, it appeared to be incompatible with certain parts of the Directive. Only in the case of one of the concessions under review, the procedure was carried out in accordance with the provisions of the new Public Procurement Act (ZJN-3) to a considerable extent, which was, when applied mutatis mutandis, in line with Directive 2014/23/EU. The latter forms the same package of measures as the directives that led to the adoption of the amended Public Procurement Act. The inconsistency of the applicable Slovenian legislation with the European Directive causes the concession providers certain uncertainties in the scope of which provisions should be applied in a particular case of awarding the concession, which contributes to a fairly different application of the provisions in practice.
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