At the meeting AmCham presented its position paper Proposals for the improvement of the implementation of the Public Procurement Act. Participants discussed ways to improve the Electronic Public Procurement Classifieds of the Republic of Croatia (EOJN RH).

Representatives of AmCham pointed out that in the time since the position paper was published, certain positive progress has been made in terms of automatic withdrawal of mandatory (repetitive) data during application to the public procurement tender.

AmCham’s proposals include requirement to publish general acts on simple procurement and simple procurement procedures themselves on the EOJN RH website, so that they may be searched and downloaded in one place, as well as be used in a more efficient manner, The Official Gazette should also include prior consultation in its subscriptions and a search engine.

Mr. Graljuk and Mr. Popović welcomed AmCham's proposals and stated that the European Commission Regulation “eForms” is an EU legislative open standard for publishing public procurement data. They are standard forms used by public buyers to publish notices on Tenders Electronic Daily—an online portal for public procurement notices from across the EU. The Regulation should be transposed no later than October 2023, which will lead to changes in the Electronic Classifieds.

In accordance with the decisions of the Ministry of the Economy and Sustainable Development, AmCham and the Official Gazette will continue cooperation on the issue of proposals for upgrading and improving the EOJN RH system.