On The Utilities Directive Of EEC And Its Enlightenment To The Establishing Of Legislations Concerned In Our Country

The Utilities Directive of EEC is one of the important parts of thelegal system of EEC government purchase. Together with the former TheWorks Directive,The Supplies Directive and The Services Directive(thethree directives were combined into one directive "Public ProcurementDirective" in 2004), The Utilities Directive EEC Coordinating theProcurement Procedures of Entities Operating in the Water, Energy,Transport and Telecommunication Sectors have jointly standardized,coordinated and directed the public utilities purchases of all EEC membernations, and provided strong legal safeguard to the development of EECgovernment purchase as well as to the centralization both in politics andin economics, and the trade liberalization among European Union. Thispaper analyses the contents, characters and principles of The UtilitiesDirective and makes careful comparison with the amended one, so as toexplore the ways and experiences of legal system construction of EECutilities purchase. Using The Utilities Directive for reference, the paperdiscusses the establishing of the legislation of government purchases andexplores the possibility of the building of the legislation alone of thepublic utilities purchase so as to strengthen and standardize thegovernment purchase action and purchase management in our country.