The European Public Procurement Network (PPN) is a co-operation network of public procurement expert officials, dedicated to European companies taking part in procurement procedures in other countries of the network than theirs. It involves all EU Member States, EU candidate countries, EEA Members and Switzerland. Other European countries and organizations are also present in the network as observers.

The PPN has two main objectives:

• Promotion of cross-border problem solving in cross-border cases relating to public procurement.
• Strengthening of the application and the enforcement of the procurement rules through mutual exchange of experience, best practice and benchmarking.

Through its yearly conferences, the PPN provides an opportunity for exchanging views and thus facilitates a common understanding and application of the regulatory framework.

The 5th annual PPN conference was held on 26th -27th April 2007 in Warsaw, Poland.

Link to PPN website.