This meeting is devoted to discuss the new activities and the policy guidelines of the new European Journal of Public Procurement Markets including the following articles ():

• Transposition of the EU Public Procurement Directives 2014 in Austria by Bernt Elsner and Ruth Bittner;
• Transposition of the 2014 European Directives on public procurement by France by Kawthar Ben Khelil;
• Transposition of the 2014 European Directives on public procurement by Spain by Jaime Pintos Santiago;
• Transposition of the 2014 European Directives on public procurement by Portugal: woes and expectations by Luis Valadares Tavares;
• The transposition of the 2014 Directives on public procurement into the Italian law: a challenge for a deep reform of the Italian public procurement system by Valentina Guidi;
• Public procurement culture after accession to the EU – The case of a Central European transition country by Tunde Tatrai;
• Centralization vs. Bundling: The Victory of an Italian David against an Italian Goliath by Gustavo Piga;

and two case studies:

• The Amagasaki Pilot Social Impact Bond in Japan- Participation of SMEs in Public Markets by Shinji Hosomi;
• The Art and the Science in Winning Public-Sector e-Procurement Contracts particularly by Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises by Keith White-Hunt, Philip Norman and Charlotte Norman.