Dr Albert Sanchez-Graells cited in European Scrutiny Commission report

Press release issued: 1 February 2018

Evidence submitted by Dr Albert Sanchez-Graells has been heavily cited in a recent House of Commons report considered by the European Scrutiny Committee.

A series of arguments and calculations made within evidence submitted by Dr Albert Sanchez-Graells were listed in a recent House of Commons report, which concerned implications for cross-border UK-EU procurement in the context of the UK’s withdrawal from the EU.

Dr Sanchez-Graells’ evidence detailed the contribution EU public procurement rules make to the facilitation of trade services between the UK and the rest of the EU, as well as discussing the potential barriers to trade that could arise post-Brexit.

In a section titled ‘Brexit implications for UK-EU procurement’ the House of Commons report states that “[p]ossibly the most substantive account to date of the implications of Brexit for UK-EU procurement, from an economic and trade, as well as a purely legal, perspective, has been produced by Dr Albert Sanchez-Graells (Bristol University)”.

To read Dr Sanchez-Graells’ written evidence in full online please click here.

Further information

Dr Albert Sanchez Graells is a Reader in Economic Law at the University of Bristol Law School. He is a specialist in European economic law, with a main focus on competition law and public procurement. He is also interested in general issues of sector regulation and, more broadly, in the rules supporting the development and expansion of the European Union's internal market. He takes a law and economics approach to his research and is particularly keen on the analysis of the systems of incentives and enforcement mechanisms that law creates or facilitates.

For further information about legal news, events and research related to Brexit please visit the Law School’s Brexit Centre website.