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The reform agenda of public procurement is guided by doctrines developed by the Court of Justice of the European Union which attempt to fuse the underlying principles of public procurement regulation with the fundamental principles enshrined in the EU Treaties. Primary EU law supplements wherever needed the deficiencies of the public procurement Directives. The CJEU’s jurisprudence has been instrumental in developing the policy and the concepts of the public procurement acquis and in providing for flexibility, clarity and certainty to its decentralised application and enforcement. Public procurement represents an instrument for growth and competitiveness for the EU and its Member States.