Professor Martin Trybus was recently made a Visiting Professor at the University of Utrecht in The Netherlands involved both with the University of Urecht Centre for Public Procurement (UUCePP) and the Utecht Centre for Regulation and Enforcement in Europe (RENFORCE).
On 29 and 30 November 2021 he participated in events organised jointly by these two centres. On 29 November 2021 the first meeting of the new Conversation Series was held. It takes EU-Value based Regulation and Enforcement as its lead theme and will delve into the conceptual, constitutional and theoretical foundations thereof. The series will focus on the following questions:
- What are the relevant standards, principles and procedures in different areas of law for the shaping of ‘good’ regulation and enforcement in Europe and beyond?
- How such relevance is determined?
- How are and can these standards, principles and procedures be conceptualised and operationalised?
- How can they be used as yardsticks for the assessment of e.g. compliance, legitimacy and/or effectiveness and by what methodological/theoretical approaches this is or could be done?
- What are the relevant standards, principles and procedures in different areas of law for the shaping of ‘good’ regulation and enforcement in Europe and beyond?
- How such relevance is determined?
- How are and can these standards, principles and procedures be conceptualised and operationalised?
- How can they be used as yardsticks for the assessment of e.g. compliance, legitimacy and/or effectiveness and by what methodological/theoretical approaches this is or could be done?
- What are the relevant standards, principles and procedures in different areas of law for the shaping of ‘good’ regulation and enforcement in Europe and beyond?
- How such relevance is determined?
- How are and can these standards, principles and procedures be conceptualised and operationalised?
- How can they be used as yardsticks for the assessment of e.g. compliance, legitimacy and/or effectiveness and by what methodological/theoretical approaches this is or could be done?
The first conversation kicked off with pitches by three RENFORCE colleagues, addressing specifically the relevance and meaning of the value of respect for – national/public - security in regulation and enforcement approaches in different areas of EU law, including migration, public procurement and criminal law. Salvo Nicolosi talked about ‘From protection to security: controversial issues at the EU borders’, Nathan Meershoek on ‘EU Military procurement regulation vs global security politics’ and Gavin Robinson on ‘Security-related considerations in the CJEU case law in the framework of communications data retention’. After these pitches, Professor Trybus and his colleague Professor Roberto Caranta (University of Turin) provided comments and reflections on the topic and the pitches and started the discussion.
On 30 November 2021 Professor Trybus contributed as a discussant for two PhD papers at the first UUCePP PhD forum in which 12 PhD students from 7 countries presented papers based on their research projects and received feedback from a number of senior academics from Utrecht and other universities. The day-long event as well as the conversation described above had to be moved online at short notice due to the worsening Covid situation in The Netherlands.