Criminal integrity as a condition for participation in public procurement law

Criminal integrity as a condition for participation in public procurement law Abstract This rigorous thesis deals with the issue of criminal integrity as a condition for participation imposed on entities taking part in procurement procedures within the public procurement process. The primary purpose of this thesis is to conduct an in-depth analysis of the concept of the absence of a criminal record in the context of public procurement, to identify contentious or unclear aspects of the relevant issues within the limits of Czech and Slovak legislation, and to present a method of remedying having a criminal record through the mechanism of self-cleaning. The first chapter is rather general in nature and serves primarily to define the basic terms and aspects of the public procurement law that are further used in the subsequent parts of the thesis. It introduces the meaning and purpose of the legal regulation, the term of public procurement, definitions of contracting authorities and suppliers, as well as the individual public procurement regimes together with the common types of procurement procedures. The second chapter deals with the issue of the absence of a criminal record itself - both in a broader and narrower sense. In the broader sense, a brief interpretation of the concept of criminal integrity is...