Our Scholars 2024 – Julianna Batta

Your name, current occupation and country of work?
My name is Julianna Batta and I work as an international legal advisor in Budapest, at the Department for Sustainability and International Relations of the Public Procurement Authority of Hungary. My tasks range from answering inquiries to international correspondence, the monitoring of ECJ case law, the collection of international best practices, the preparation of legal translations and the drafting of guidelines.

How do you use European law in your work?
I use European law regularly when monitoring the implementation status of the related EU directives and regulation, especially in the field of green public procurement. Familiarity with the precise public procurement terminology in compliance with the language of the EU acquis is indispensable for me. The knowledge of the theoretic legal background is also essential when answering/sending out public procurement related inquiries to other Member State experts or fellow public procurement institutions.

How did you benefit from the scholarship and the knowledge gained?
The comprehensive overview of EU public procurement provided by the course gives me confidence and a solid background during everyday work, especially upon assessing practical cases of public procurement. I really appreciated the opportunity that the scholarship awarded by ERA enabled me to participate at the Summer Course on European Public Procurement Law.

What particularly of the event did impress you the most?
First, let me underline the outstanding expertise of the speakers: I was impressed by the high level of the presentations and found it really useful that also areas interlinked with public procurement were covered by the course agenda, like competition law issues.
I especially liked that the course was enriched with court cases and simulation exercises: the explanation of the speakers revealed the problem areas and the discussion with other participants provided insight to the various areas of public procurement practice. The social events and the city tour were great for networking and allowed us to get to know each other a bit.
All in all, I think that the course programme included the relevant key topics and I am convinced that all participants could benefit from this experience despite having the most diverse professional background.