Peter Dethlefsen, born Oct 1946
| August 2006- | Establishes the consultancy Publicontra Aps |
- Services to tenderers and contracting authorities on - Counselling at specific calls for tender - Policies for competitive publicly financed productionandPFI - Contributor to Udbudsportalen, a government platform for best practices at public procurement. |
February 1995-August 2006 August 1999-June 2002 |
Chief special adviser at the Danish Competition Authority (DCA) Responsible for the diploma education on(Public/private Partnership at the Danish School of Public administration |
-Chairman working party on Dialogue with the IT industry (1995-96) -Chairman project group on IT-contracts (1997) -Writes government guidelines for Public Procurement rules: 1998-version (basically paper) 2003-version (internet-based) -Contributions to the 2006-version (revised to cover the new EC Procurement rules) -Individual cases on breach of the Procurement rules (1995-2006) -Individual cases on breach of the Danish competition Act (2001) -Policy projects on competition in the area of welfare services (2000 and 2002) -Puts into writing: Proposal for Act on Complaints Board on Public Procurement (2000) Proposal for Act on below-threshold-works-contracts (2001) Proposal for a revision of 2001-Act (2005) -Represents the DCA in the secretariat of the Advisory Body on Outsourcing under the Ministry of Finance (2003-06) |
February 1993-January 1995 |
Legal adviser at the Department of Industry (DoI) |
-Responsible for the contact on political issues between DoI and the Danish Patent and Trademark Office -Chairman cross-ministerial Working Party on the exploitation of patents from research institutions |
October1990-February1993 |
Head of section at the Danish Patent and Trademark Office |
-Patents -Design -Trademarks |
Sept.1986- October 1990 |
Absence of leave Accompanying spouse,Oslo and London. (My wife with the Norwegian Foreign Office) |
-Paintings, some solo exhibitions -writes a Survey of Trends in the International Industrial Environment -Studies at the University of London -Occasional adviser on Small Business Mergers & Acquisitions |
March 1985- September1986 |
Legal adviser on European (EC) issues at the Department of Industry (DoI) |
-Internal coordination and communication of DoI’s participation in Brussels Working Parties |
September1984- March 1985 |
Head of section at DoI |
-Industrial Policies |
Sept 1981- September1984 |
Industrial Counsellor at the Danish Permanent EC-Representation, Brussels |
-Regional Policies -Trade Policy -Coal and Steel Treaty -State Aid -Telecom law harmonisation - Innovation Policy |
February1977-Sept. 1981 |
Maritime Law, DoI |
-Legislation -Nordic, EC, OECD and UNCTAD-negotiations |
August 1972-February 1977 |
Jurist at Statsanstalten, state-owned life insurance company |
-Tax rules for pension schemes |
| April 2007 | “Public Services in EU- Between State Aid and Public Procurement Rules”, Public Procurement Law Review, Issue 3 2007 (Thomson, Sweet Maxwell) |
2006/07 |
Articles on Udbudsportalen.dk on eg. Companies owned by local authorities in Denmark and in other Nordic countries; and on the ECJ's Asemfo-case |
June 2006 Aug2005 |
A folder for the DCA “Introduction to the Procurement Rules” DCA-guidelines on the 2005-Tilbudslov on below-threshold-works-contracts. |
1997-2006 |
Comprehensive DCA-guidelines on public procurement (internet and paper versions) |
2002 |
Together with Claus Kaare Pedersen: “Tilbudsloven – bygge og anlæg” (Thomson). Commenting the 2001 Act on below-threshold-works-contracts. |
1994 |
Report from the working party on the exploitation of patents from research institutions, including a proposal for an Act |
1993 |
Article on the “supplementary protection certificate” (prolonging the effect of patent protection of medical products), in Nordisk Immateriellt Rätsskyd (Nordic paper on intellectual property protection) |