Peter Dethlefsen
PUBLICONTRA.DK

Curriculum vitae

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

Publications

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)