Criteria for the Proper Management of Public Property and the Control of Public Procurement

The aim of the chapter is to indicate how the criteria of proper management of public property affect the control over granting public contracts and the consequences of their non-application. This chapter deals with the control of public procurement in the European Union, which is directly related to the issue of proper management of public property. The entity granting the public contract should take into account criteria such as legality, cost efficiency, purposefulness, and reliability. The entire area of exercising the property rights of the state and other public and legal entities by public authorities is subject to control in these areas. It should be pointed out that these should be directives for the authority that grants the contract to act in the management of public property in the public interest. Moreover, it should be stressed that proper management of public property is carried out by a number of provisions of public economic law, which set out best practices for public authorities in this area and constitute a reference point for control and supervision activities undertaken with respect to appropriate bodies possessing public property. The criteria indicated have an impact on savings in the spending of financial resources, which are the responsibility of the public sector in a broad sense, and on the creation of foundations for the use of economic shares by entrepreneurs on the public market. In the chapter, a research formal-dogmatic method and a functional method of analysis were applied.