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Annika López Kasteskog

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Annika López Kasteskog is a member of Baker McKenzie’s International Commercial & Trade Practice Group in Stockholm. She joined Baker McKenzie as an associate in 2023.
Prior to joining the Firm, Annika worked at another firm in Stockholm with a broad focus, thus resulting in her working within several areas of law such as commercial agreements, company law, intellectual property and public procurement. Annika also worked as an inhouse lawyer at a literary agency.

On 1 November 2024, the Swedish Competition Authority has started applying its statement regarding free access to procurement documents. This means that contracting authorities are now, according to the Swedish Competition Authority, expected to make standard contracts such as AB04 and ABT06 available free of charge to tenderers in all public procurement processes.

As of 1 January 2024, the Swedish Competition Authority will have increased authority to supervise public procurements. The powers have been adopted in order to make procurement supervision more effective.
Under the new rules, the Swedish Competition Authority may now make decisions on procurement fines without having to apply for a review of the fine in court. This presupposes, however, that the procurement did not begin before 1 January 2024.