The present book is a revised version of my dissertation that was defended at the European University Institute (EUI, Florence, Italy) in September 2013. My dissertation was a project that bridged the highly specifi c fi eld of procurement damages with that of general EU law, leading ‘Towards an EU law of damages’. As a monograph, it would have been overwhelming; I therefore decided to rework and shorten the manuscript with a focus on public procurement for a specialised audience. The individual chapters were substantially rewritten and updated, taking into account case law up to April 2015. Additionally, I have taken the legislative action in the fi eld of competition law as an opportunity to put forward several recommendations specifi cally geared at the European legislator for a revision of the public procurement damage regime. Although in many ways this book has outgrown the dissertation it is based on, some acknowledgements are due to the same people. I am grateful to Prof. Hans- Wolfgang Micklitz for his supervision and advice, which then and now provides useful guidance time and again. I thank Prof. Giorgio Monti (EUI), Prof. Alexandra (Sacha) Prechal (Court of Justice of the European Union) and Prof. Laurence W. Gormley (University of Groningen and College of Europe) for having been members of the examining board of my thesis and particularly for their very instructive reports. I have picked up many of the comments in the revisions. In addition, I want to thank the two anonymous reviewers and Dr Kai Purnhagen, the editor of this series, for their valuable feedback on the book manuscript.