call purchase | long call | seller's call

bulk buying | bulk purchasing

impulse buying | unplanned buying

applying procurement | purchase | apply procurement | order goods and equipment

buying manager | procurement manager | purchasing administrator | purchasing manager

decide and agree on tourist-related products | negotiate purchases for tourism experience | negotiate tourism experience purchases | negotiate tourist experience purchases

buying group [ purchasing association ]

·eCommerce for business: 33% of SMEs should conduct online purchases/salesby 2015 (Baseline: During 2008, 24% and 12% of enterprises was, respectively, purchasing/selling electronically, for an amount equal to or greater than 1% of the turnover/total purchases.

“central purchasing body” means a contracting authority providing centralised purchasing activities and, where applicable, ancillary purchasing activities.

17. Considers that the Energy Union entails negotiating with one voice with third countries; calls on the Commission to analyse the appropriateness and potential structure of a voluntary collective purchasing mechanism and its impact on the functioning of the internal gas market, the undertakings affected and its contribution to ensuring security of gas supply; notes that since there are several models of collective purchasing mechanisms, further work needs to be done to determine the best market-based model applicable for EU regions and suppliers concerned and for the conditions under which a voluntary collective purchasing mechanism ...[+++]could be launched; considers that the coordination of positions and the collective purchasing of gas should start at regional level; recommends, in the interim, that the Commission and the Energy Community Secretariat support those Member States and Energy Community Contracting Parties, respectively, that wish to negotiate energy contracts on a voluntary basis, in compliance with the EU internal market acquis and with EU competition and World Trade Organisation rules, and provide for protection of commercially sensitive information; underlines that energy contracts must be based upon market prices and competition;

Member States may also provide that contracting entities may acquire works, supplies and services by using contracts awarded by a central purchasing body, by using dynamic purchasing systems operated by a central purchasing body or by using a framework agreement concluded by a central purchasing body offering the centralised purchasing activity referred to in point (b) of point (10) of Article 2.