Of the EUR 2,000 billion in annual public procurement, EUR 600 billion is covered by the EU procurement legislation under discussion.

Omissions

• The total EU public procurement market is currently estimated by the European Commission at around €2.6 trillion (15% of EU GDP), higher than the €2 trillion cited by the MEP; older Commission factsheets cited 'more than €1.9 trillion', so the €2 trillion figure is an outdated but historically used approximation.
• The value covered by EU procurement rules is given by the Commission as an average annual €616 billion (about a quarter of total expenditure), so the MEP's rounded €600 billion slightly understates the precise figure.
• No primary source precisely matching the combination '€2,000 billion total / €600 billion covered' was found; the two figures are each corroborated separately by Commission sources.

Sources

• PrimaryEuropean Commission — Commission publishes evaluation of EU Public Procurement Directives (Single Market Economy news)EU procurement rules apply to as much as a quarter of this expenditure, with an average annual value of €616 billion, 3 times the size of the EU ...
• PrimaryEuropean Commission — Public procurement (Single Market Economy)Every year, over 250 000 public authorities in the EU spend around €2.6 trillion, or 15% of EU GDP, on services, works and supplies. On 9 September 2026, the European Commission adopted its proposal for a Public Procurement Act to simplify and modernise EU public procurement rules.
• PrimaryEuropean Commission — European Semester thematic factsheet: Public ProcurementEvery year public authorities in the EU spend around 14% of GDP on public procurement. This amounts to more than EUR 1.9 trillion.
• SecondaryPolitico — EU seeks to transform procurement into €600B driver of industryPublic procurement represents up to 15 percent of the EU's GDP — or around €2.5 trillion a year. Of that, some €600 billion is governed by EU ...