Electronic Person as a Public Procurement Entity

It is now already possible to distinguish the phenomenon of electronicisation of the public procurement system, which must at the same time have its own, separately defined, existence in legal reality. The legal reality of the electronicisation of public procurement now focuses, in terms of subjective construct, on the categories of the natural person, juridical person and organisational unit without legal personality, whereas the legal reality of electronicised public procurement focuses in a very similar way on the natural person, the group of natural persons and the organisational entity. In the future, however, the electronicisation of the public procurement system should lead to the extension of the categories of procurement entity towards including an electronic person. The electronic person has recently been granted a legal status in the EU soft law system, but it is only at an early stage of development and therefore needs to be further refined. From a legal point of view, it should also be added that the category of electronic person must always be identified with an agent (electronic agent, smart agent, computer agent), as it turns out to be the most important substrate of the related artificial intelligence.