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5.2.4. Sub-national PPP Units
A number of 
Länder
have also established their own dedicated PPP units to support
government organisations to procure and manage public-private partnerships projects.
Beginning with North-Rhine Westphalia which created a PPP Task Force in 2001, many
other 
Länder
followed in 2004 and 2005. The structures and competencies of these centres
are very heterogeneous, raising calls by the federal government for a more homogeneous
approach. A number of 
Länder
have not established dedicated PPP units to date. A federal
PPP network (
Föderales PPP Netzwerk
) exists between the federal government, 
Länder
and
municipalities help to facilitate reciprocal knowledge transfers vertically between different
levels of government and horizontally between 
Länder
. The implementation of the
recommendations that are worked out in this way occurs on a voluntary basis.
5.2.5. Legal framework
The PPP Acceleration Act (2005) sets the general legal, financial and technical framework
for public-private partnership in Germany. The act is a framework law which partly
transposed EU procurement directive 2004/18 into German national law. The Act came into
force in September 2005 and led to changes in a number of German laws – including those for
procurement, tax, public road fees, budget and investment – to eliminate impediments
related to PPPs. A number of policy goals were also outlined in the explanatory statement for
the Act, including the provision of central guidance through manuals and standardised
Box 13.
PPP-Policy Unit in the Budget Division, Tasks
●
Development of core PPP policy issues in Germany 
●
Budgetary project auditing for departmental budget divisions
●
Supervision of Partnership Germany
●
Mandates on PPP groundwork assignments
●
Deal with international aspects of PPP (e.g. input on PPP in international organisations,
PPP development partnership with foreign countries, bi-national PPP projects, foreign
PPP projects for domestic contractors). 

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contracts and the establishment of centres of excellence. German procurement law is based
on European procurement directives. To support the development of public-private