This article presents the problems of economic policies, which translate into the objectives and principles of the public procurement system, as well as their connection and interdependence with the objectives of public procurement law. The considerations indicate the relation of objectives as values serving the implementation of specific economic policies and their translation into the principles of the public procurement system and their inclusion in the normative part of the system of public procurement law. EU economic policies and public procurement objectives in the EU law, as well as the need to implement them into national law, have been analysed. The deliberations contain de lege ferenda postulates and are addressed to the legislator preparing a new law on public procurement.