4 Amendments of Andreas SCHWAB related to 2011/2115(INI)
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Regrets that the public procurement procedures of our principal partners are not as open as those of the European Union; supports the Commission’s work to revise EU legislation on public procurement, in particular the introduction of legislation clarifying the provisionits review of the measures needed to ensure the fairness onf access by third-country businesses to European public procurement procedures, both to ensure that the conditions governing theseoth for EU businesses to procurement procedures in third countries and for third-country businesses to European public procurement procedures are fair, and to strengthen the EU’s position when negotiating access for European businesses to third-country public procurement procedures; stresses, however, that these measures must take such a form that they do not lead to inappropriate new partitionings of the market, which in turn might have negative repercussions on European industry and its global trade relations;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Recommends looking into regulatory means of ensuring that public procurement contracts for projects funded with EU subsidies may not be awarded to state-owned undertakings from third countries which have signed neither the GPA nor bilateral mutual market opening agreements, or alternatively that in such cases the EU may demand repayment of the subsidies;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses thein particular the major importance of developing trade relations between the European Union and China; calls, however, on the Commission to maintain a strong stance in negotiations with China on its participation insignature of the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA), in order to secure the equal opening of Chinese procurement procedures and equal treatment of European businesses;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on the Commission to intensify still further its cooperation with the USA in the context of the Transatlantic Business Dialogue and of the Transatlantic Economic Council, in order to achieve the stated aim of rendering transatlantic trade as barrier-free as possible;