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37 Amendments of Olle LUDVIGSSON related to 2011/0438(COD)

Amendment 83 #
Proposal for a directive
Citation 1
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Article 14, Article 45(2), Article 53(1), Article 62 and Article 114 as well as Protocol 26 thereof,
2012/06/20
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 87 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 2
(2) Public procurement plays a key role in the Europe 2020 strategy as one of the market-based instruments to be used to achieve a smart, sustainable and inclusive growth while ensuring the most efficient use of public funds. For that purpose, the current public procurement rules adopted pursuant to Directive 2004/17/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 coordinating the procurement procedures of entities operating in the water, energy, transport and postal services sectors and Directive 2004/18/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 on the coordination of procedures for the award of public works contracts, public supply contracts and public service contracts have to be revised and modernised in order to increase the efficiency of public spending,enable procurers to make better use of public procurement in support of sustainable development compliance with social and labour rights and other common societal goals and in order thereby to increase the efficiency of public spending, guaranteeing the best possible results in terms of cost effectiveness and facilitating in particular the participation of small and medium- sized enterprises in public procurement and to enable procurers to make better use of public procurement in support of common societal goals. There is also a need to simplify Union rules on public procurement, in particular as regards the method used to achieve the sustainability objectives which should be part and parcel of public procurement policy and clarify basic notions and concepts to ensure better legal certainty and to incorporate certain aspects of related well-established case-law of the Court of Justice of the European Union.
2012/06/20
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 120 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 a (new)
This Directive is without prejudice to the right of public authorities at all levels to decide whether, how, and to what extent they want to perform public functions themselves. Public authorities may perform public interest tasks using their own resources, without being obliged to call on outside economic operators. They may do so in cooperation with other public authorities.
2012/06/20
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 124 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Contracts for social and other specific services listed in Annex XVI are exclusively regulated by articles 74-76 in this Directive.
2012/06/20
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 130 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – point e
(e) employment contracts or collective agreements which contributes to the improvement of conditions of work and employment;
2012/06/20
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 132 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
A contract awarded by a contracting authority to another legal person shall fall outside the scope of this Directive where the following cumulative conditions are fulfilled:Article 11 deleted Relations between public authorities
2012/06/20
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 133 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point a
(a) the contracting authority exercises over the legal person concerned a control which is similar to that which it exercises over its own departments.deleted
2012/06/20
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 134 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point b
(b) at least 90 % of the activities of that legal person are carried out for the controlling contracting authority or for other legal persons controlled by that contracting authority;deleted
2012/06/20
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 138 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point c
(c) there is no private participation in the controlled legal person.deleted
2012/06/20
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 141 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
A contracting authority shall be deemed to exercise over a legal person a control similar to that which it exercises over its own departments within the meaning of point (a) of the first subparagraph where it exercises a decisive influence over both strategic objectives and significant decisions of the controlled legal person.deleted
2012/06/20
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 144 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 11 – paragraph 2
2. Paragraph 1 also applies where a controlled entity which is a contracting authority awards a contract to its controlling entity, or to another legal person controlled by the same contracting authority, provided that there is no private participation in the legal person being awarded the public contract.deleted
2012/06/20
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 148 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 11 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part
A contracting authority, which does not exercise over a legal person control within the meaning of paragraph 1, may nevertheless award a public contract without applying this Directive to a legal person which it controls jointly with other contracting authorities, where the following conditions are fulfilled:deleted
2012/06/20
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 152 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 11 – paragraph 3 - subparagraph 1 – point a
(a) the contracting authorities exercise jointly over the legal person a control which is similar to that which they exercise over their own departments; (a) the contracting authorities exercise jointly over the legal person a controldeleted
2012/06/20
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 154 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 11 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point b
(b) at least 90 % of the activities of that legal person are carried out for the controlling contracting authorities or other legal persons controlled by the same contracting authorities;deleted
2012/06/20
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 157 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 11 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point c
(c) there is no private participation in the controlled legal person.deleted
2012/06/20
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 162 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 11 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2 – introductory part
For the purposes of point (a), contracting authorities shall be deemed to jointly control a legal person where the following cumulative conditions are fulfilled:deleted
2012/06/20
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 165 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 11 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2 – point a
(a) the decision-making bodies of the controlled legal person are composed of representatives of all participating contracting authorities;deleted
2012/06/20
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 169 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 11 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2 – point b
(b) those contracting authorities are able to jointly exert decisive influence over the strategic objectives and significant decisions of the controlled legal person;deleted
2012/06/20
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 172 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 11 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2 – point c
(c) the controlled legal person does not pursue any interests which are distinct from that of the public authorities affiliated to it;deleted
2012/06/20
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 176 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 11 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2 – point d
(d) the controlled legal person does not draw any gains other than the reimbursement of actual costs from the public contracts with the contracting authorities.deleted
2012/06/20
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 178 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 11 – paragraph 4 – introductory part
4. An agreement concluded between two or more contracting authorities shall not be deemed to be a public contract within the meaning of Article 2(6) of this Directive where the following cumulative conditions are fulfilled:deleted
2012/06/20
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 180 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 11 – paragraph 4 – point a
(a) the agreement establishes a genuine cooperation between the participating contracting authorities aimed at carrying out jointly their public service tasks and involving mutual rights and obligations of the parties;deleted
2012/06/20
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 183 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 11 – paragraph 4 – point b
(b) the agreement is governed only by considerations relating to the public interest;deleted
2012/06/20
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 184 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 11 – paragraph 4 – point c
(c) the participating contracting authorities do not perform on the open market more than 10 % in terms of turnover of the activities which are relevant in the context of the agreement;deleted
2012/06/20
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 187 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 11 – paragraph 4 – point d
(d) the agreement does not involve financial transfers between the participating contracting authorities, other than those corresponding to the reimbursement of actual costs of the works, services or supplies;deleted
2012/06/20
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 188 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 11 – paragraph 4 – point e
(e) there is no private participation in any of the contracting authorities involvdeleted.
2012/06/20
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 191 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 11 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 1
The absence of private participation referred to in paragraphs 1 to 4 shall be verified at the time of the award of the contract or of the conclusion of the agreement.deleted
2012/06/20
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 193 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 11 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 2
The exclusions provided for in paragraphs 1 to 4 shall cease to apply from the moment any private participation takes place, with the effect that ongoing contracts need to be opened to competition through regular procurement procedures.deleted
2012/06/20
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 201 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 15 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Public procurement is to be used to achieve a smart, sustainable and inclusive growth and to support common societal goals and to provide goods and services of high quality. It is the right of public authorities at all levels to decide how they want to provide commissioning and organise their services.
2012/06/20
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 204 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 15 – paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Economic operators shall apply obligations relating to social and employment protection and the working conditions which apply in the place where the work, service or supply is to be performed as set out by national legislation and/or collective agreements or international labour law provisions listed in Annex XI and in particular ILO Convention 94.
2012/06/20
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 217 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 21 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Member States that have whistle- blower protection for public employees to combat corruption and other breaches of civil law and/or crimes (within the public sector) may request that an equivalent protection is given to an employee employed by the economic operator, if the economic operator performs publically funded services
2012/06/20
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 254 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 41 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point a
(a) the requirements for the label only concern characteristics which are linked to the subject-matter of the contract or the production of the subject-matter of the contract and are appropriate to define characteristics of the works, supplies or services that are the subject-matter of the contract;
2012/06/20
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 298 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 66 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point a
(a) the most socially, environmentally and economically advantageous tender;
2012/06/20
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 303 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 66 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
2. The most economically, socially and environmentally advantageous tender referred to in point (a) of paragraph 1 from the point of view of the contracting authority shall be identified on the basis of criteria linked to the subject-matter of the public contract in question. Those criteria shall include, in addition to the price or costs referred to in point (b) of paragraph 1, other criteria linked to the subject-matter or the production of the subject-matter of the public contract in question, such as:
2012/06/20
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 307 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 66 – paragraph 2 – point b
(b) for service contracts and contracts involving the design of works, the organisation, qualification and experience of the staff assigned to performing the contract in question as well as the capacities, abilities and professional conduct of any subcontractor may be taken into consideration, with the consequence that, following the award of the contract, such staff may only be replaced and further subcontracting will only be permitted with the consent of the contracting authority, which must verify that replacements or further subcontracting ensure equivalent organisation and quality;
2012/06/20
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 309 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 66 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 1
In the case referred to in point (a) of paragraph 1 the contracting authority shall specify, in the contract notice, in the invitation to confirm interest, in the procurement documents or, in the case of a competitive dialogue, in the descriptive document, the relative weighting which it gives to each of the criteria chosen to determine the most economically, socially and environmentally advantageous tender.
2012/06/20
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 339 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 70 a (new)
Article 70 a Obligations relating to taxes, environmental protection, employment protection provisions and working conditions A contracting authority may state in the contract documents, or be obliged by a Member State so to state, the body or bodies from which a candidate or tenderer may obtain the appropriate information on the obligations relating to taxes, to environmental protection, to the employment protection provisions and to the working conditions which are normally 17 applied in the place where the works are to be carried out or services are to be provided and which shall be applicable to the works carried out on site or to the services provided during the performance of the contract. 2. A contracting authority which supplies the information referred to in paragraph 1 shall request the tenderers or candidates in the contract award procedure to indicate that they have taken account, when drawing up their tender, of the obligations relating to employment protection provisions and the working conditions which are normally applied in the place where the works are to be carried out or the service is to be provided. 3. Member States that have whistle-blower protection for public employee (within the public sector) may request that an equivalent protection is giving to employee employed by the economic operator, if the economic operator performs public funded services.
2012/06/20
Committee: EMPL