8 Amendments of Yannick JADOT related to 2009/2175(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Point 1
Point 1
1. Points out that the Internal Market and international markets are increasingly interlinked; considers, in this context, that legislators in the EU Internal Market and EU negotiators in the field of international trade should always be seeking to promote EU values, such as transparency, a principled stance against corruption and the advancement of social and human rights, in procurement policies and be mindful of the possible mutual consequences when conducting their activities;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Point 1 a (new)
Point 1 a (new)
1a. Remains unconvinced by the OECD's view that the primary objective of effective procurement policy ought to be the promotion of efficiency, i.e. the selection of the supplier offering the lowest price; regards other public policy objectives - including pro-employment and anti- poverty strategies, the promotion of local innovation pools and Green and Fair Trade procurement - as being of at least equal if not higher importance;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Point 2
Point 2
2. Believes that a plurilateral agreement such as the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA) is the best tool to ensure a level playing field for European enterprises inTakes note of the provisional agreement on the revision of the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA) regarding market access to public procurement at international level; therefore urgescalls on the Commission to recontinue its efforts to conclude the ambitious GPAsider the reform of the GPA in the light of the current economic crisis, in order to guarantee the possibility of public spending at all levels of government to achieve anti-cyclical, pro-employment and regional development goals;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Point 3
Point 3
3. Takes the view that the EU public procurement market remains the most open public procurement market at global level; asks the Commission to provide it with a comprehensive statistical overview of third-country providers' share of the procurement markets for goods and services of the 27 EU Member States and the total amounts involved;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Point 4
Point 4
4. RegretNotes that our international partners have not yet opened up their internal public procurement markets to EU companies in the samea different way to that in which the EU internal market is openhas been opened up to third-country enterprises; deeply deplores the fact that our major trading partners employ public procurement practices which discriminate against EU suppliers tendering for public contractwelcomes the specific provisions adopted in some GPA partner countries concerning discrimination in favour of their small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and asks the Commission to propose a similar SME rule in European legislation; welcomes the Commission's focus on Fair Trade goods in public procurement and calls ion third countriee Commission to propose specific Fair Trade provisions in the GPA negotiations;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Point 4 a (new)
Point 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Commission to stop insisting that trade partners include procurement chapters in ongoing FTA and EPA negotiations if those partners do not wish to do so;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Point 4 b (new)
Point 4 b (new)
4b. Calls on the Commission to stop insisting, in ongoing FTA and EPA negotiations, that trade partners agree not to include SME-related provisions in or withdraw them from their respective procurement policies;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Point 5
Point 5
5. Firmly believes in the principle of reciprocity in the field of public procurement; calls on the Commission to consider imposing targeted restrictions on access to parts of the EU's procurement markets for those trading partners which benefit from the openness of EU market and which have not shown the intention of opening their markets for EU companies in order to encourage our partners to offer reciprocal market opening for European companies;