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Shadow reports (1)

REPORT on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on procurement by entities operating in the water, energy, transport and postal services sectors PDF (1 MB) DOC (2 MB)
2016/11/22
Committee: IMCO
Dossiers: 2011/0439(COD)
Documents: PDF(1 MB) DOC(2 MB)

Amendments (71)

Amendment 188 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 37 a (new)
(37a) For all procurement it is necessary that contracting authorities ensure that the products, services and works subject to the contract meet the requirements of data protection law. In order to ensure and demonstrate the protection of the rights and freedoms of data subjects with regard to the processing of personal data, tenderers should adopt internal policies and implement appropriate technical and organisational measures at the time of the design of the processing of personal data (data protection by design).
2012/09/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 195 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 43
(43) Contracts should be awarded on the basis of objective criteria that ensure compliance with the principles of transparency, non-discrimination and equal treatment. Those criteria should guarantee that tenders are assessed in conditions of effective competition, also where contracting entities require high-quality works, supplies and services that are optimally suited to their needs. As a result, contracting entities should be allowed to adopt as award criteria either ‘the most economically advantageous tender’ or ‘the lowest cost’, taking into account that in the latter case they are free to set adequate quality standards by using technical specifications or contract performance conditions, in case of standardised goods, ‘the lowest prize'.
2012/09/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 201 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 46
(46) Thoese sector-specific measures must be complemented by an adaptation of the public procurement Directives empowering contracting entauthorities to pursue the objectives of the Europe 2020 Strategy in their purchasing strategies. It should hence be made clear that contracting entauthorities can determine the most economically advantageous tender and the lowest cost using a life-cycle costing approach, provided that the methodology to be used is established in an objective and non- discriminatory manner and accessible to all interested parties. The notion of life-cycle costing includes all internal costs over the life- cycle of a works, supplies or services, both their internal costs (such as development, production, (such as use, maintenance and end-of- life disposal costs) and their external costs, provided they can be monetised and monitored. Common methodologies should be developed at the level of the Union for the calculation of life-cycle costs for specific categories of supplies or services; whenever such a methodology is developed its use should be made compulsory.
2012/09/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 209 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 47
(47) Furthermore, in technical specifications and in award criteria, contracting entauthorities should be allowed to refer to a specific production process, a specific mode of provision of services, or a specific process for any other stage of the life- cycle of a product or service, provided that they are linked to the subject-matter of the contract. In order to better integrate social considerations in public procurement, procurers may also be allowed to include, in the award criterion of the most economically advantageous tender characteristics related to the working conditions of the persons directly participating in the process of production or provision in question. Those characteristics may only concern the protection of health of the staff involved in the production process or the favouring of social integration of disadvantaged persons or members of vulnerable groups amongst the persons assigned to performing the contract, including accessibility for persons with disabilities. Any award criteria which include those characteristics should in any event remain limited to characteristics that have immediate consequences on staff members in their working environment. They should be applied in accordance with Directive 96/71/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 1996 concerning the posting of workers in the framework of the provision of services32 and in a way that does not discriminate directly or indirectly against economic operators from other Member States or from third countries parties to the Agreement or to Free Trade Agreements to which the Union is partypublic contract and proportionate to the value and objectives of the contract.
2012/09/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 213 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 50
(50) Contract performance conditions are compatible with this Directive provided that they are not directly or indirectly discriminatory, are linked to the subject- matter of the contract and are indicated in the notice used to make the call for competition, or in the procurement documents. They may, in particular, be intended to favour on-site vocational training, the employment of people experiencing particular difficulty in achieving integration, the fight against unemployment, protection of the environment or animal welfareor professional training. For example, mention may be made of the requirements applicable during the performance of the contract to recruit long-term job-seekers or to implement training measures for the unemployed or for young persons, to comply in substance with fundamental International Labour Organisation (ILO) Conventions, even where such Conventions have not been implemented in national law, and to recruit more disadvantaged persons than are required under national legislation.
2012/09/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 223 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 58
(58) Member States should designate a single national authority in charge of monitoring, implementation and control of public procurement. Such a central body should have first hand and timely information particularly in relation to different problems affecting the implementation of public procurement law. It should be able to provide immediate feedback on the functioning of the policy, the potential weaknesses in national legislation and practice and contribute to the quick identification of solutions. In view of efficiently fighting corrupion and fraud, this central body and the general public should also have the possibility to inspect the texts of concluded contracts. High-value contracts should hence be transmitted to the oversight body with a possibility of interested persons to have access to these documents, to the extent that legitimate public or private interests are not jeopardized.deleted
2012/09/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 240 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
An entirety of works, supplies and/or services which are uniform in character by their economic and technical functions, even if purchased through different contracts, constitutes a single procurement within the meaning of this Directive, if the contracts are part of one single project.
2012/09/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 253 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 4 – point c
(c) it is financed, for the most part, bywhich satisfy at least one of the following conditions: (i) the majority of the funding is from the State, regional or local authorities, or other bodies governed by public law; or subject to management supervision by those bodies; or has an(ii) the majority of the administrative, managerial or supervisory board, more than half of whose members are appointed is appointed by the state, regional or local authorities, or other bodies governed by public law; (iii) decisions are subject to management control by the State, regional or local authorities, or by other bodies governed by public law;.
2012/09/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 264 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 22
(22) 'life cycle' means all consecutive and/or interlinked stages, including production, transport, use and maintenance, throughout the existence of a product or a works or the provision of a service, from raw material acquisition or generation of resources toacquisition to use, maintenance, disposal, clearance and finalisation;.
2012/09/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 265 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 22 a (new)
(22a) 'standardised products' means products which do not differ significantly in their composition or characteristics.
2012/09/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 301 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 15 – paragraph 2
2. The contracting entities shall notify the Commission or the national oversight body at their request of all the categories of products or activities which they regard as excluded under paragraph 1. The Commission may periodically publish in the Official Journal of the European Union, for information purposes, lists of the categories of products and activities which it considers to be covered by this exclusion. In so doing, the Commission shall respect any sensitive commercial aspects that the contracting entities may point out when forwarding information.
2012/09/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 304 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 16 – paragraph 2
2. The contracting entities shall notify the Commission or the national oversight body at their request of any activities which they regard as excluded under paragraph 1. The Commission may periodically publish in the Official Journal of the European Union for information purposes, lists of the categories of activities which it considers to be covered by this exclusion. In so doing, the Commission shall respect any sensitive commercial aspects that the contracting entities may point out when forwarding this information.
2012/09/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 317 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 19 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) financial services in connection with the issue, sale, purchase or transfer of securities or other financial instruments within the meaning of Directive 2004/39/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, transactions to enable contracting authorities to raise money or capital and operations conducted with the European Financial Stability Facility;
2012/09/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 324 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 19 – paragraph 1 – point f a (new)
(fa) any of the following legal services: (i) legal representation of a client in judicial proceedings before the national courts, tribunals or public authorities of a Member State by a lawyer within the meaning of Article 1 of Directive 77/249/EEC; (ii) document certification services which must be provided by notaries; (iii) legal services provided by trustees, appointed guardians or other legal services the providers of which are designated by a court or tribunal in the Member State concerned; (iv) other legal services which in the Member State concerned are connected, even occasionally, with the exercise of official authority.
2012/09/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 337 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 21 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point b
(b) that 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 authoritygal person acts essentially for the controlling contracting authority or for other legal persons controlled by that contracting authority. That legal person shall be presumed to be acting essentially for the controlling contracting authority or for other legal persons controlled by that contracting authority if it carries out at least 90 % of its activities which are covered by the contract on behalf of that contracting authority or those legal persons;
2012/09/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 344 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 21 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point c
(c) there is no private participation in the controlled legal person does not exceed 50 % of its voting shares.
2012/09/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 349 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 21 – 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. The above conditions shall apply mutatis mutandis if a contracting authority awards a public contract to a legal person it controls jointly with other contracting authorities.
2012/09/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 354 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 21 – 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 does not exceed 50 % of its voting shares.
2012/09/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 364 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 21 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point b
(b) that least 90 % of the activities of that legal person are carried outgal person acts essentially for the controlling contracting authority or for other legal persons controlled by that contracting authority. That legal person shall be presumed to be acting essentially for the controlling contracting authoritiesy or for other legal persons controlled by the same contracting authoritieat contracting authority if it carries out at least 90 % of its activities which are covered by the contract on behalf of that contracting authority or those legal persons;
2012/09/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 373 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 21 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point c
(c) there is no private participation in the controlled legal person does not exceed 50 % of its voting shares.
2012/09/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 376 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 21 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2 – point a
(a) the decision-making bodies of the controlled legal person are composed of representatives of allthe participating contracting authorities;
2012/09/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 379 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 21 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2 – point c
(c) the controlled legal person does not pursue any interests which are distinct fromcontrary to that of the public authorities affiliated to it;
2012/09/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 384 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 21 – paragraph 4 – point a
(a) the agreement establishes a genuine co- operation between the participating contracting authorities aimed at carrying out jointly their public service tasks and involving mutual rights and obligations of the parties;
2012/09/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 390 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 21 – paragraph 4 – point b
(b) the agreement is governed only by considerations relating topublic interest considerations; this principle shall also apply to auxiliary services essential to the provision of services in the public interest;
2012/09/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 402 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 21 – paragraph 4 – point d
(d) the agreement does not primarily involve financial transfers between the participating contracting authorities, other than those corresponding to the reimbursement of actual costs of the works, services or supplies;
2012/09/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 405 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 21 – paragraph 4 – point e
(e) there is no private participation in any of the contracting authorities involveddoes not exceed 50 % of its voting shares.
2012/09/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 430 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 24 – introductory part
Contracting entities shall notify to the Commission or the national oversight body, at their request, the following information regarding the application of Article 22, paragraphs 2, 3 and Article 23:
2012/09/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 465 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 34 – paragraph 1
Member States shall ensure that, atby the latest 2 years after the date provided for in Article 101(1), all1st January 2017, at least 70% of procurement procedures under this Directive are performed using electronic means of communication, in particular e- submission, in accordance with the requirements of this Article. Member States shall ensure that, by the 1st January 2020, 100% of procurement procedures under this Directive are performed using electronic means of communication, in particular e-submission, in accordance with the requirements of this Article.
2012/09/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 479 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 36 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point b
(b) that candidates and tenderers are required to submit at the beginning of the procurement procedure a declaration on the existence of any privileged links with the persons referred to in paragraph 2(b), which are likely to place those persons in a situation of conflict of interests; the contracting authority shall indicate in the individual report referred to in Article 94 whether any candidate or tenderer has submitted a declaration.
2012/09/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 484 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 36 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 3
Where privileged links are identified, the contracting authority shall immediately inform the oversight body designated in accordance with Article 93 and take appropriate measures to avoid any undue influence on the award process and ensure equal treatment of candidates and tenderers. IfWhere the conflict of interests cannot be effectively remedied by other means, the candidate or tenderer concerned shall be excluded from the procedure.
2012/09/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 485 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 36 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 3 a (new)
Member States shall ensure that an individual who reports undisclosed conflicts of interest of other staff members referred to in paragraph 2(a) in good faith has the right to be protected against retaliation. Retaliation means any direct or indirect detrimental action recommended, threatened or taken against an individual because of such action.
2012/09/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 496 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 40 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
The minimum time limit for the receipt of tenders shall be 407 days from the date on which the contract notice was sent.
2012/09/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 498 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 41 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
The minimum time limit for the receipt of requests to participate shall, as a general rule, be fixed at no less than 305 days from the date on which the contract notice or the invitation to confirm interest is sent and may in no case be less than 15 days.
2012/09/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 500 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 42 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
The minimum time limit for the receipt of requests to participate shall, as a general rule, be fixed at no less than 305 days from the date on which the contract notice or, where a periodic indicative notice is used as a means of calling for competition, the invitation to confirm interest is sent and may in no case be less than 15 days.
2012/09/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 505 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 43 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Member States mayshall provide that contracting entities may apply innovation partnerships as regulated in this Directive. Member States may decide not to transpose into their national law innovation partnerships or to restrict the use of it to certain types of procurement.
2012/09/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 506 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 43 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
In innovation partnerships, any economic operator may submit a request to participate in response to a call for competition in accordance with points (b) and (c) of Article 39(2)ontract notice with a view to establishing a structured partnership for the development of an innovative product, service or works and the subsequent purchase of the resulting supplies, services or works, provided that they correspond to the agreed performance levels and coststhe need for which cannot be met by solutions already available on the market, provided that they correspond to the agreed performance levels and costs. The contract setting up the innovation partnership shall be awarded on the sole basis of the award criterion of the most economically advantageous tender in accordance with Article 76(1)(a).
2012/09/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 530 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 44 – paragraph 1 – point j
(j) for purchases of supplies under particularly advantageous conditions from either a supplier definitively winding up its business activities or the liquidators in an insolvency procedure, an arrangement with creditors or a similar procedure under national laws or regulations;
2012/09/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 540 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 45 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3
The term of a framework agreement shall not exceed foursix years, save in exceptional cases duly justified, in particular by the subject of the framework agreement.
2012/09/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 560 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 47 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
CWhere fully standardised supplies and services are involved, contracting entities may use electronic auctions in which new prices, revised downwards, and/or new values concerning certain elements of tenders are presented.
2012/09/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 589 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 53 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Such measures shall include the communication to the other candidates and tenderers of any relevant information exchanged in the context of or resulting from the involvement of the candidate or tenderer in the preparation of the procurement procedure and the fixing of adequate time limits for the receipt of tenders. Contracting authorities shall either (i) clarify in their invitation to participate in a consultation what information will be considered relevant and thus may be shared with all potential bidders or (ii) set out in detail the rights of and procedures available to consultation participants that allow them to protect confidential information. The candidate or tenderer concerned shall only be excluded from the procedure where there are no other means to ensure compliance with the duty to observe the principle of equal treatment.
2012/09/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 593 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 54 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
These characteristics may also refer to the specific process of production or provision of the requested works, supplies or services or of any other stage of its life cycle as referred to in point (22) of Article 2, provided that they are linked to the subject-matter of the contract and proportionate to the value and objectives of the contract.
2012/09/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 598 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 54 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 5 a (new)
For all procurement, technical specifications shall be drawn up so as to ensure that the products, services and works subject to the contract meet the requirements of data protection law at the time of the design of the processing of personal data (data protection by design).
2012/09/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 605 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 54 – paragraph 3 – point b
(b) by reference to technical specifications and, in order of preference, and without discrimination as to development method, to national standards transposing European standards, European technical approvals, common technical specifications, international standards, other technical reference systems established by the European standardisation bodies or - when those do not exist - national standards, national technical approvals or national technical specifications relating to the design, calculation and execution of the works and use of the supplies; each reference shall be accompanied by the words 'or equivalent';
2012/09/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 607 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 54 – paragraph 4
4. Unless justified by the subject-matter of the contract, technical specifications shall not refer to a specific make or source, or to a particular process or development or business model or method, or to trade marks, patents, types or a specific origin or production withor location of production, as any such reference would have the effect of favouring or eliminating certain undertakings or certain products. Such reference shall be permitted, on an exceptional basis, where a sufficiently precise and intelligible description of the subject-matter of the contract pursuant to paragraph 3 is not possible. Such reference shall systematically be accompanied by the words "or equivalent".
2012/09/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 667 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 64 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Within two months ofNot later than 14 days after the award of a contract or the conclusion of a framework agreement, contracting entities shall send a contract award notice on the results of the procurement procedure.
2012/09/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 679 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 70 – paragraph 5
5. Contracting entities may decide not to award a contract to the tenderer submitting the best tender where they have established that the tender does not comply, at least in an equivalent manner, with obligations established by Union legislation in the field of social and labour law, data protection law or environmental law or of the international social and environmental law provisions listed in Annex XIV.
2012/09/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 682 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 70 – paragraph 5
5. Contracting entities may decide not to authorities shall not award a contract to the tenderer submitting the best tender where they have established based on clear and sufficient evidence that the tender does not comply, at least in an equivalent manner, with obligations established by Union legislation in the field of social and labour law or environmental law or of the international social and environmental law provisions listed in Annex XIV.
2012/09/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 714 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 76 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point b
(b) the lowest costprice only where no other award criteria are available from an objective point of view, in particular for standardised products as defined in point 22a (new) of Article 2.
2012/09/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 716 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 76 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Costs may be assessed, at the choice of the contracting entity, on the basis of the price only or using a cost-effectiveness approach, such as a life-cycle costing approach, under the conditions set out in Article 77.deleted
2012/09/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 727 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 76 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2 – introductory part
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 of the public contract in question, such as:
2012/09/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 731 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 76 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2 – point a a (new)
(aa) costs over the life cycle in accordance with Article 67
2012/09/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 736 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 76 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 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 may be taken into consideration, with the consequence that, following the award of the contract, such staff may only be replaced with the consent of the contracting entauthority, which must verify that replacements ensure equivalent organisqualification and qualityexperience;
2012/09/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 739 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 76 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2 – point d
(d) the specific process of production or provision of the requested works, supplies or services or of any other stage of its life cycle, as referred to in point 22 of Article 2, to the extent that those criteria are specified in accordance with paragraph 4 and they concern factors directly involved in those processes and characterise the specific process of production or provision of the requested works, supplies or services.deleted
2012/09/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 748 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 77 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. Life-cycle costing shall to the extent relevant cover parts or all of the following costs borne by the contracting authority or other users over the life cycle of a product, service or works as defined in point (22) of Article 2:
2012/09/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 751 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 77 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) internal costs, including costs relating to acquisition, such as production(aa) costs, of use, such as energy consumption, of energy and other resources, (ab) maintenance costs and; (ac) end of life costs, such as collection and recycling costs and;
2012/09/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 752 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 77 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) external environmental costs directly linked to the life cycle, provided their monetary value can be determined and verified, which may include the cost of emissions of greenhouse gases and of other pollutant emissions and other climate change mitigation costs.deleted
2012/09/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 757 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 77 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
2. Where contracting entities assess the costs usingauthorities use a life- cycle costing approach, they shall indicate in the procurement documents the methodology used for the calculation of the life-cycle costs. The methodology used must fulfil all of the following conditions: (a) it has been drawn up on the basis of scientific information or is based on other objectively verifiable and non- discriminatory criteria; (b) it has been established for repeated or continuous application; (c) it is accessible to all interested partiesdata to be provided by the tenderers and the method which the contracting authority will use to determine the life-cycle costs on the basis of these data.
2012/09/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 764 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 77 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Contracting entities shall allow economic operators, including economic operators from third countries, to apply a different methodology for establishing the life-cycle costs of their offer, provided that they prove that this methodology complies with the requirements set out in points a, b and c and is equivalent to the methodology indicated by the contracting entity.deleted
2012/09/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 766 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 77 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
3. Whenever a common methodology for the calculation of life-cycle costs is adopted as part of a legislative act of the Union, including by delegated acts pursuant to sector specific legislation, it shall be applied where life-cycle costing is included in the award criteria referred to in Article 76 (1).deleted
2012/09/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 769 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 77 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2
A list of such legislative and delegated acts is set out in Annex XV. The Commission, shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 98 concerning the update of this list, when on the basis of the adoption of new legislation, repeal or modification of such legislation, such amendments prove necessary.
2012/09/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 796 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 79 – paragraph 3 – point d
(d) compliance, at least in an equivalent manner, with obligations established by Union legislation in the field of social and labour law, data protection law or environmental law or of the international social and environmental law provisions listed in Annex XIV or, where not applicable, with other provisions ensuring an equivalent level of protection;
2012/09/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 801 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 79 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 3
Contracting entities shall reject the tender, where they have established that the tender is abnormally low because it does not comply with obligations established by Union legislation in the field of social and labour law, data protection law or environmental law or by the international social and environmental law provisions listed in Annex XIV.
2012/09/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 823 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 80
Contracting entities may lay down special conditions relating to the performance of a contract, provided that they are indicated in the call for competition or in the specifications. Those conditions may, in particular, concern social and environmental considerationstraining measures for unemployed and young people. They may also include the requirement that economic operators foresee compensations for risks of price increases that are the result of price fluctuations (hedging) and that could substantially impact the performance of a contract.
2012/09/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 872 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 82 – paragraph 4
4. Where the value of a modification can be expressed in monetary terms, the modification shall not be considered to be substantial within the meaning of paragraph 1, where its value does not exceed the thresholds set out in Article 12 and where it is below 515 % of the price of the initial contract, provided that the modification does not alter the overall nature of the contract. Where several successive modifications are made, the value shall be assessed on the basis of the cumulative value of the successive modifications.
2012/09/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 889 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 83 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) the Court of Justice of the European Union finds, in a procedure under Article 258 of the Treaty, that a Member State has failed to fulfil its obligations under the Treaties due to the fact that a contracting entity belonging to that Member State has awarded the contract in question without complying with its obligations under the Treaties and this Directive. A contractor who was unaware of the contracting authority’s breach of the law may claim compensation for the losses suffered as a result of the termination of the contract.
2012/09/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 935 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 93
Article 93 Public oversight 1. Member States shall appoint a single independent body responsible for the oversight and coordination of implementation activities (hereinafter "the oversight body"). Member States shall inform the Commission of their designation. All contracting entities shall be subject to such oversight. 2. The competent authorities involved in the implementation activities shall be organised in such a manner that conflicts of interests are avoided. The system of public oversight shall be transparent. For this purpose, all guidance and opinion documents and an annual report illustrating the implementation and application of rules laid down in this Directive shall be published. The annual report shall include the following: (a) an indication of the success rate of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in procurement; where the percentage is lower than 50 % in terms of values of contracts awarded to SMEs, the report shall provide an analysis of the reasons therefore; (b) a global overview of the implementation of sustainable procurement policies, including on procedures taking into account considerations linked to the protection of the environment, social inclusion including accessibility for persons with disabilities or fostering innovation; (c) centralized data about reported cases of fraud, corruption, conflict of interests and other serious irregularities in the field of public procurement, including those affecting projects cofinanced by the budget of the Union. 3. The oversight body shall be responsible for the following tasks: (a) monitoring the application of public procurement rules and the related practice by contracting entities and in particular by central purchasing bodies; (b) providing legal advice to contracting entities on the interpretation of public procurement rules and principles and on the application of public procurement rules in specific cases; (c) issuing own initiative opinions and guidance on questions of general interest pertaining to the interpretation and application of public procurement rules, on recurring questions and on systemic difficulties related to the application of public procurement rules, in the light of the provisions of this Directive and of the relevant case-law of the Court of Justice of the European Union; (d) establishing and applying comprehensive, actionable 'red flag' indicator systems to prevent, detect and adequately report instances of procurement fraud, corruption, conflict of interest and other serious irregularities; (e) drawing the attention of the national competent institutions, including auditing authorities, to specific violations detected and to systemic problems; (f) examining complaints from citizens and businesses on the application of public procurement rules in specific cases and transmitting the analysis to the competent contracting entities, which shall have the obligation to take it into account in their decisions or, where the analysis is not followed, to explain the reasons for disregarding it; (g) monitoring the decisions taken by national courts and authorities following a ruling given by the Court of Justice of the European Union on the basis of Article 267 of the Treaty or findings of the European Court of Auditors establishing violations of Union public procurement rules related to projects cofinanced by the Union; the oversight body shall report to the European Anti-Fraud Office any infringement to Union procurement procedures where these were related to contracts directly or indirectly funded by the European Union. The tasks referred to in point (e) shall be without prejudice to the exercise of rights of appeal under national law or under the system established on the basis of directive 92/13/EEC. Member States shall empower the oversight body to seize the jurisdiction competent according to national law for the review of contracting entities' decisions where it has detected a violation in the course of its monitoring and legal advising activity. 4. Without prejudice to the general procedures and working methods established by the Commission for its communications and contacts with Member States, the oversight body shall act as a specific contact point for the Commission when it monitors the application of Union law and the implementation of the budget from the Union on the basis of Article 17 of the Treaty on the European Union and Article 317 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. It shall report to the Commission any violation of this Directive in procurement procedures for the award of contracts directly or indirectly funded by the Union. The Commission may in particular refer to the oversight body the treatment of individual cases where the contract is not yet concluded or a review procedure can still be carried out. It may also entrust the oversight body with the monitoring activities necessary to ensure the implementation of the measures to which Member States are committed in order to remedy a violation of Union public procurement rules and principles identified by the Commission. The Commission may require the oversight body to analyse alleged breaches to Union public procurement rules affecting projects co-financed by the budget of the Union. The Commission may entrust the oversight body to follow- up certain cases and to ensure that the appropriate consequences of breaches to Union public procurement rules affecting projects co-financed are taken by the competent national authorities which will be obliged to follow its instructions. 5. The investigation and enforcement activities carried out by the oversight body to ensure that contracting entities' decisions comply with this Directive and the general principles of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union shall not replace or prejudge the institutional role of the Commission as guardian of the Treaty. When the Commission decides to refer the treatment of an individual case, it shall also retain the right to intervene in accordance with the powers conferred to it by the Treaty. 6. Contracting authorities shall transmit to the national oversight body the full text of all concluded contracts with a value equal to or greater than (a) 1 000 000 EUR in the case of supply contracts or service contracts; (b) 10 000 000 EUR in the case of works contracts. 7. Without prejudice to the national law concerning access to information, and in accordance with national and EU legislation on data protection, the oversight body shall, upon written request, give unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge, to the concluded contracts referred to in paragraph 6. Access to certain parts of the contracts may be refused where their disclosure would impede law enforcement or otherwise be contrary to the public interest, would harm the legitimate commercial interests of economic operators, public or private, or might prejudice fair competition between them. Access to the parts that may be released shall be given within a reasonable delay and no later than 45 days from the date of the request. The applicants filing a request for access to a contract shall not need to show any direct or indirect interest related to that particular contract. The recipient of information should be allowed to make it public. 8. A summary of all the activities carried out by the oversight body in accordance with paragraphs 1 to 7 shall be included in the annual report mentioned in paragraph 2.deleted
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Amendment 956 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 94 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Contracting entities shall document the progress of all procurement procedures, whether or not the procedures are conducted by electronic means. To that end, they shall document all stages in the procurement procedure, including all communications with economic operators and internal deliberations, preparation of the tenders, dialogue or negotiation if any, selection and award of the contract.
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Committee: IMCO
Amendment 959 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 95
Article 95deleted
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Committee: IMCO
Amendment 978 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 97 – paragraph 3
3. For the purposes of this Article, Member States shall designate one or more liaison points, the contact details of which shall be communicated to the other Member States, the oversight bodies and the Commission. Member States shall publish and regularly update the list of liaison points. The oversight body shall be in charge of the coordination of such liaison points.
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Committee: IMCO
Amendment 992 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex 8 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point a
(ea) in the case of service or supply contracts a specification in a document defining the required characteristics of a product or a service, such as quality levels, environmental and climate performance levels, design for all requirements (including accessibility for disabled persons) and conformity assessment, performance, use of the product, safety or dimensions, including requirements relevant to the product as regards the name under which the product is sold, terminology, rules relating to design (including data protection by design), symbols, testing and test methods, packaging, marking and labelling, user instructions, production processes and methods at any stage of the life cycle of the supply or service and conformity assessment procedures;
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Committee: IMCO
Amendment 993 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex 8 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point b
(b) in the case of works contracts, the totality of the technical prescriptions contained in particular in the procurement documents, defining the characteristics required of a material, product or supply, which permits a material, a product or a supply to be described in a manner such that it fulfils the use for which it is intended by the contracting entity; those characteristics include levels of environmental and climate performance, design for all requirements (including accessibility for disabled persons) and conformity assessment, performance, safety or dimensions, including the procedures concerning quality assurance, terminology, symbols, testing and test methods, packaging, marking and labelling, user instructions, and production processes and methods at any stage of the life cycle of the works; those characteristics also include rules relating to design (including data protection by design) and costing, the test, inspection and acceptance conditions for works and methods or techniques of construction and all other technical conditions which the contracting entity is in a position to prescribe, under general or specific regulations, in relation to the finished works and to the materials or parts which they involve;
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Committee: IMCO