Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-01-16-Speech-3-164"
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"Mr President, procurement policy is a very important means of leading social development in the direction of sustainability. Local authorities and state organisations must therefore naturally be entitled to take account of the environment, the working environment and social goals when they procure goods and services. This is a right, Mr Harbour, and not a duty, even if you repeatedly try to present it as such. It is a right that local authorities must be given, with due attention having to be paid, of course, to ensuring that there will be no question of a distortion of competition. The EU has, of course, some splendid objectives in both the environmental and social areas but, if we do not integrate these objectives into all EU legislation, then little progress will be made and we shall not get anywhere. The public sector must be able to make environmental demands of the products it purchases, and it is particularly important to emphasise in this connection that it must be able to impose requirements upon such products throughout their whole life cycles. It is surprising that the EU’s own eco-label has been given so insignificant a place in the Commission’s proposal and, when the public sector prepares technical specifications, it must naturally be able to refer to the EU’s own eco-label. By means of a number of amendments, we have tried to integrate social and environmental considerations. I hope that, this time round, the Commission will take a positive view of this."@en1
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