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"We cannot subscribe to the approach adopted by the rapporteur or to that of the Commission. On the pretext of simplifying and updating existing Community legislation on awarding public contracts (the directives of February 1998), both approaches seek to create a single European market using liberal criteria. We cannot accept a situation where the lowest price is favoured in the award of public contracts and where social, territorial and environmental criteria are relegated to the background.
This approach is in thrall to liberal dogma and does not meet the expectations of users, or those of employees, since its principal effect is to harm quality, security and employment. The issue of threshold values proposed by the Commission, above which a public contract will be open to Community regulation, seems rather risible. To increase these by 50% does not propose an alternative; it simply temporarily defers the moment when private trusts can get their hands on the EUR 1 000 billion generated each year by public procurement in the European Union as a whole (or 14% GNP). We must take a different approach, where the public services are provided by public companies and monitored by the citizens. That is why we voted against the Zappalà report."@en1
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