Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-07-02-Speech-3-081"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-07-02"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Vote2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030702.2.3-081"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-07-02-Speech-3-0822
lpv:speaker	lp:Erik Meijer2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Socialistische Partij (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member_of_the_bureau; EUL/NGL (1999-10-13--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Slovak Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Czech Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	". Public tenders have for a long time been considered a panacea. On the one hand, they are an alternative to nepotism, the awarding of public contracts to entrepreneurs who are friendly with politicians or high officials. On the other, they are intended to bring to an end the production and provision of services by companies that are owned by the government itself, and so to enable private companies to access new markets. I have already indicated – at first reading on 17 January 2002 – that I agree with the first intention but not with the second, which renders governments increasingly more dependent on companies. The damage can only be limited by means of all kinds of bureaucratic rules which will, however, remain unknown to many and will therefore be broken on a regular basis. In fact, the Dutch employers' organisation VNO-NCW has requested not to make the tender directives more far-reaching by adding 'a multitude of social and environmental criteria'. In its opinion, putting out to tender is 'a purely economic process which should not be contaminated so as to achieve other goals'. Even the rapporteur himself has already deleted a number of points on the subject of social protection and environment. I reject this approach. I do, however, share the rapporteur's view that the schoolbooks market does not function across borders and is not open to free competition, so that it is thus preferable not to lay down rules that assume that this is the case."@en1

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