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This directive follows the Lisbon Strategy guidelines closely. It aims to complement the general directive establishing rules on coordination in the sphere of public contracts, responding to the specific requirements of the regulations on the award of contracts in the water, energy, transport and postal services sectors.
These reports are anchored to a large extent in the broader philosophy of liberalising and privatising markets and public services. Such policies were given fresh impetus at the last Spring Council, especially in these essential sectors. The reports are also linked to the next round of World Trade Organisation (WTO) negotiations, not only because of the general agreement on the liberalisation of services, by which I mean the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), but also because they address the issue of opening up the markets and public contracts, which was on the Doha Agenda and to which the EU attaches so much importance.
Where essential socio-economic sectors are concerned, of course, we cannot leave them at the mercy of market forces, obeying the principles of opening up the markets and of non-discrimination whilst at the same time curtailing the powers of Member States and national administrations.
For these reasons we voted against this proposal as well."@en1
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