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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I, too, should like to thank all the coordinators and their representative the rapporteur for their good work on this report. There is agreement right across the political divide that the direction and content of the report are correct, something also demonstrated by the fact that the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection voted clearly in favour of it.
As a rule, it should be noted that there are differences in consistency in the transposition of public procurement law across the EU by the individual Member States, and that therefore the Commission’s repeated assertion that there are problems with public procurement law in certain Member States is untenable as such on the basis of basic macroeconomic criteria. What is vital, however, is that we improve data collection on the problems surrounding public procurement law in the Member States. Consequently, I am delighted that the report addresses this point and calls on the Commission to expand the data resource on the basis of which the national systems of public procurement law are assessed.
I should now like to discuss a few amendments. We reject most of the amendments tabled. I welcome Mrs Rühle’s announcement that Amendment 12 is to be withdrawn. We do not disagree with all the amendments tabled by Mr Lipietz or the Committee on Legal Affairs, but they would weaken the report, which forms a very rounded whole.
The timely and correct transposition and implementation of public procurement legislation would significantly contribute to meeting the objectives of the EU’s ‘better lawmaking’ programme and to improving the implementation of the Directive in the internal market by means of better, more consistent transposition.
We would ask the Commission and, in particular, the Council, to put pressure on the Member States to devote more capacity to raising the level of procurement professionalism and sharing best practice to ensure uniform application of these rules in all areas of the European Union.
As regards the amendment tabled by the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, I should like to add that, whilst the local authorities presumably welcome the fact that they are to enjoy cooperation free of red tape, ultimately, the case law of the European Court of Justice does not provide any genuinely clear guidelines regarding the opportunities for inter-municipal cooperation or public–public partnerships either in Spain or Traxa. Consequently, the Commission is called upon to look at what further steps are necessary in this field."@en1
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