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"Mr President, as Chair of the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection, and also as the shadow rapporteur on both the directives, may I say that it is a very special day for all of us, and particularly for me, having chaired the conciliation meetings, to be here today after an extremely long process.
One of the reasons we have a very good outcome – and I am pleased that, generally, across the different committees, the work we have done is now being fully appreciated for its economic and political (and, I would also say, strategic) importance for Europe – is that we did not just wait until you, Mr Barnier, sent us some very good material to work with but, since 2009, when I became chair, we have worked on public procurement as a policy.
I was really delighted that Heide Rühle’s group did her the honour of giving her six minutes’ speaking time. She deserved that because she was rapporteur for two own-initiative reports which got us here. This has been an immensely complex challenge. We have to make this a complete repositioning of public procurement, as a tool for encouraging the better, more innovative and more efficient delivery of public services across the board, whether they are concessions in the area of transport or catering or concern the simple procurement of goods or services.
We have to say to public procurers that this is not just a question of getting in the tenders and selecting the lowest price, but that they have to sharpen up their act, as smart customers, to decide exactly what it is that they want. We are giving them the opportunity to do some proper negotiation with the suppliers to match up their requirements with what those suppliers can deliver. If they can provide them with a better and more innovative solution, then they can take that solution. This is the rethinking here. It must not be a legalistic process but a process that delivers better outcomes.
I was delighted that Claude Turmes talked about innovative procurement and, Commissioner, you mentioned that very specifically. We have an entirely new tool here to enable an innovative supplier to work with a customer and, over an extended period, to develop and deploy a solution. That customer will be doing the European economy a service by supporting that innovative company. That is how important this proposal is.
I would just say in conclusion to the Commissioner that, in the next cycle of this Parliament, we need his successors in the Directorate-General for Internal Market and Services to give attention to transposition in the same way as for the Services Directive. There has to be an equally intensive period of working with Member States to deliver the real benefits of this proposal, otherwise we will have done all this work in vain."@en1
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