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"Mr President, I should like to congratulate you on your re-election as Vice-President of this Parliament.
The Commission proposes to consolidate and modernise the present procurement directives. This is with good reason, for they are too complex and too bureaucratic for contracting authorities and industry alike.
Can we realise political ambitions via the public procurement procedures? This question seems to be at the heart of the long-term discussion on this topic. Via Amendment No 98, this report wishes to add both social and environmental criteria to the assessment of the most favourable tenderer. Environmental criteria – a European area of policy
can be measured objectively by means of management standards and can therefore easily be deployed in practice. However, we believe that it would be taking matters too far to prescribe at European level that national bodies must take account of social criteria in their assessment. Social policy is to be established nationally, and that is how it should continue to be. Furthermore, this amendment would make the procedure considerably more complex, both for the contracting authorities and the tenderers. It could lead to all kinds of new points of contention and differences in interpretation. This is why the directive would become just as difficult to implement as the current one.
We wholeheartedly support the exclusion of economic operators that have been convicted of offences. In my country, there are currently various criminal cases pending against building contractors, and it seems as if fraud is becoming a widespread phenomenon. This text drives the message home to industry: you do not mess with public money."@en1
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