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Draft report (2024/2103(INI)) 2025-04-11

Public procurement

Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection

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Amendment 686

Henrik Dahl

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 24

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

24. Recommends the implementation of strategic procurement models that prioritise long-term value and resilience over short-term cost reductions, particularly in sectors such as healthcare, energy and security; cautions against introducing preferential treatment such as blanket 'Buy European' clauses that may conflict with WTO GPA obligations and compromise market neutrality; recommends strategic procurement be guided by resilience and value-for-money principles rather than protectionist impulses;

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Amendment 687

Piotr Müller

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 24

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

24. Recommends the implementation of strategic procurement models that prioritise long-term value, security and resilience over short-term cost reductions, particularly in sectors such as healthcare, pharmaceuticals, energy and security and agri-food; urges the Commission to encourage procurement authorities to award contracts to trusted vendors that meet minimum requirements for governance, risk management and transparency;

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Amendment 688

Stefano Cavedagna, Denis Nesci

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 24

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

24. Recommends the implementation of strategic procurement models that prioritise long-term value and resilience over short-term cost reductions, particularly in sectors such as healthcare, energy and security, taking account of their respective specific characteristics and safety concerns when simplifying procurement processes and addressing gaps in supply chain security;

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Amendment 689

Petr Bystron

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 24

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

24. Recommends the implementation of strategic procurement models that prioritise the interests of the Member States, as well as long-term value and resilience over short-term cost reductions, particularly in sectors such as healthcare, energy and security;

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Amendment 690

Kateřina Konečná

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 24

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

24. Recommends the implementation of strategic procurement models that prioritise long-term value, quality jobs and collective bargaining, and resilience over short-term cost reductions, particularly in sectors such as healthcare, energy and security;

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Amendment 691

Maria Grapini

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 24

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

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Amendment 692

Regina Doherty

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 24

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

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Amendment 693

Jeannette Baljeu, Ivars Ijabs, Yvan Verougstraete, Sandro Gozi, Stéphanie Yon-Courtin, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Morten Løkkegaard, Svenja Hahn

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 24 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

24 a. Believes that public procurement procedures shall reward innovative and sustainable solutions; signals the need to introduce and implement sustainability criteria for public procurement in all Member States and advance product-specific sustainability requirements in line with already existing EU-legislation, such as those developed under the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation; invites the Commission to explore how such criteria can best be developed, ensuring a balanced approach that fosters both sustainability and competition; calls on the Commission to assess the option of establishing a framework of minimum mandatory and non-mandatory sustainability criteria for public procurement, providing clear guidelines for contracting authorities while allowing flexibility for sector-specific and innovation-driven solutions; requests the Commission to consider scenarios for introducing low-carbon criteria and minimum environmental sustainability requirements for public procurement when applying the principle of most economic advantageous tender in EU public procurement legislation; believes strengthening demand for secondary materials shall be incorporated in such an initiative;

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Amendment 694

Stefano Cavedagna, Denis Nesci

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 24 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

24a. Believes that the public procurement framework needs to change so that it can better address the supply chain challenges faced by electricity grid operators, who have to contend with longer delivery times and higher costs; calls for the flexibility and efficiency of public procurement procedures for grid operators to be simplified and safeguarded; supports greater consistency between EU rules that have an impact on public procurement;

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Amendment 695

Ernő Schaller-Baross, Virginie Joron, Klara Dostalova

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 24 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

24 a. Believes that the public procurement framework must evolve to better address the supply chain challenges faced by electricity grid operators, with increased delivery times and costs; calls for simplifying and ensuring the flexibility and efficiency in public procurement procedures for electricity grid operators; advocates for more consistency between EU regulations impacting public procurement;

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Amendment 696

Sandro Gozi, Stéphanie Yon-Courtin

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 24 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

24 a. Supports the introduction of mandatory public procurement sustainability criteria, including both environmental and social aspects, while leaving the contracting authorities and entities enough flexibility by letting them determine whether award criteria, performance conditions and technical specifications are the best suited to take those criteria into account;

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Amendment 697

Piotr Müller

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 24 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

24 a. Underlines the importance of unlocking investments in the market for public procurement and concessions, and calls on the Commission to allow the duration of a concession contract to be modified to take into account new investments carried out by the concessionaire after the awarding of the concession;

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Amendment 698

Salvatore De Meo

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 24 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

24a. Supports greater flexibility in long-term contracts, making it possible to extend framework agreements beyond the eight-year limit, to ensure continuity and predictability and reduce administrative burden and costs in key procurement;

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Amendment 699

Arba Kokalari

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 24 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

24 a. Supports the development and adoption of cutting-edge technologies in public procurement, with a focus on improving competitiveness, while ensuring compliance with security standards;

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Amendment 700

Leila Chaibi, Per Clausen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 24 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

24 a. Supports the introduction of mandatory public procurement sustainability criteria, including both environmental and social aspects;

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Amendment 701

Jeannette Baljeu, Ivars Ijabs, Yvan Verougstraete, Sandro Gozi, Stéphanie Yon-Courtin, Nikola Minchev, Anna-Maja Henriksson, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Morten Løkkegaard, Svenja Hahn

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 24 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

24 b. Requests the Commission, when assessing options for introducing new criteria in public procurement, to ensure particular attention is given to the stage at which such requirements are inserted within the procurement process; underlines that special attention should be paid to whether these criteria are included in the award criteria or at earlier stages of the procurement documents, ensuring legal clarity and practical feasibility for contracting authorities and economic operators;

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Amendment 702

Salvatore De Meo

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 24 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

24b. Believes that the public procurement system should change so that it can better address the supply chain challenges that electricity grid operators are facing, including increasing delivery times and costs; calls for public procurement procedures to be simplified, providing flexibility and efficiency for electricity grid operators; supports greater consistency among EU rules concerning public procurement;

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Amendment 703

Jeannette Baljeu, Ivars Ijabs, Yvan Verougstraete, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Morten Løkkegaard

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 24 c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

24 c. Highlights the need to use a harmonised definition of carbon footprint in order to streamline public procurement with existing legislation and apply appropriately the use of strategic sustainable criteria; considers that such a harmonised approach should exploit synergies with other methodologies already in place to avoid an accumulation of standards and unnecessary corporate reporting obligations; believes that the development of a common methodology should be based on internationally recognised standards;

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Amendment 704

Salvatore De Meo

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 24 c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

24c. Supports the goals of the Net-Zero Industry Act, the goal of which is to increase the EU’s production capacity in the area of clean technologies by 2040; highlights the need, in an effort to address shortages and rising costs, to press for diversified sourcing of critical technologies where market conditions require; calls, further, for the adoption of balanced measures to prevent disruptions to the global supply chain;

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Amendment 705

Jeannette Baljeu, Ivars Ijabs, Yvan Verougstraete, Sandro Gozi, Stéphanie Yon-Courtin, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Morten Løkkegaard, Svenja Hahn

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 24 d (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

24 d. Calls on the Commission for a streamlined and sound implementation of the resilience criteria stemming from the model of the Net Zero Industry Act in the revision of the public procurement legislation; stresses the application of the Net Zero Industry Act non-price criteria in public procurement should be consistent with the upcoming legislation of EU public procurement; points at the importance of encompassing the Net Zero Industry Act for reference for application of resilience criteria related to security of supply, contribution to the EU’s industrial leadership and competitiveness, adherence to cybersecurity standards and the significant dependency on a single third country not part of international procurement agreements;

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Amendment 706

Hanna Gedin, Leila Chaibi

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 25

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

25. Supports the modernisation of procurement criteria to reflect advancements in technology and security, ensuring that new procurement frameworks allow for agile responses to changing economic, environmental and geopolitical landscapes; notes that European competitiveness is built upon high social and environmental standards in the internal market; stresses that the future frameworks for public procurement should enhance these strengths, not diminish them, as to strengthen European actors in public procurement bids;

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Amendment 707

Salvatore De Meo

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 25

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

25. Supports the modernisation of procurement criteria to reflect advancements in technology and security, ensuring that new procurement frameworks allow for agile responses to changing economic and geopolitical landscapes; the achievement of these objectives entails specific costs, which, to ensure the sustainability and effectiveness of investments, must be included in an appropriate manner by the contracting authority in the overall assessment of project implementation costs;

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Amendment 708

Pierre Jouvet, Laura Ballarín Cereza, Elisabeth Grossmann, Idoia Mendia, François Kalfon, Estelle Ceulemans, Raphaël Glucksmann, Maria Guzenina, Brando Benifei, Pierfrancesco Maran

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 25

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

25. Supports the modernisation of procurement criteria to reflect advancements in technology, decarbonization, fair business practices, and security, ensuring that new procurement frameworks allow for agile responses to changing economic and geopolitical landscapes promoting social innovation and responsible trade;

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Amendment 709

Petr Bystron

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 25

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

25. Supports the modernisation of procurement criteria to reflect advancements in technology and security, ensuring that new procurement frameworks allow for agile responses to changing economic and geopolitical landscapes, while maintaining the autonomy of Member States in managing their procurement policies;

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Amendment 710

Maria Grapini

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 25

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

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Amendment 711

Jeannette Baljeu, Ivars Ijabs, Yvan Verougstraete, Sandro Gozi, Stéphanie Yon-Courtin, Nikola Minchev, Anna-Maja Henriksson, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Cynthia Ní Mhurchú, Morten Løkkegaard, Svenja Hahn

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 25 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

25 a. Welcomes the publication of the European Commission report entitled ‘SME needs analysis in Public Procurement’ (2021); notes that smaller enterprises, in particular micro enterprises and start-ups, face substantial constraints to accessing public procurement; recalls that key barriers which SMEs have indicated to face in public procurement include low trust in public procurers, high administrative burdens, linguistic barriers as well as tender documentation differences between Member States and the poor level of digital platforms related to public procurement;

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Amendment 712

Arba Kokalari

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 25 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

25 a. Supports the further digitalisation of public procurement processes, which will reduce administrative burdens, improve efficiency and competitiveness, enhance transparency and facilitate access for SMEs and cross-border bidders, while ensuring compliance with security standards;

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Amendment 713

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 25 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

25 b. Stresses the need to avoid unnecessary administrative burden for public buyers and economic operators, including SMEs and micro-enterprises; underlines that in revising EU public procurement legislation, complexity and cutting red tape should be considered at all times in order not to hinder the participation of economic operators in public procurement;

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Amendment 714

Pierre Jouvet, Laura Ballarín Cereza, Elisabeth Grossmann, Idoia Mendia, François Kalfon, Estelle Ceulemans, Raphaël Glucksmann, Maria Guzenina, Brando Benifei, Pierfrancesco Maran

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 26

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

26. Calls for enhanced SME support mechanisms to enable smaller businesses to effectively compete in public tenders, including a mandatory SME test on new rules, tailored financial instruments, technical assistance programmes and a reduction in bureaucratic constraints that disproportionately affect SME participation;

26. Calls for enhanced VSEs, SMEs and social economy actors support mechanisms to enable smaller businesses to effectively compete in public tenders, including a SME test on new rules, tailored financial instruments, reserved contracts for social enterprises, technical assistance programmes, including capacity building for SMEs and the widespread use of sourcing practices by public buyers prior to the design of tender calls, and a reduction in bureaucratic constraints that disproportionately affect SME participation and the systematic implementation of the principle of lotting in public procurement;

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Amendment 715

Anna Cavazzini, Reinier Van Lanschot, Katrin Langensiepen, Alexandra Geese

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 26

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

26. Calls for enhanced SME support mechanisms to enable smaller businesses and actors from the social economy to effectively compete in public tenders; believes that the new rules should include limitations to imposition of excessive “past-of-proof" requirements as part of the selection criteria, should include tailored financial instruments, rules on reserved contracts for social economy enterprises and technical assistance programmes for SMEs and social enterprises;

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Amendment 716

Salvatore De Meo

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 26

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

26. Calls for enhanced SME support mechanisms, particularly the use of subcontracting – as established in the judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union for Case 63/18 – to enable smaller businesses to effectively compete in public tenders, including a mandatory SME test on new rules, tailored financial instruments, technical assistance programmes and a reduction in bureaucratic constraints that disproportionately affect SME participation;

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Amendment 717

Dóra Dávid

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 26

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

26. Calls for enhanced SME support mechanisms to enable smaller businesses to effectively compete in public tenders, including a mandatory SME test on new rules, tailored financial instruments, technical assistance programmes, a reduction in bureaucratic constraints that disproportionately affect SME participation, and awareness raising to increase the number of participating SMEs and fair competition;

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Amendment 718

Sandro Gozi, Stéphanie Yon-Courtin

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 26

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

26. Calls for enhanced SME support mechanisms to enable smaller businesses to effectively compete in public tenders, including a mandatory SME test on new rules, the systematic implementation of the principle of lotting in public procurement, tailored financial instruments, technical assistance programmes and a reduction in bureaucratic constraints that disproportionately affect SME participation;

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Amendment 719

Regina Doherty, Christian Doleschal

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 26

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

26. Calls for enhanced SME support mechanisms to enable smaller businesses to effectively compete in public tenders, including a mandatory SME test and proper impact assessments by the Commission on any and all new rules, tailored financial instruments, technical assistance programmes and a reduction in bureaucratic constraints that disproportionately affect SME participation;

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Amendment 720

Christian Doleschal, Marion Walsmann, Daniel Caspary, Sebastião Bugalho, Regina Doherty, Gheorghe Falcă, Andreas Schwab, Zala Tomašič

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 26

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

26. Calls for enhanced SME and start-up support mechanisms to enable smaller businesses to effectively compete in public tenders, including a mandatory SME and start-up test on new rules, tailored financial instruments, technical assistance programmes and a reduction in bureaucratic constraints that disproportionately affect SME and start-up participation;

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Amendment 721

Stefano Cavedagna, Denis Nesci

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 26

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

26. Calls for enhanced SME support mechanisms, particularly the use of subcontracting, to enable smaller businesses to effectively compete in public tenders, including a mandatory SME test on new rules, tailored financial instruments, technical assistance programmes and a reduction in bureaucratic constraints that disproportionately affect SME participation;

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Amendment 722

Aura Salla

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 26

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

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Amendment 723

Hanna Gedin, Leila Chaibi

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 26

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

26. Calls for enhanced support mechanisms to enable smaller actors, including social economy organisations, to effectively compete in public tenders, tailored financial instruments, technical assistance programmes and a reduction in bureaucratic constraints that disproportionately affect participation from smaller actors;

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Amendment 724

Petr Bystron

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 26

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

26. Calls for enhanced SME support mechanisms to enable smaller businesses to effectively compete in public tenders, including a mandatory SME test on new rules, tailored financial instruments, technical assistance programmes and a reduction in EU-bureaucratic constraints that disproportionately affect SME participation;

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Amendment 725

Peter Agius

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 26 – point 1 (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

(1) Calls for concrete steps to empower SME participation in public procurement including measures to ensure effective access to remedies to operators contesting procurement decisions. In this context, the fees for recourse to remedies should be capped to reasonable limits not exceeding 0.25% of the estimated value of the procedure up to a maximum of 25,000 EUR.

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Amendment 726

Christian Doleschal, Marion Walsmann, Daniel Caspary, Sebastião Bugalho, Regina Doherty, Gheorghe Falcă, Andreas Schwab, Zala Tomašič

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 26 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

26 a. Recommends that the procurement framework should allow bidders and contracting authorities to submit missing evidence at a later stage in the procedure, simplifying and accelerating procurement processes, for example, through an expansion of Article 56(3) of Directive 2014/24/EU; recommends to promote the participation of start-ups and SMEs by adapting rigid reference requirements that disproportionately hinder young companies; calls for greater flexibility in qualification criteria to ensure fair access for start-ups to procurement opportunities while maintaining transparency and competition.

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Amendment 727

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 26 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

26 a. Calls on the Commission to ensure that public procurement processes are made more accessible and transparent by providing easily understandable summary tables or overviews of public tenders, which clearly outline the technical specifications and requirements of the procured work or service; requests the Commission to particularly consider enterprises with less experience, which should use the tools to better understand and interpret the procurement documents;

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Amendment 728

Pierre Jouvet, Laura Ballarín Cereza, Elisabeth Grossmann, Idoia Mendia, François Kalfon, Estelle Ceulemans, Raphaël Glucksmann, Maria Guzenina, Brando Benifei, Pierfrancesco Maran

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 26 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

26 a. Considers that environmental and social criteria, proportionate to company size and non-discriminatory for VSEs and SMEs, can enable local companies to highlight their specific features and virtuous practices; requests that these criteria be accompanied by suitable tools that are accessible to non-experts.

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Amendment 729

Pierre Jouvet, Laura Ballarín Cereza, Elisabeth Grossmann, Idoia Mendia, François Kalfon, Estelle Ceulemans, Raphaël Glucksmann, Maria Guzenina, Brando Benifei, Pierfrancesco Maran

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 27

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

27. Calls for the simplification of selection criteria where appropriate or suitable, and the creation of a digital database for pre-qualified SMEs and social economy actors to streamline their participation in public procurement; this should particularly benefit SMEs that are bound by collective agreements; accreditation systems are a possibility to determine companies’ technical, financial capacity but also professional integrity prior to the tender process; criteria of professional integrity should encompass fair and decent working conditions, compliance with human rights and environmental due diligence, clean records on social and employment aspects, respect of collective agreements, etc.; stresses that the EU public procurement framework must ensure equitable access for SMEs, social economy entities and local businesses by promoting simplified and accessible procedures, proportional requirements and the mandatory division of contracts into smaller lots, by trade/profession/, leniency towards joint bids to prevent dominance by large entities; calls for the possibility to give preference to VSEs, SMEs and innovative economic operators in case of equivalent offers and the possibility to reserve a minimum 30% share of public procurement contracts to be reserved for VSE and SME.

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Amendment 730

Dóra Dávid

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 27

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

27. Calls for the simplification of selection criteria and the creation of a digital database for pre-qualified SMEs to streamline their participation in public procurement; stresses that the EU public procurement framework must ensure equitable access for SMEs and local businesses by promoting simplified procedures, including by ensuring that companies need not re-submit in their tender application information that is already publicly available, proportional requirements and the mandatory division of contracts into smaller lots to prevent dominance by large entities, unless there is a genuine technological or efficiency justification for not dividing contracts; emphasises the need for clear criteria determining when non-division of contracts is justified to prevent the artificial creation of large contracts that exclude SMEs and facilitate political capture of procurement processes;

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Amendment 731

Stefano Cavedagna, Denis Nesci

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 27

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

27. Calls for the simplification of selection criteria and the creation of a digital database for pre-qualified SMEs to streamline their participation in public procurement; stresses that the EU public procurement framework must ensure equitable access for SMEs and local businesses by promoting simplified procedures, proportional requirements and the mandatory division of contracts into smaller lots to prevent dominance by large entities; action of that kind could support a mechanism for reserving a share of the contract for SMEs, so that they could still participate in tenders for an amount proportional to their turnover; supports, with a view to facilitating the participation of SMEs in the procurement market, the introduction of evaluation criteria that favour them, such as additional scores for sustainability, local job creation and innovation;

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Amendment 732

Salvatore De Meo

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 27

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

27. Calls for the simplification of selection criteria and the creation of a digital database for pre-qualified SMEs to streamline their participation in public procurement; stresses that the EU public procurement framework must ensure equitable access for SMEs and local businesses by promoting simplified procedures, proportional requirements and the mandatory division of contracts into smaller lots to prevent dominance by large entities; action of that kind would promote a system that reserves a share of the procurement to small enterprises, enabling them to participate in tenders in proportion to their turnover; supports, with a view to fostering the participation of SMEs, the introduction of evaluation criteria favourable to enterprises of that kind, such as the assignment of additional scores for sustainability, local job creation and innovation;

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Amendment 733

Pablo Arias Echeverría

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 27

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

27. Calls for the simplification of selection criteria and the creation of a digital database for pre-qualified SMEs to streamline their participation in public procurement; stresses that the EU public procurement framework must ensure equitable access for SMEs and local businesses by promoting simplified procedures, proportional requirements and the mandatory division of contracts into smaller lots to prevent dominance by large entities; recommends that national frameworks include independent audit authorities at all levels of government, with effective powers to audit and monitor public procurement processes, especially in those entities that manage EU funds and present a higher risk of discretion.

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Amendment 734

Hanna Gedin, Per Clausen, Leila Chaibi

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 27

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

27. Calls for the simplification of selection criteria and the creation of a digital database for pre-qualified smaller actors to streamline their participation in public procurement; stresses that the EU public procurement framework must ensure equitable access for organisations with collective bargaining agreements, SMEs, social economy organisations, and local businesses by promoting simplified procedures and proportional requirements based on the local context; reiterates that equitable access to public procurement procedures necessitates a simplification and clarification of rules for contracting authorities;

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Amendment 735

Arba Kokalari

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 27

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

27. Calls for the simplification of selection criteria and the creation of a digital database for pre-qualified SMEs to streamline their participation in public procurement; encourages the use of simple and standardised digital forms to reduce time-consuming and burdensome documentation requirements; stresses that the EU public procurement framework must ensure equitable access for SMEs and local businesses by promoting simplified procedures, proportional requirements, and the mandatory division of contracts into smaller lots to prevent dominance by large entities;

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Amendment 736

Christian Doleschal, Marion Walsmann, Daniel Caspary, Sebastião Bugalho, Gheorghe Falcă, Dirk Gotink, Andreas Schwab, Zala Tomašič

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 27

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

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Amendment 737

Petr Bystron

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 27

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

27. Calls for the simplification of selection criteria and the creation of a digital database for pre-qualified SMEs to streamline their participation in public procurement; stresses that public procurement frameworks should remain within the competence of Member States, ensuring fair and equal access for SMEs and national businesses by promoting simplified procedures, proportional requirements, and mandating the division of contracts into smaller lots to prevent the dominance of large entities and foster competition;

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Amendment 738

Klara Dostalova, Jaroslav Bžoch, Filip Turek

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 27

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

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Amendment 739

Anna Cavazzini, Reinier Van Lanschot, Katrin Langensiepen, Alexandra Geese

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 27

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

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Amendment 740

Sandro Gozi, Stéphanie Yon-Courtin, Jeannette Baljeu

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 27

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

27. Stresses that the EU public procurement framework must ensure equitable access for SMEs and local businesses by promoting simplified procedures, proportional requirements and the mandatory division of contracts into smaller lots to prevent dominance by large entities; suggests that preference could be given to SMEs and innovative economic operators in case of equivalent offers or could be implemented through reserved contracts or a reserved part of the contract performance;

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Amendment 741

Regina Doherty

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 27

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

27. Calls for the urgent simplification of selection criteria and the creation of a digital database for pre-qualified SMEs to streamline their participation in public procurement; stresses that the EU public procurement framework must ensure equitable access for SMEs and local businesses by promoting simplified procedures, proportional requirements and the mandatory division of contracts into smaller lots to prevent dominance by large entities;

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Amendment 742

Johan Danielsson, Adnan Dibrani, Pierfrancesco Maran

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 27 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

27 a. Recommends the establishment of national registers functioning as comprehensive “white lists” to systematically verify and monitor economic operators against robust exclusion and selection criteria; emphasises that such registers would significantly enhance the ability of contracting authorities to swiftly exclude unsuitable actors from procurement processes, including actors linked to criminal networks and hostile foreign actors, prevent labour exploitation and ensure reliable contract performance; underlines that effective interoperability and cross-border accessibility of these registers across Member States is essential to strengthen transparency, safeguard public funds, support the internal market and reinforce the security and integrity of critical public infrastructure and services;

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Amendment 743

Christian Doleschal, Marion Walsmann, Daniel Caspary, Regina Doherty, Gheorghe Falcă, Andreas Schwab, Zala Tomašič

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 27 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

27 a. Highlights that experience with public contracts, such as construction projects, shows that allowing alternative proposals (variant bids) helps contracting authorities procure services more innovatively, efficiently, and cost-effectively; emphasizes that innovative solutions are more easily integrated into procurement when variant bids are generally allowed, unless the contracting authority specifically decides to exclude them (opt-out). In order to effectively incorporate entrepreneurial know-how in the awarding of public contracts, alternative proposals (variant bids) should generally be allowed; calls upon the Commission to examine the permissibility of alternative proposals (variant bids) pursuant to Article 45(1) of Directive 2014/24;

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Amendment 744

Jeannette Baljeu, Ivars Ijabs, Yvan Verougstraete, Nikola Minchev, Anna-Maja Henriksson, Cynthia Ní Mhurchú, Morten Løkkegaard, Svenja Hahn

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 27 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

27 a. Calls on the Commission to ensure the ‘once only’ principle is applied consistently at all levels of administration in public procurement, so that bidders only have to provide certain standard information to the authorities and administrations once in order to reduce administrative burdens; underlines that bidders should be exempt from submitting numerous administrative and supporting documents during the first step of the tender evaluation process and should instead be provided with the opportunity to meet participation requirements through a self-declaration of compliance with the necessary criteria, ensuring that only the successful tenderer is required to submit the full set of supporting documents;

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Amendment 745

Andreas Schwab

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 27 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

27 a. Suggests that preference could be given to SMEs and innovative market operators in case of equivalent offers or could be implemented through reserved contracts or a reserved part of the contract performance;

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Amendment 746

Kateřina Konečná

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 27 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

27 a. Calls for a stricter regulation of subcontracting, including by ensuring equal treatment, introducing joint and several liability and a limit to the length of the chain;

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Amendment 747

Jeannette Baljeu, Ivars Ijabs, Yvan Verougstraete, Sandro Gozi, Stéphanie Yon-Courtin, Nikola Minchev, Anna-Maja Henriksson, Cynthia Ní Mhurchú, Morten Løkkegaard, Svenja Hahn

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 27 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

27 b. Calls on the Commission to reduce administrative burdens by promoting provisions in public procurement legislation which urge contracting authorities to not ask more information than necessary for the specific tender from businesses; underlines that flexibility should be considered when requesting track records of contracts from SMEs;

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Amendment 748

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 27 c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

27 c. Calls on the Member States to consider developing a public-private partnership and dialogue in public procurement in order to improve the efficiency of procurement processes and the cooperation between public authorities and businesses; believes that more guidance and support for SMEs is crucial in order to advance their participation in public procurement; underlines therefore that such dialogue initiatives would provide opportunities for SMEs to gain better knowledge of public procurement principles while public procurers could benefit by collecting information to design more balanced criteria and reduce administrative burdens; signals the need for supporting SMEs to identify partners;

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Amendment 749

Anna Cavazzini, Reinier Van Lanschot, Katrin Langensiepen, Alexandra Geese

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 28

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

28. Supports contract pricing flexibility through the introduction of provisions that allow price adjustments in response to inflation, material cost increases and changes in labour laws, ensuring contract viability without imposing financial strain on public authorities;

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Amendment 750

Stefano Cavedagna, Denis Nesci

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 28

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

28. Supports contract pricing flexibility through the introduction of provisions that allow price adjustments and adjustments to labour costs as a result of wage agreements signed by employers' and trade union organisations which are comparatively more representative at national level in response to inflation, material cost increases and changes in labour laws, ensuring contract viability without imposing financial strain on public authorities; calls for contracting entities to include in their invitations to tender, for every type of public contract, a system for reviewing prices when particular conditions of an objective nature arise, including changes in costs as a result of the renewal of national collective labour agreements; calls for contractual balance to be maintained with renegotiation clauses specified in the contract;

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Amendment 751

Sandro Gozi, Stéphanie Yon-Courtin

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 28

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

28. Supports increasing the flexibility given to public buyers, especially in contract pricing, through the extension of the maximum duration of framework agreements for contracting authorities, the introduction of provisions that allow price adjustments, including in response to inflation, material cost increases and changes in labour laws, ensuring contract viability without imposing financial strain on public authorities, and the extension of the negotiated procedure as the principle for all contracts, including contracts subsequent to a framework agreement; suggests, in that regard, the application of common public procurement provisions to both contracting authorities and contracting entities, based on the flexibility given by Directive 2014/25/EC;

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Amendment 752

Pierfrancesco Maran, Brando Benifei, Cecilia Strada, Raffaele Topo

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 28

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

28. Supports contract pricing flexibility through the introduction of provisions that allow price adjustments, resulting from wage agreements signed by the employers' and trade union organisations that are comparatively more representative at national level, in response to inflation, material cost increases and changes in labour laws, ensuring contract viability without imposing financial strain on public authorities;

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Amendment 753

Pierre Jouvet, Laura Ballarín Cereza, Elisabeth Grossmann, Idoia Mendia, François Kalfon, Estelle Ceulemans, Raphaël Glucksmann, Maria Guzenina, Brando Benifei, Pierfrancesco Maran

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 28

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

28. Supports automatic contract modification, contract pricing flexibility through the introduction of provisions that allow price adjustments in response to cost increases that the bidder could not reasonably have anticipated, such as inflation, material or energy cost increases and changes in labour laws, ensuring contract viability without imposing financial strain on public authorities;

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Amendment 754

Salvatore De Meo

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 28

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

28. Supports contract pricing flexibility through the introduction of provisions that allow price adjustments and adjustments on account of labour costs arising from wage agreements among the main national employers' and trade union organisations in response to inflation, material cost increases and changes in labour laws, ensuring contract viability;

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Amendment 755

Petr Bystron

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 28

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

28. Supports contract pricing flexibility through the introduction of provisions that allow price adjustments in response to inflation, material cost increases and changes in labour laws, ensuring contract viability while preventing undue financial strain on public authorities and protecting taxpayers' interests;

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Amendment 756

Stefano Cavedagna, Denis Nesci

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 28 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

28a. Calls for greater flexibility in public procurement procedures, giving contracting authorities the ability to negotiate both technical and economic terms during tenders and providing more scope for crucial adjustments as projects go on, particularly infrastructure and technology projects; for the increased costs, procuring entities must use the resources set aside for unforeseen events and any additional funds available for the same intervention or use the sums arising from tender reductions;

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Amendment 757

Piotr Müller

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 28 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

28 a. Calls on the Member States to systematically make use of existing instruments, including the International Procurement Instrument, to counteract unfair competition from non-EU countries and to apply reciprocity measures in a simplified and coordinated manner within the EU procurement framework, in order to guarantee fair access for EU businesses and respond effectively to discriminatory practices in third-country public tenders;

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Amendment 758

Sandro Gozi, Stéphanie Yon-Courtin, Jeannette Baljeu

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 28 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

28 a. Highlights that in order to promote greater efficiency and simplification the provisions relating to grounds for exclusion should be streamlined through an exhaustive list and a clear distinction between mandatory grounds for exclusion, intended to protect a public interest, and optional grounds for exclusion, intended to protect the interests of the contracting authorities or entities;

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Amendment 759

Jeannette Baljeu, Ivars Ijabs, Yvan Verougstraete, Sandro Gozi, Stéphanie Yon-Courtin, Nikola Minchev, Anna-Maja Henriksson, Morten Løkkegaard, Svenja Hahn

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 28 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

28 a. Calls on the Member States to allow for variants in public procurement; considers that variants provide for flexibility in public procurement and can encourage the use of new techniques and innovative products; underlines therefore that variants should be allowed, unless otherwise specified by the contracting authority in the tender notice;

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Amendment 760

Stefano Cavedagna, Denis Nesci

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 28 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

28b. Hopes that the Commission will promote and strengthen the use of structured forms of public-private partnerships, in the form of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs), in particular, through the project financing instrument, a 'procedural module' (rather than a contractual typology proper), designed to find proposals from private entities that take full responsibility for the costs and risk of carrying out and managing public works, with the option to repay investments supported by the use of the work itself, in line with a typical public-private partnership. project financing is a financial operation based on the economic viability of an initiative, with the capacity to ensure the return of capital invested through the cash flows generated by the management of the service or work, in keeping with the principles of efficiency, cost-effectiveness and sound management; this instrument would further facilitate the disbursement of private capital, including international capital, attracting external investments and the transfer of technical and management expertise, with significant benefits as regards design quality, operational efficiency and technological innovation, although it should be made clear that public authorities must always be able to make assessments, on a case-by-case basis, within the scope of their discretionary power, concerning whether or not to use forms of partnership of that kind instead of the more traditional procurement instrument;

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Amendment 761

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 28 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

28 b. Highlights the need to remove overly restrictive measures, such as excessive financial capacity requirements or barriers to adopting innovative alternatives to established solutions, with the aim to prevent disproportionate burdens on innovative start-ups and scale-ups;

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Amendment 762

Piotr Müller

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 28 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

28 b. Calls on the Commission to engage in firm negotiations with relevant international regulatory bodies, including those governing public procurement under international trade agreements, to advocate for a significant increase in procurement thresholds;

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Amendment 763

Pierre Jouvet, Laura Ballarín Cereza, Elisabeth Grossmann, Idoia Mendia, François Kalfon, Estelle Ceulemans, Raphaël Glucksmann, Maria Guzenina, Brando Benifei, Pierfrancesco Maran

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 29

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

29. Calls for the establishment of special procurement rules for scientific research and innovation projects, recognising their critical role in driving economic and technological progress;

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Amendment 764

Kateřina Konečná

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 29

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

29. Calls for the establishment of special procurement rules for scientific research and innovation projects, recognising their critical role in driving economic and technological progress;

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Amendment 765

Hanna Gedin, Leila Chaibi

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 29

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

29. Calls for the establishment of special procurement rules for scientific research and innovation projects, recognising their critical role in driving economic and technological progress;

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Amendment 766

Jeannette Baljeu, Ivars Ijabs, Yvan Verougstraete, Sandro Gozi, Stéphanie Yon-Courtin, Nikola Minchev, Anna-Maja Henriksson, Cynthia Ní Mhurchú, Morten Løkkegaard, Svenja Hahn

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 29

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

29. Calls for the establishment of special procurement rules for scientific research and innovation projects, recognising their critical role in driving economic and technological progress;

29. Calls for the establishment of special procurement rules for scientific research and innovation projects, recognising their critical role in driving economic and technological progress; signals the need for additional and solid provisions protecting the intellectual property rights of bidders, including during the tendering process;

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Amendment 767

Anna Cavazzini, Reinier Van Lanschot, Katrin Langensiepen, Alexandra Geese

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 29

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

29. Calls for the establishment of special procurement rules for scientific research and innovation projects, recognising their critical role in driving economic and technological progress;

29. Notes that the rules on innovation procurement remain underused; calls for evaluating the need to further establish special procurement rules for scientific research and innovation projects, recognising their critical role in driving economic and technological progress;

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Amendment 768

Petr Bystron

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 29

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

29. Calls for the establishment of special procurement rules for scientific research and innovation projects, recognising their critical role in driving economic and technological progress;

29. Calls for the establishment of special procurement rules for scientific research and innovation projects, recognising their critical role in driving economic growth and technological advancement, while ensuring efficient use of public resources;

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Amendment 769

Hanna Gedin, Per Clausen, Leila Chaibi

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 29 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

29 a. Recognises that multiple layers of subcontracting weaken accountability, heighten the risk of labour rights violations, exert downward pressure on working conditions along the subcontracting chain, and obstruct effective enforcement; maintains that public procurement rules should encourage the creation of direct jobs and require companies to have adequate in-house staff to carry out the projects for which they are awarded public contracts; urges the Commission to adopt stricter rules on subcontracting, including safeguards for equal treatment of subcontracted workers, the introduction of dissuasive sanctions, and the possibility for Member States to uphold or introduce more protective national measures for workers; calls on the Commission, with the aim of strengthening transparency and accountability throughout the supply chain, to limit subcontracting to two levels and to require mandatory disclosure of subcontractors and the proportion of the contract intended for subcontracting, as well as to ensure that contractors bear full responsibility for their subcontractors; further calls for the establishment of joint and several liability between economic operators and subcontractors in the event of violations of labour laws or collective agreements;

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Amendment 770

Anna Cavazzini, Reinier Van Lanschot, Katrin Langensiepen, Alexandra Geese

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 29 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

29 a. Believes that the professionalisation of public purchasers should be part of improving public procurement methods within the EU; welcomes national initiatives aiming at helping public purchasers to familiarize themselves with the existing legal framework and concepts such as defining the subject-matter and design appropriate selection and award criteria; asks the Commission to develop and promote similar programs at EU level with a focus on making better use of non-price criteria by establishing “ready-to-use" environmental and social criteria;

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Amendment 771

Pierfrancesco Maran, Brando Benifei, Cecilia Strada, Raffaele Topo

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 29 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

29 a. Supports the upholding of the legal framework for the procurement of social services and urges the Commission to revise the current framework to make the criteria listed in Article 76(2) of Directive 2014/24/EU binding for awarding contracts for social and health services, ensuring respect for the dignity of end users;

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Amendment 772

Pierfrancesco Maran, Brando Benifei, Raffaele Topo

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 29 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

29 b. With the aim to simplify procurement rules and enhance competitiveness in the context of liberalized rail and transport services, both public and private rail operators, competing on equal terms in competitive tendering procedures for liberalized rail services, should be treated equally;

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Amendment 773

Hanna Gedin, Per Clausen, Leila Chaibi

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 29 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

29 b. Believes that primary contractors and subcontractors, including their subsidiaries, that engage in unfair competition, commit tax fraud or are in breach of their obligations with regard to applicable environmental, labour and social standards should be excluded from public contracts;

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Amendment 774

Hanna Gedin, Per Clausen, Leila Chaibi

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 29 c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

29 c. Calls on the Commission to examine the possibility of facilitating a European blacklist of companies who have breached their obligations, including their subcontractors, which could foster an equal playing field among European companies and release administrative burden to the administrations of the contracting authority;

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Amendment 775

Sandro Gozi, Stéphanie Yon-Courtin

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 30

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

30. Supports a framework, similar to the Internal Market Emergency and Resilience Act, for robust emergency procurement measures that enables rapid response mechanisms for critical supply shortages, ensuring that procurement rules allow for accelerated processes and for more flexibility to the contracting authorities with regard to the award procedures and the modification of their contracts without compromising competition and transparency; suggests, a list of optional and mandatory criteria to be set out in the Directive; the mandatory criteria should be applicable in particular in the event of emergency, concentration of supply outside of the European Union, or lack of domestic supply; highlights that the provisions of the article 25 of the Net Zero Industry Act could serve as an example in order to design resilience criteria; suggests the introduction of exclusion grounds based on violations by any economic operator of his obligations regarding security of information or security of supply during a previous contract;

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Amendment 776

Dóra Dávid

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 30

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

30. Supports a framework for robust emergency procurement measures that enables rapid response mechanisms for critical supply shortages, ensuring that procurement rules allow for accelerated processes without compromising competition and transparency; emphasises that such frameworks to be created need to allow for sufficient flexibility to support a risk-based decision making process that may deviate from the standard models and processes. At a minimum, a risk-based emergency procurement process needs to be clearly specified in advance of the emerging need, and be based on sound, demonstrable, value-oriented judgment which needs to be consistently upheld during the tender award, with clearly established transparency and accountability for every decision so made;

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Amendment 777

Pablo Arias Echeverría

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 30

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

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Amendment 778

Dirk Gotink

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 30

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

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Amendment 779

Petr Bystron

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 30

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

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Amendment 780

Andreas Schwab

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 30

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

30. Supports a framework, inspired by the Internal Market Emergency and Resilience Act, for robust emergency procurement measures that enables rapid response mechanisms for critical supply shortages, ensuring that procurement rules allow for accelerated processes without compromising competition and transparency;

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Amendment 781

Anna Cavazzini, Reinier Van Lanschot, Katrin Langensiepen, Alexandra Geese

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 30

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

30. Supports a framework for robust emergency procurement measures that enables rapid response mechanisms for critical supply shortages, as well as robust and simple joint procurement mechanisms, ensuring that procurement rules allow for accelerated processes without compromising competition and transparency;

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Amendment 782

Pierre Jouvet, Laura Ballarín Cereza, Elisabeth Grossmann, Idoia Mendia, François Kalfon, Estelle Ceulemans, Raphaël Glucksmann, Maria Guzenina, Brando Benifei, Pierfrancesco Maran

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 30

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

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Amendment 783

Klara Dostalova, Jaroslav Bžoch, Filip Turek, Virginie Joron

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 30

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

30. Supports a framework for more robust emergency procurement measures that enables rapid response mechanisms for critical supply shortages, ensuring that procurement rules allow for accelerated processes without compromising competition and transparency;

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Amendment 784

Adnan Dibrani, Christel Schaldemose, Johan Danielsson, Maria Guzenina

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 30 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

30 a. Highlights the crucial contribution of non-profit organisations, churches and social enterprises in public procurement all around Europe, noting their expertise, strong local connections, and demonstrated capacity to deliver services of high quality; stresses the importance of maintaining and promoting reserved contracts as a powerful instrument to ensure that public procurement supports broader societal objectives, the social economy and the diversity of actors involved; calls, therefore, for strengthening the existing possibility for Member States and contracting authorities to reserve participation in public procurement procedures specifically to actors operating on a non-profit basis;

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Amendment 785

Piotr Müller

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 30 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

30 a. Calls for enhanced synergies between the Late Payment Directive and public procurement rules, in particular more widespread use of the option laid down in Article 71(3) of the Public Procurement Directive of enabling direct payment to subcontractors; calls on the Member States to ensure the transparency and traceability of payments by public authorities to contractors and sub-contractors, and of payments by the contractor to its sub-contractors or suppliers;

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Amendment 786

Jeannette Baljeu, Ivars Ijabs, Yvan Verougstraete, Nikola Minchev, Anna-Maja Henriksson, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Morten Løkkegaard

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 30 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

30 a. Encourages the Commission to explore the option of adopting a Regulation instead of a Directive in the context of European public procurement legislation, with the aim of enhancing harmonisation and legal certainty across the internal market;

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Amendment 787

Christian Doleschal, Marion Walsmann, Daniel Caspary, Sebastião Bugalho, Regina Doherty, Gheorghe Falcă, Dirk Gotink, Andreas Schwab, Zala Tomašič

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 30 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

30 a. Calls on the Commission to review and assess sector-specific procurement rules and streamline them to reduce unnecessary burdens on contracting authorities while ensuring transparency, efficiency, and flexibility;

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Amendment 788

Dóra Dávid

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 30 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

30 a. Recommends to ensure that only companies genuinely engaged in real activities related to the procurement project may participate in the tender;

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Amendment 789

Jeannette Baljeu, Ivars Ijabs, Yvan Verougstraete, Sandro Gozi, Stéphanie Yon-Courtin, Nikola Minchev, Anna-Maja Henriksson, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Morten Løkkegaard

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 30 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

30 b. Calls on the Commission to update its tools for monitoring competition in public procurement; considers that by refining the methodologies and technologies for market analysis, incorporating advanced data analytics and artificial intelligence, the EU should strive to promote a more competitive, transparent and equitable procurement environment; believes such actions can contribute to understanding the issue of low competition in public procurement better, as well as to shaping new proposals which can better simplify accessibility to tenders for enterprises;

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