16 Amendments of Pina PICIERNO related to 2017/2278(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas public procurement involves the spending of a considerable amount of taxpayers’ money, meaning that taxpayers expect this procurement to be carried out with transparency and integrity in the most efficient way, in terms of both costs and quality delivered, in order to provide quality goods and services to citizens;
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas the intelligent use of public procurement can address challenges such as climate change, resource scarcity, inequalities or ageing societies by supporting social policies, accelerating the transition to more sustainable supply chains and business models;
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas public procurement is a strategic tool used to reach the EU’s goals of green and socially inclusive growth;
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas public procurement may be a useful tool in the service of a stronger single market, social inclusion, the fight against social and environmental dumping, and for the growth of EU companies and jobs in the Union;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas it is of crucial importance that suppliers trust that the Union’s public procurement systems offer simple and accessible, digital procedures, full transparency, integrity and security of data;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to finalise swiftly the Guidance on Public Procurement of Innovation and the Guide on socially responsible public procurement, in order to facilitate the implementation of the respective legal provisions in the Member States and especially the use of the most economically advantageous tender as the main award criterion; in this regard, calls on the Commission to clarify that this does not mean the lowest price;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls for the extensive use of innovative procurement to implement green and socially inclusive growth;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Member States to use public procurement strategically in order to promote a sustainable, circular and socially responsible economy, as well as employment, innovation, SME and social economy enterprises growth and competition; underlines that this requires Member States to systematically signal such policies at the highest level and support, to this end, procurers and practitioners in the public administration;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Calls on regional and local authorities to establish a procurement strategy which defines how the procurement plans of the authority, within a timeframe of the upcoming five years, will support the strategic goal of green and socially inclusive growth; calls upon Union institutions, Member States and central and local government authorities to ensure that contracting authorities have a comprehensive procurement strategy in place and it is carried out at the level of each procurement entity; as part of this process public hearings and consultations with the end users of products and services should be arranged;
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Calls on Member States to ensure that public procurement practices are in line with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and that persons with disabilities are consulted on all procurement processes and decisions that impact them or are done to procure services for them; calls on Member States to ensure that the judicial remedy of persons with disabilities is guaranteed in public procurement processes that directly impact them;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Calls for the adoption of a European Code of Ethics for Public Procurement for the various actors in the procurement process, in particular to ensure compliance with social and environmental standards;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 b (new)
Paragraph 11 b (new)
11b. Underlines the importance of establishing a transparent dialogue with civil society, including trade unions and representatives of disabled people, with the aim of creating better analytical tools to develop policies that correspond to the real needs of society;
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Recalls that the Union public procurement legislative framework obliges Member States to ensure that contractors and subcontractors fully comply with the environmental, social and labour law provisions which apply at the place where the works are executed, services provided or goods produced or supplied, as set out in the applicable international conventions, in Union and national law as well as in collective agreements concluded in accordance with national law and practices; calls on the Commission to guarantee that this obligation is fulfilled by Member States in the transposition and application of the 2014 directives and to facilitate the exchange of best practices in this area;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Calls on the Commission to develop and adopt into use common Life Cycle indicators relating to the life cycle of a product or works or the provision of a service, measuring all aspects relating to environmental protection, working conditions, labour rights, equality, social inclusion, human rights, impacts on adjacent communities, and ethical trade; calls on the adoption of these indicators to guide choices made in the production or other non-use phases of the life cycle of the product, even if such characteristics are not apparent in the physical characteristics or functional qualities of the resulting product or service;
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Regrets that the Member States underuse the possibilities offered by public procurement to adopt social criteria and measures as strategic instruments to promote sustainable social policy objectives;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)
Paragraph 13 b (new)
13b. Calls on Member States to introduce systems of joint and several liability for the subcontracting chains in public procurements; asks the Commission to propose the introduction of such a system in the European Union public procurement legislative framework, at least with regard to the compliance of contractors and subcontractors with environmental, social and labour law provisions;