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6 Amendments of Thomas ULMER related to 2013/0028(COD)

Amendment 97 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15 a (new)
(15a) It must still be possible to employ direct award procedures, for example in cases where the specific characteristics of the contract in question are likely to deter a sufficient number of bidders from taking part.
2013/09/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 161 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – point 2
Regulation (EC) No. 1370/2007
Article 2 a (new) – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point b
basic requirements to be fulfilled by public transport offer such as accessibility for persons with disabilities, territorial connectivity, security, modal and intermodal interconnections at main connecting hubs, offer characteristics such as times of operation, frequency of services and minimum degree of capacity utilisation;
2013/09/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 297 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – point 4 – point a
Regulation (EC) No 1370/2007
Article 5 – paragraph 4
(a) Paragraph 4 is replaced by the following: Unless prohibited by national law, the competent authorities may decide to award public service contracts directly: (a) where their average annual value is estimated at: less than EUR 1 000 000 or less than EUR 5 000 000 in the case of a public service contract including public transport by rail or, (b) where they concern the annual provision of less than 300 000 kilometres of public passenger transport services or less than 150 000 kilometres in the case of a public service contract including public transport by rail. In the case of a public service contract directly awarded to a small or medium- sized enterprise operating not more than 23 road vehicles, these thresholds may be increased to either an average annual value estimated at less than EUR 2 000 000 or to an annual provision of less than 600 000 kilometres of public passenger transport services.deleted
2013/09/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 320 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – point 4 – point a
Regulation (EC) No 1370/2007
Article 5 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2
In the case of a public service contract directly awarded to a small or medium- sized enterprise operating not more than 2350 road vehicles, these thresholds may be increased to either an average annual value estimated at less than EUR 2 000 000 or to an annual provision of less than 600 000 kilometres of public passenger transport services.
2013/09/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 340 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – point 4 – point b a (new)
Regulation (EC) No 1370/2007
Article 5 – paragraph 6 a (new)
The following paragraph 6a is inserted: If the competent authority awards a public transport service contract directly, it shall publish at least nine months prior to the start of the contract a statement explaining how this award method guarantees enforceability, efficiency and quality. This statement shall also be forwarded to the independent national regulator, for information.
2013/09/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 411 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 point 8 – point c Regulation (EC) No. 1370/2007

Article 8 – paragraph 3
(c) In paragraph 3, the last sentence of the second subparagraph is replaced by the following: ‘The contracts referred to in (d) may continue until they expire, provided they are of limited duration similar to the durations specified in Article 4.’deleted
2013/09/23
Committee: TRAN