3 Amendments of Jan OLBRYCHT related to 2009/2175(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 2
2. Stresses that the Court of Auditors regularly indicateds in its annual reports on the implementation of the EU budget, as well as in the latest Annual Report on the financial year 2008, that failure to comply with EU procurement rules is one of the two most common reasons for refusing EU financing fromcauses of errors and irregularities in the implementation of European projects co-financed by the Structural Funds and the Social Fund; highlights, in this context, that irregularities are often caused by improper transposition and the more stringentof EU rules and differences in the rules applied by Member States; calls on the Commission and the Member States to revise, in cooperation with regional and local authorities, the various sets of rules applicable to public procurement for the various actions and programmes implemented under the Structural Funds in order to unify those rules and simplify the whole legal framework for public procurement, in particular with a view to reducing the risk of errors and increasing efficiency in the use of Structural Funds;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
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3. Considers that it is not only costs and complexity which can be prohibitive, but also the time needed to complete the public procurement process, not least becausein particular the lengthy appeal procedures are obstructed by various actors, and hence welcomes the fact that the recovery plan makes it possible to apply accelerated versions of the procedures outlined in the public procurement directives to major public projects specifically in 2009 and 2010; calls on the Member States to support and assist local authorities in using these new procedures, in each case in compliance with the standard public procurement rules and regulations;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Deplores the fact that in some cases Structural Fund allocations for infrastructure projects undertaken in the context of a Public Private Partnership (PPP) and related contracts with private operators based on public procurement carried out at sub-national level have, as a result of very complex procurement procedures, led to a loss of European Union subsidies previously available to fund infrastructure development; believes that it is vital to remove obstacles to and establish clear rules for PPPs if the European Union wants to have any chance of making the necessary investments in infrastructure and quality services; calls on the Commission to ensure that public procurement and Structural Fund implementation rules set a clear framework for PPPs in order to create legal certainty for all stakeholders and reduce the pressure on public budgets, in the context of the principle of co-financing and in the aftermath of the global economic crisis;