7 Amendments of Pilar del CASTILLO VERA related to 2011/0438(COD)
Amendment 27 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 1
Recital 1
(1) The award of public contracts by or on behalf of Member States authorities has to comply with the principles of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular the free movement of goods, freedom of establishment and the freedom to provide services as well as the principles deriving therefrom, such as equal treatment, non-discrimination, mutual recognition, proportionality, openness and transparency. However, for public contracts above a certain value, provisions should be drawn up coordinating national procurement procedures so as to ensure that these principles are given practical effect and public procurement is opened up to competition, always ensuring that public funds are used effectively.
Amendment 74 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 41
Recital 41
(41) Furthermore, in technical specifications and in award criteria, contracting authorities should be allowed to refer to a specific production process, a specific mode of provision of services, or a specific process for any other stage of the life cycle of a product or service, provided that they are linked to the subject-matter of the public contract. In order to better integrate social considerations in public procurement, procurers may also be allowed to include, in the award criterimplementing conditions of the most economically advantageous tendercontract, characteristics related to the working conditions of the persons directly participating in the process of production or provision in question. Those characteristics may only concern the protection of health of the staff involved in the production process or the favouring of social integration of disadvantaged persons or members of vulnerable groups amongst the persons assigned to performing the contract, including accessibility for persons with disabilities. Any award criteriaimplementing conditions which include those characteristics should in any event remain limited to characteristics that have immediate consequences on staff members in their working environment. They should be applied in accordance with Directive 96/71/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 1996 concerning the posting of workers in the framework of the provision of services and in a way that does not discriminate directly or indirectly against economic operators from other Member States or from third countries parties to the Agreement or to Free Trade Agreements to which the Union is party. For service contracts and for contracts involving the design of works, contracting authorities should also be allowed to use as an award criterion the organisation, qualification and experience of the staff assigned to performing the contract in question, as this may affect the quality of contract performance and, as a result, the economic value of the tender and may therefore have a direct bearing on the subject-matter of the contract.
Amendment 77 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 43
Recital 43
(43) Contract performance conditions are compatible with this Directive provided that they are not directly or indirectly discriminatory, are linkdirectly related to the subject- matter of the contract and are indicated in the contract notice, the prior information notice used as a means of calling for competition or the procurement documents. They may, in particular, be intended to favour on-site vocational training, the employment of people experiencing particular difficulty in achieving integration, the fight against unemployment, protection of the environment or animal welfare. For instance, mention may be made, amongst other things, of the requirements — applicable during performance of the contract — to recruit long-term job-seekers or to implement training measures for the unemployed or young persons, to comply in substance with fundamental International Labour Organisation (ILO) Conventions, even where such Conventions have not been implemented in national law, and to recruit more disadvantaged persons than are required under national legislation.
Amendment 98 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 15 – paragraph 1
Article 15 – paragraph 1
Contracting authorities shall treat economic operators equally and without discrimination and shall act in a transparent and proportionate wain accordance with the principles of equality, non-discrimination, free competition and openness. They shall also act in a transparent and proportionate way, always ensuring that public funds are used effectively.
Amendment 152 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 46 – paragraph 1
Article 46 – paragraph 1
1. Contracting authorities mayshall make known their intentions of planned procurements through the publication of a prior information notice as soon as possible after the beginning of the budgetary year. Those notices shall contain the information set out in Annex VI part B section I. They shall be published either by the Commission or by the contracting authorities on their buyer profiles in accordance with point 2(b) of Annex IX. Where the notice is published by the contracting authorities on their buyer profile, they shall send a notice of the publication on their buyer profile in accordance with point 3 of Annex IX.
Amendment 155 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 47 – paragraph 1
Article 47 – paragraph 1
All contracting authorities mayshall use a contract notice as a means of calling for competition in respect of all procedures. Such notices shall contain the information set out in Annex VI part C and shall be published in accordance with Article 49.
Amendment 168 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 56 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3
Article 56 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3
Contracting authorities shall limit any conditions for participation to those that are appropriate to ensure that a candidate or tenderer has the legal and financial capacities and the commercial and technical abilities to perform the contract to be awarded. All requirements shall be directly related and strictly proportionate to the subject-matter of the contract, taking into account the need to ensure genuine competition.