Activities of Malcolm HARBOUR related to 2013/2125(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the European Defence Technological and Industrial Base
Amendments (2)
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that greater use of innovative procurement techniques – especially including those related to the aggregation of requie- procurement, and pre-commercial procurements, use of ICT andas well as incentives-setting for R&D – should be encouraged in defence procurement, as they may be particularly suited to this field and can play a major role in reducing the administration and costs related to procurement procedures;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Considers that contracting authorities and entities in the fields of defence and security should have access to a specific procurement procedure in respect of contracts where there is a need for the development of an innovative product or service or innovative works and the subsequent purchase of the resulting supplies, services or works which cannot be met by solutions already available on the market; considers furthermore that such a procedure would improve the functioning of the internal market and the development of a European defence equipment market, a European defence technological and industrial base and would drive growth for innovative SMEs; underlines that such a procedure has already been agreed in the revised Classic and Utilities Procurement Directives, allowing contracting authorities to establish a long-term innovation partnership for the development and subsequent purchase of new, innovative products, services or works, providing the necessary 'market-pull' and incentivising the development of an innovative solution without foreclosing the market; calls therefore on the European Commission to take these developments into account in its implementation report to the European Parliament and the Council under Defence Procurement Directive (Directive 2009/81/EC), which is due by 21 August 2016, and to accompany this report with a legislative proposal amending Directive 2009/81/EC, introducing the innovation partnerships procedure for those contracts;