10 Amendments of Emilie TURUNEN related to 2011/2048(INI)
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that public procurement is a key market based instrument which plays a role in fostering sustainable employment and working conditions; underlines in this context that public authorities should, as a general rule, include among the selection criteria clauses asking for the respect of wages and working conditions as set out by law or collective agreements;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Supports the encouragement of social procurement within the field of goods, e.g. by using fair trade criteria;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Recognises the significance of the GPA, which mayight limit the scope of any legislative adjustments at EU level as a number of procedural requirements originate directly from GPA but stresses that public procurement rules are, in certain areas, even more restrictive than under GPA; calls on the Commission to seek more flexibility in the rules so as to ensure that social procurement is allowable;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Recognises that contracting authorities have an important role in using their purchasing power to procure goods and services with higher ‘societal’ value; recognises also that public authorities can make an important contribution to the achievement of the EU2020 targets by fostering innovation, creating jobs, promote social inclusion, fighting climate change and including young people in education and training within the context of public procurement;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Underlines the importance of including skills and training requirements, e.g. apprenticeship and traineeships schemes or adult learning schemes, in contract specifications as a long term strategy; stresses however, that these actions must be relevant to the subject matter of the contract, and be proportionate, economically advantageous and take into account the total life cost;
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Underlines that a change in procurement practices should seek to simplify procurement rules and thus facilitate socially innovative public procurement; points to the need for legal certainty to encourage innovative and social procurement solutions and remove the fear of negative legal consequences; underlines, in this context, that public authorities must be allowed to apply higher criteria than EU minimum rules;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Underlines the great social and environmental potential in abandoning the simplistic “lowest price” paradigm and shift to a more clever life-cycle cost approach with the term “most economically advantageous”;
Amendment 77 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
Amendment 82 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Underlines that whether or not a product or service has been sustainable produced is rightly considered as a characteristic of the product which can be compared and contrasted with products or services that have not been sustainable produced; points out that the scope for including requirements regarding the production process in the technical specifications for all types of contracts should be clarified to enable contracting authorities to control the environmental and social impact of contracts awarded by them; stresses that, especially regarding social and health services but also working conditions, the production process is an important element when it comes to assessing the product;