1 Amendments of Birgit SCHNIEBER-JASTRAM related to 2011/0438(COD)
Amendment 69 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 5 a (new)
Recital 5 a (new)
(5a) Public procurement accounts for approximately 19% of global GDP, or almost 40 times the amount provided by EU Member States as Official Development Assistance (ODA). As such it has huge potential to be a tool for living up to the EU's obligations towards Policy Coherence for development as enshrined in Article 208 TFEU and for implementing sustainable government policies both in the Union and in developing countries.