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1 Amendments of Philippe JUVIN related to 2009/2175(INI)

Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 i (new)
15i. Calls on the Commission to step up its efforts to prevent the discrimination suffered by European SMEs under discriminatory measures imposed by certain parties to the WTO Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA), such as Canada and the United States; in particular, calls on the Commission, in the renegotiation of the GPA, to secure from the States in question an extension of their offer to cover public contracts subject to the agreement in proportion to the value of the contracts which they reserve for their SMEs or, in the alternative, to obtain the insertion of a clause permitting the European Union to give preferential treatment to European SMEs in the award of public contracts, following the model of the measures already applied by the States in question;
2010/03/26
Committee: IMCO