31 Amendments of Sergio Gaetano COFFERATI related to 2017/2278(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas over 250 000 public authorities in the Union spend around 14 % of GDP, namely nearly 2,000 billion euros each year on the purchase of services, works and supplies;
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas public procurement involves the spending of a considerable amount of taxpayers’ money, meaning that taxpayers expect this procurement to be carried out with transparency and integrity in the most efficient way, in terms of both costs and quality delivered, in order to provide quality goods and services to citizens;
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas the intelligent use of public procurement can address challenges such as climate change, resource scarcity, inequalities or ageing societies by supporting social policies, accelerating the transition to more sustainable supply chains and business models;
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas public procurement is a strategic tool used to reach the EU’s goals of green and socially inclusive growth;
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas public procurement may be a useful tool in the service of a stronger single market, social inclusion, the fight against social and environmental dumping, and for the growth of EU companies and jobs in the Union;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas the European Union is committed to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs);
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas it is of crucial importance that suppliers trust that the Union’s public procurement systems offer simple and accessible, digital procedures, full transparency, integrity and security of data;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Is deeply disappointed by the pace at which many Member States have transposed the 2014 directives in the area of public procurement, and by the many delays, and regrets the fact that the Commission had to initiate the infringement procedure for a small number of Member States;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to finalise swiftly the Guidance on Public Procurement of Innovation and the Guide on socially responsible public procurement, in order to facilitate the implementation of the respective legal provisions in the Member States and especially the use of the most economically advantageous tender as the main award criterion; in this regard, calls on the Commission to clarify that this does not mean the lowest price;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Asks the Commission to better organise the guides and other tools developed to help Member States with the implementation of the public procurement framework, in a more accessible and user- friendly way that offers a good overview to practitioners, while also paying attention to the languages available;
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on the Commission to propose compulsory green public procurement procedures; considers that goods as services, reused, repaired, remanufactured, refurbished and other sustainable and resource-efficient products and solutions are to be preferred in all public procurement, and if they are not preferred, the ‘comply or explain’ principle should apply;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls for the extensive use of innovative procurement to implement green and socially inclusive growth;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Member States to use public procurement strategically in order to promote a sustainable, circular and socially responsible economy, as well as employment, innovation, SME and social economy enterprises growth and competition; underlines that this requires Member States to systematically signal such policies at the highest level and support, to this end, procurers and practitioners in the public administration;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Calls on regional and local authorities to establish a procurement strategy which defines how the procurement plans of the authority, within a timeframe of the upcoming five years, will support the strategic goal of green and socially inclusive growth; calls upon Union institutions, Member States and central and local government authorities to ensure that contracting authorities have a comprehensive procurement strategy in place and it is carried out at the level of each procurement entity; as part of this process public hearings and consultations with the end users of products and services should be arranged;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. While acknowledging that in some cases the low price reflects innovative solutions and efficient management, is Is concerned about the excessive use of the lowest price as an award criterion in a number of Member States and that no special attention is paid to quality, sustainability, social inclusion or innovation; therefore calls on the Commission and the Member States to analyse the reason behind this situation; and stresses the need to apply the criterion of the most economically advantageous tender as the main criterion of reference;
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Calls on Member States to ensure that public procurement practices are in line with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and that persons with disabilities are consulted on all procurement processes and decisions that impact them or are done to procure services for them; calls on Member States to ensure that the judicial remedy of persons with disabilities is guaranteed in public procurement processes that directly impact them;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Calls for the adoption of a European Code of Ethics for Public Procurement for the various actors in the procurement process, in particular to ensure compliance with social and environmental standards;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 b (new)
Paragraph 11 b (new)
11b. Calls on the Member States to ensure that the provision of services of general interest, such as, services for children, the elderly and disabled persons are without exceptions excluded from public procurement processes which use only the lowest price as an award criterion;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 b (new)
Paragraph 11 b (new)
11b. Underlines the importance of establishing a transparent dialogue with civil society, including trade unions and representatives of disabled people, with the aim of creating better analytical tools to develop policies that correspond to the real needs of society;
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Recalls that the Union public procurement legislative framework obliges Member States to ensure that contractors and subcontractors fully comply with the environmental, social and labour law provisions which apply at the place where the works are executed, services provided or goods produced or supplied, as set out in the applicable international conventions, in Union and national law as well as in collective agreements concluded in accordance with national law and practices; calls on the Commission to guarantee that this obligation is fulfilled by Member States in the transposition and application of the 2014 directives and to facilitate the exchange of best practices in this area;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Calls on the Commission to develop and adopt into use common Life Cycle indicators relating to the life cycle of a product or works or the provision of a service, measuring all aspects relating to environmental protection, working conditions, labour rights, equality, social inclusion, human rights, impacts on adjacent communities, and ethical trade; calls on the adoption of these indicators to guide choices made in the production or other non-use phases of the life cycle of the product, even if such characteristics are not apparent in the physical characteristics or functional qualities of the resulting product or service;
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Regrets that the Member States underuse the possibilities offered by public procurement to adopt social criteria and measures as strategic instruments to promote sustainable social policy objectives;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)
Paragraph 13 b (new)
13b. Calls on Member States to introduce systems of joint and several liability for the subcontracting chains in public procurements; asks the Commission to propose the introduction of such a system in the European Union public procurement legislative framework, at least with regard to the compliance of contractors and subcontractors with environmental, social and labour law provisions;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Welcomes the voluntary ex-ante assessment of procurement aspects for large infrastructure projects, as proposed by the Commission, and calls on the latter to focus on the operation of the helpdesk as a priority, while fully respecting confidentiality; suggests that awarding a label of attestation of conformity to the contracting authority would make this voluntary ex ante evaluation more attractive;
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to do their utmost to put in place the eForms by the end of 2018 at the latest;
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Agrees with the Commission that publicly available contract registers can be a cost-efficient tool for managing contracts, for improving transparency, integrity and data, and for better governance of public procurement;
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Emphasises that all Member States should be in a position to provide all necessary data on public procurement implementation, including data on tenders, procedures and contracts and statistical information, also in order to enable the Commission to assess the single market on procurement;
Amendment 121 #
27. Regrets that SMEs and social economy enterprises are still facing difficulties in accessing public procurement, and calls on the Commission to assess the effectiveness of the measures provided by the 2014 directives and to come forward with new solutions if necessary;
Amendment 140 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
Paragraph 35
35. Welcomes the Commission’s recommendations on professionalisation and calls on the Member States to develop national plans as a priority; stresses the need to clearly recognise new qualifications acquired by creating a common European framework of technical and computer skills;
Amendment 141 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37
Paragraph 37
37. Underlines that both procurers and suppliers need to be adequately trained especially in the use of social and environmental criteria, in order to work efficiently at all procurement stages, and that attention must be given to all levels of public administration as regards professionalisation;