Traduction de «Préposé à la passation des marchés » (Français → Anglais) :

42. Calls on the Commission to promote access to risk capital and to ICT clusters in order to push forward innovative pre-commercial projects and to nurture early-stage innovation in ICT markets; stresses the potential of public-private partnerships and of the forthcoming new public procurement rules on establishing innovation partnerships; encourages the early adoption of online public procurement tools as a means of taking advantage of the forthcoming public procurement reforms;

The Commission has put forward an ambitious but realistic proposal to modernise the EU's public procurement legal framework[6] as foreseen in the 2011 Single Market Act.[7] One objective of these proposals is to achieve a full transition to e-procurement in the EU by mid-2016.[8] The ultimate goal is “straight through e-procurement” with all phases of the procedure from notification (e-notification) to payment (e-payment) being conducted electronically.[9] This will maximise the efficiency gains of e-procurement for the public sector ...[+++]and allow European companies – especially SMEs – to exploit the full benefits of the Digital Single Market.

The award of contracts concluded in the Member States by contracting entities as referred to in Directive 2004/17/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 coordinating the procurement procedures of entities operating in the water, energy, transport and postal services sectors (5) and by contracting authorities as referred to in Directive 2004/18/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 on the coordination of procedures for the award of public works contracts, public supply contracts and public service contracts (6) is subject to compliance with the principles of the Treaty and in particular the free movement ...[+++]of goods, the freedom of establishment and the freedom to provide services, and with the principles deriving therefrom, such as the principles of equal treatment, non-discrimination, mutual recognition, proportionality and transparency.

This is above all the case with the proposal for a directive on the coordination of procedures for the award of public supply contracts, public service contracts and public works contracts. Article 53 of this has to be changed so that it is significantly easier to take account of the environment in awarding contracts. In the second directive of the two – namely the proposal for a directive coordinating the procurement procedures of entities operating in the water, energy and transport sectors –the same change is not, however, made to Article 54, which is of course identical to Article 53 in the directive first referred to.

So it is only a good thing that the Commission has taken in hand the law on the award of public contracts, which dates back to the Seventies, and that we are now engaged in doing justice to the requirements of modern times and of the Internal Market with two directives. A certain amount has already been said about the modernisation of the directives on the award of public contracts, and I do not need to add anything to that.

[3] Council Directive 92/50/EEC of 18.6.1992 relating to the coordination of procedures for the award of public service contracts, Council Directive 93/36/EEC of 14.6.1993 coordinating procedures for the award of public supply contracts and Council Directive 93/37/EEC of 14.6.1993 concerning the coordination of procedures for the award of public works contracts, as amended by European Parliament and Council Directive 97/52/EC; Council Directive 93/38/EEC of 14.6.1993 coordinating the procurement procedures of entities operating in th ...[+++]e water, energy, transport and telecommunications sectors, as amended by European Parliament and Council Directive 98/04/EC.