Traduction de «marché public de services » (Français → Anglais) :

Directive 97/67/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 December 1997 on common rules for the development of the internal market of Community postal services and the improvement of quality of service (5) established a regulatory framework for the postal sector at Community level, including measures to guarantee a universal service and the setting of maximum limits for the postal services which Member States may reserve to their universal service provider(s) with a view to the maintenance of the universal service, to be reduced in a gradual and progressive manner, and a timetable for decision-making on the further opening o ...[+++]f the market to competition, for the purposes of creating an internal market in postal services.

Since the barriers in the internal market for services affect operators who wish to become established in other Member States as well as those who provide a service in another Member State without being established there, it is necessary to enable providers to develop their service activities within the internal market either by becoming established in a Member State or by making use of the free movement of services.

In the procedures for awarding public supply or service contracts, contracting authorities which have authorised variants may not reject a variant on the sole ground that it would lead, if successful, to either a service contract rather than a public supply contract or a supply contract rather than a public service contract.

(2) Directive 97/67/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 December 1997 on common rules for the development of the internal market of Community postal services and the improvement of quality of service(6) established a regulatory framework for the postal sector at Community level, including measures to guarantee a universal service and the setting of maximum limits for the postal services which Member States may reserve to their universal service provider(s) with a view to the maintenance of the universal service, and a timetable for decision-making on the further opening of the market to competition, for the purposes of ...[+++] creating a single market in postal services.

( 3 ) The attainment of freedom of movement of goods in respect of public supply contracts, and the attainment of freedom of establishment and freedom to provide services in respect of public services contracts and public works contracts, whereby such contracts are awarded in Member States on behalf of the State or regional or local authorities or other bodies governed by public law, entail not only the abolition of restrictions but also the implementation of provisions relating to the coordination of national procedures for the award ...[+++] of public contracts. The provisions should be based on the rules governing those three freedoms and on the principles flowing from them, such as the principles of equal treatment, of which the principle of non-discrimination is but one specific expression, mutual recognition, proportionality, transparency, and also on the introduction of effective competition in public contracts.

Whereas the Community attaches very great importance to the continued growth of cross-border telecommunications services, to the contribution that telecommunications services provided by companies, firms or natural persons established in a Member State may make to the growth of the Community market, and to the increased participation of Community service providers in third country markets; whereas it will therefore be necessary, as specific Directives are drawn up, to ensure that these objectives are taken into account with a view to reaching a situation where the progressive realization of the internal market for telecommunications ser ...[+++]vices will, where appropriate, be accompanied by reciprocal market opening in other countries;