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Strategic exchange on GPP through European project between Italy and Romania

This month’s News Alert on green public procurement (GPP) is now available online at http://ec.europa.eu/environment/gpp/pdf/news_alert/Issue70_NewsAlert_April.pdf

In this issue you can read our interview with Carsten Wachholz from the European Environmental Bureau, based in Brussels, and what he has to say about the potential for furthering green purchasing actions through greater collaboration with non-governmental organisations (NGOs) working on sustainability issues.

Find out more about the strategic exchange of experiences happening between regional and national government entities in Italy and Romania through the EU-funded GPPBest project. Details of how the City of Ghent (Belgium) have greened their large-scale purchases of cleaning products for municipal buildings are also featured in this month’s newsletter. All products purchased by Ghent meet the criteria of the European Ecolabel, as a minimum.

To read more GPP examples, visit the European Commission’s GPP website. Previous issues of the GPP News Alert are available here

Similarly, the Court of Justice ruled in a recent judgment of 5 April 2017 (C-298/15) that a provision of national law which states that, where subcontractors are invited to carry out a public contract, the main part, as defined by the contracting entity, must be performed by the successful tenderer itself (and thus not by the subcontractor) is in principle not admissible because it breaches EU law. Interestingly, this was despite the fact that the contract in question had a value below the threshold for the relevant EU Directive, the Utilities Directive (2004/17/EC).

However, such a restriction may, according to the Court of Justice, be justified if it pursues a legitimate objective in the public interest (like ensuring that the works are properly executed) and but on ly to the extent that it complies with the principle of proportionality. This requires an assessment on a case-by-case basis.

In the same judgment, the Court of Justice ruled on the legality of a provision, contained both in the national (Lituanian) procurement la and in the tender specifications, which, in circumstances in which a tender is submitted by a consortium, requires that the contribution of each member of the consortium, in order to satisfy the requirements for professional capacities, corresponds proportionally to the share of the works they will actually carry out if the relevant contract is awarded to them.

This is interesting, as under Belgian public procurement law a similar provision (for subcontractors) can be foreseen (Art. 12 of the Royal Decree of 14 January 2013).
In the present case, the contracting authority in question wanted to avoid a situation in which, in order to win the contract, a tenderer attempts to rely on capacities that he does not intend to use or, conversely, that a tenderer would be awarded a contract and perform part of the works without having the capacities and resources necessary for the proper performance of those works.

On this issue, the Court of Justice ruled that it was possible, taking account of the technical nature and size of the works to be performed, that their proper performance requires, in cases in which a consortium bid, that each one of them performs specific tasks corresponding to its own professional capacities. However, the requirement here was for there to be an arithmetic correspondence between the contribution of each member needed to satisfy the requirements for professional capacity and the share (of value) of the works that each was to undertake. The Court observed that such a requirement does not take account of the nature of the tasks to be carried out or to the technical capacities specific to each of the members of the consortium.

Following the AG opinion, the Court held that a consortium should be free to satisfy collectively the requirements relating to professional capacity (including experience), and then be entitled to specify how the various tasks under the contract are to be performed, which the authority can then seek to verify. The more general “arithmetic” requirement use here was held to be an unjustified restriction on freedom to provide services and freedom of establishment.

Also, and importantly, as the requirement was unrelated to the specific works or services required to be performed, it did not prevent one member of the consortium from carrying out specific tasks for which it did not have the experience or capacities required.

A single individual is enough for hope to exist, and that individual can be you, says His Holiness Pope Francis in this searing TED Talk delivered directly from Vatican City. In a hopeful message to people of all faiths, to those who have power as well as those who don’t, the spiritual leader provides illuminating commentary on the world as we currently find it and calls for equality, solidarity and tenderness to prevail. “Let us help each other, all together, to remember that the ‘other’ is not a statistic, or a number,” he says. “We all need each other”

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România are nevoie de o Zi Națională a Investițiilor care poate schimba mentalități și destine a milioane de oameni. ​Pentru că educația financiară este fundamentul oricăror decizii investiționale bune, te invităm să susții demersul Bursei de Valori București de a institui​ o Zi Națională a Investițiilor în data de 15 mai. Investim zilnic în economia românească. Merităm o Zi Națională a Investițiilor!

11 Aprilie 2017, Sursa : Bursa de Valori București, http://www.bvb.ro/

De ce să semnezi?

• Suntem pe ultimul loc în Uniunea Europeană la educație financiară. Hai să ocupăm un loc mai în față!
• Educația financiară este despre fiecare dintre noi, despre decizii și nu doar despre bani.
• Susții un demers național de educație financiară!

Îți mulțumim pentru sprijin,
Echipa Bursei de Valori București

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International conference

On 4-5 May 2017 Centre for Enterprise Liability (CEVIA) will host a two-day international conference at the Faculty of Law of the University of Copenhagen,  where researchers from the CSR Legal Research Network, the SMART project and other renowned specialists discuss timely developments relating to the field of procurement, sustainability and CSR.

11th April, 2017, Source : University of Copenhagen, http://jura.ku.dk

The global value of public procurement spending is enormous. Just the OECD countries alone spend a total of €1000 billion per year. In the EU over 250 000 public authorities each year spend around 14-19% of GDP on the purchase of services, works and supplies. In many sectors such as energy, transport, waste management, social protection and the provision of health or education services, public authorities are the principal buyers. Within specific industry sectors, the sheer scale of public procurement spending and their supplier selection decisions, can literally create and shape a market and impact lives of citizens across the country at large.

These days, public procurement is no longer just about buying the cheapest possible supplies or services. Instead, the new sustainable procurement is understood as a process whereby organizations meet their needs for goods, services, works and utilities in a way that achieves value for money on a lifetime basis in terms of generating benefits not only to the organization, but also to society and the economy, whilst minimizing damage to the environment. The sustainability agenda has been broadly discussed by the European Union in regards to promotion of green and socially conscious governmental contracting. However, due to deficiency in regulating legislation, administrative pressures and lack of training, sustainable procurement methodology, coupled with the lack of accountability on CSR policies, is not used as often as desired.

Key benefits

As a result of attending this conference participants will:

• Understand the complexity of procurement beyond price from legal, business and sociological perspective
• Gain knowledge regarding differentiation between sustainability and corporate social responsibility in procurement context
• Gain an insight into how sustainable procurement considerations including CSR may be incorporated to the procurement process – best practices
• Understand the challenges and limitations in CSR incorporations in procurement
• Recognise the critical importance of human rights protection and anticorruption in procurement

As Romanian Union for Procurement Professional we salute PhD, Law, Professor Dacian DRAGOS presence at this event as lecturer with topic : CSR Pillar 1 – Anti Corruption ! 

Topics to be covered include

• Different faces of sustainable procurement and successful case studies
• What type of social considerations are relevant for procurement and how to include them
• Relevance of Human Rights in procurement
• What are the challenges, pitfalls and risks when considering CSR and other sustainability concerns in procurement

The conference Registration is now open to scholars, public sector bodies (i.e. contracting authorities) , private sector bodies (i.e. procurement managers) and other professionals with an interest in this area. See further here:

Details

Time : 4-5 May 2017

Place: Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, Conference/flex room, ground floor, room 8A-0-57, Karen Blixens Plads 16, DK-2300 Copenhagen S

Organizers: CEVIA, CSR Legal Research Networkand the SMART project

Sponsors: BravoSolution

Media Partners: EPPPL

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Preşedintele Federaţiei Sindicatelor PRO ADMINISTRAŢIE din România (FSPAR), Silvia Moldovan, a declarat că federaţia a solicitat demisia ministrului Muncii, Olguţa Vasilescu, pe care o acuză de încălcarea principiilor legii salarizării unitare, politizarea funcţiei publice şi sfidarea angajaţilor din administraţia publică locală, care nu au fost invitaţi la dezbaterile pe marginea proiectului legii salarizării unitare.

11 aprilie 2017, Sursa : Administrație.ro, http://www.administratie.ro

“Având în vedere încălcarea principiilor legii salarizării unitare, politizarea funcţiei publice prin rămânerea salarizării din administraţia publică locală la latitudinea celui ales, precum şi sfidarea angajaţilor din administraţia publică locală prin eludarea participării acestora la dezbaterile pe marginea acestei legi, Federaţia Sindicatelor PRO ADMINISTRAŢIE din România solicită demisia ministrului muncii, Lia Olguţa Vasilescu“, a arătat Silvia Moldovan.

Aceasta a spus că, prin actualul proiect al legii salarizării, a cărui depunere în Parlament a fost amânată cu o săptămână, se va ajunge la politizarea funcţiei publice, fapt ce contravine principiilor Legii 188/1999 şi la o discriminare a administraţiei publice locale faţă de administraţia centrală.

“Am asistat la o dezinformare fără egal a ministrului Muncii, doamna Lia Olguţa Vasilescu, care afirma că această lege a fost dezbătută cu toate federaţiile din domeniul bugetar. Ori, administraţia publică a fost exclusă de la dezbaterile pe seama acestei legi, iar după cum rezultă din afirmaţiile domniei sale, întâlnirea întâmplătoare sau în secret cu unul dintre liderii din administraţia publică, ‘căruia i-a pus în mână draftul legii să-l studieze cât doreşte’, nu înseamnă participarea reprezentanţilor acestor angajaţi la dezbaterile legii. Suntem profund indignaţi de tratamentul sfidător la adresa celor din administraţia publică locală care, în opinia dânsei, trebuie să rămână în afara grilelor, la cheremul aleşilor, în baza aşa-zisei autonomii locale. În această situaţie, nu vom avea o lege unitară de salarizare, ci vom asista la politizarea funcţiei publice, ceea ce contravine principiilor Legii 188/1999 şi la o discriminare a administraţiei publice locale faţă de administraţia centrală şi faţă de celelalte sectoare din domeniul bugetar, în dezacord cu principiile acestei legi”, a arătat preşedinta FSPAR, referindu-se la o poziţie publică exprimată de ministrul Muncii.

Silvia Moldovan susţine că puterea nu ar dori o lege a salarizării unitare, ci o lege care “să menţină şi să satisfacă anumite interese” şi că “secretomania” şi “lipsa totală de transparenţă” a Guvernului în elaborarea legii salarizării unitare este condamnabilă. “Totodată, am aflat cu stupoare că transparenţa decizională nu este relevantă pentru actualii guvernanţi, iar din spusele doamnei ministru, punerea pe site a legii salarizării ar duce la o serie de comentarii şi opinii, de care legiuitorul poate să ţină sau să nu ţină cont, dar adevărata dezbatere pe marginea legii se face în Parlament. Astfel, cu o atitudine arogantă evidenţiază posibilitatea de încălcare a legii şi de sfidare a dialogului social, neînţelegând că acestea au fost adevăratele motive pentru care Cartelul Alfa şi unele federaţii sindicale i-au cerut demisia. De asemenea, aflăm cu stupoare că deciziile Curţii Constituţionale sunt opţionale şi că nu va proceda la creşterea salariilor la nivelul maxim al familiei ocupaţionale pentru ‘trei primării care au câştigat în instanţă anumite drepturi salariale’, susţinând că la Primăria Craiova, după ce au fost introduse în salariul de bază, au fost solicitate şi ca sporuri, o altă dezinformare a doamnei ministru”, a mai afirmat Silvia Moldovan. AGERPRES

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This is our weekly European public procurement news roundup. We will be bringing you recent public sector stories and information from around Europe’s news portals, reporting on how more than a trillion Euros of taxpayer money is being spent. This will become part of a future initiative to bring you more frequent, online reporting.

7th April, 2017, Source : Public Spend Forum, http://publicspendforumeurope.com, By : Nancy Clinton

DWP Procurement Scheme apparently making it difficult for charities to bid

The UK’s Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) welfare-to-work procurement programme is said to be ‘undermining’ the charities sector in its bidding process. An infrastructure body has said it will likely make it difficult for charities that want to bid to be subcontractors. See the full story on Civil Society News.

New developments in Romanian Public Procurement

In 2016, Romanian public procurement legislation was completely changed. Now in 2017, further developments have been taken place. The newest practice-oriented Instruction encourages contracting authorities to formulate qualification and selection criteria as well as evaluation factors which emphasize quality. The main new developments are highlighted in Lexology.

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European Catalogue of ICT Standards for Procurement

6th April, 2017, Source : Public Spend Forum, http://publicspendforumeurope.com, By : Nancy Clinton

In the closing address at Procurement Week recently, Rodolphe Wouters of the European Commission summed up what we had heard during the day about the ‘IoT – Procuring a Connected Living’ — AI, connected cars, smart cities, blockchain, and so on. But what does it all really mean for European Procurement? If in ten years’ time everything will be connected, when does Procurement enter the stage – will it be too early? too late? Have we got our infrastructure in place? Are we behind other cities? How do we find out what others are doing and learn from them. Afterall what’s the point in making the same mistakes, repeating the same failures – that’s just inefficient and costly for the citizen.

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