Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-07-02-Speech-3-079"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-07-02"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Vote2
dcterms:Language	"fi"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030702.2.3-079"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-07-02-Speech-3-0802
lpv:speaker	lp:Eija-Riitta Korhola2
lpv:spokenAs	member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Suomen kristillisdemokraatit rp (2001-05-30--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Latvia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, many of my colleagues have shunned the idea of including environmental targets in the criteria for public procurement. This is nevertheless fully in harmony with the view contained in the Treaty that environmental policy should be integrated with all EU policy. Parliament has done some good work to increase the number of acts that support sustainable development in legislation regulating production. This effect, which comes from the supply side also, however, needs support from the demand side, and it is precisely public procurement that can have an impact on that when it can be shown that there are grounds for including environmental criteria in an invitation to tender. The so-called Helsinki case, on which the European Court of Justice has given a decision, highlights an important point. When the party placing the order is a public body, it represents the general public. In that case it should not just protect the public’s financial interests but one also has to think, for example, about protecting the health of the general public. The Helsinki case was about this very issue. It goes without saying that public health is at the same time a long-term economic benefit, through which a public body will save at least just as much as it could have saved by choosing a cheaper supplier."@en1

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