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The award of contracts, services and supplies by public tender accounts for more than 14% of European GDP. In spite of this, the sphere of public contracts and tenders has reaped few benefits from the creation of the internal market. While it is true that these directives are very important for the equilibrium of the internal market and crossborder awards, the greatest benefit of these directives does not reside in this fact, but in the opportunity they provide for promoting sustainable development. Environmental and social objectives must be built in to public tenders and contracts. It is unfortunate that neither the proposal for a directive nor Mr Zappalà’s report grant public bodies the right (not to mention the obligation) to choose a given service or product by public tender on the basis of its sustainability. I therefore support the amendments intended to grant public bodies this right. It is hard to accept the fact that, on the one hand, through its European sustainable development strategy and the commitments undertaken at Johannesburg, the EU acknowledges that environmental costs must be factored into the economy, while, on the other, it prohibits the Member States from basing their acquisitions policies on that same principle."@en1
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