Traduction de «gpa limited » (Anglais → Français) :

6. Recognises the significance of the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA), which might limit the scope of any legislative adjustments at EU level, as a number of procedural requirements originate directly from GPA, but stresses that public procurement rules are, in certain areas, even more restrictive than under GPA; calls on the Commission, whilst observing the relevant principles in force (competition, transparency, non-discrimination, efficiency), to seek more simplicity and flexibility in the rules so as to facilitate and foster social procurement;

On the World Trade Online website, an American publication, we can read that U.S. trade representative Ron Kirk said that the value to U.S. firms from the provinces and territories signing on to the GPA will be tens of billions of dollars. By contrast, the extent of the benefits for Canada under the tentative agreement is limited, according to a U.S. trade official.

The Commission will be looking at the 26 contracts at stake to see whether the limitations on competing for procurement contracts for the reconstruction of Iraq are in line with the United States' commitments under the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Government Procurement Agreement (GPA).

More precisely, the principal amendments introduced in the revised proposal consist of: Objective (1) making it clear that the proposal under discussion will not open up the EU market any further to suppliers from third countries (scope of the measure), notably by: clarifying the fields of application of the GPA and the Directives, as well as a clear statement as to the legal regime applicable to third country suppliers Objective (2) rewording the text concerning the technical dialogue in order to make it more flexible, notably by: replacing the earlier provision on "technical dialogue" by a recital and Objective (3) re-examining a number of amendments in order to remain as far as possible within the sectors covered by the GPA, notably by: ...[+++]limiting to the sectors covered by the GPA the obligation to inform eliminated candidates or tenderers of the reasons for their rejection and eliminated tenderers of the characteristics and advantages of the tender selected limiting the application of the changes in the thresholds to the contracts and sectors subject to the GPA limiting the amendments to the model notices, and in particular the notice on the existence of a qualification system (Annex XIII) and the periodic information notice (Annex XIV), to what is explicitly required by the GPA as is the case regarding the information to be provided by contracting entities when they invite candidates to confirm their interest following publication of a periodic indicative notice used as a means of calling for competition and introducing an obligation on the Commission to respect the commercially-sensitive nature of information communicated by contracting entities in notices on contracts awarded and concerning prices.

The aim is to ensure that third country suppliers do not enjoy better access to contracts than Community suppliers, to introduce more flexibility concerning technical dialogue between suppliers and procurement entities and to limit as far as possible the scope of the amendments to the sectors covered by the GPA.

The two proposals, which form part of the necessary follow-up to the 1994 GATT package, would not in any way modify the access granted to EU markets for third country suppliers, products or services established by the GPA but would introduce limited technical changes to the EU's procurement rules applicable only to EU companies.