Translation of "Offre unique " (French → English) :

51. Emphasises the ambiguity with regard to Member States’ right to insist upon social, environmental and quality criteria in public procurement tenders and contracts, and draws attention to the changes in the legal framework brought about by the Lisbon Treaty and the European Charter of Fundamental Rights; in the context of fair trade, the prevention of a race to the bottom and the delivery of quality services, calls for the extension of the concept of ‘most economically advantageous offer’ such that calls for tender and procurement contracts, as well as subcontracts for provision of SGI, including SSGI, would have to include the relev ...[+++]ant Member State's national and/or local social, environmental and service quality criteria, which should be linked to best international practice; stresses that, in order to maintain standards, criteria for acceptance of tenders must not be based solely on price; urges that reforms take into account the specific status of not-for-profit and social economy providers;

Regulation should not lead to a single offer across the market.

1. Considers that EURES should become an important European labour market communication platform – a one-stop shop for workers' geographical and occupational mobility – intended to remove existing obstacles (especially arising from work-related social security questions), to extend the knowledge of all workers about their individual rights, especially rights to equal treatment, to further the EURES advisor network in terms of both quality and quantity, to extend access to job vacancy information for seasonal or short-term workers in Member States other than their countries of origin, and to extend the content of the EURES portal to information on job offers in order ...[+++]to address the needs of third-country nationals, in particular from countries coming under the EU's Neighbourhood Policy;

In political terms, the Treaty offers only the possibility of destroying the town in order to save it.

The time effectively allocated to training, however, varies considerably between countries and enterprises: for about one in four companies, commitment to training is absent or merely symbolic, i.e. none or only 1-2 days per employee per year.

(1) Council Directive 80/390/EEC of 17 March 1980 co-ordinating the requirements for the drawing up, scrutiny and distribution for the listing particulars to be published for the admission of securities to official stock exchange listing and Council Directive 89/298/EEC of 17 April 1989 co-ordinating the requirements for the drawing up, scrutiny and distribution of the prospectus to be published when transferable securities are offered to the public have been adopted several years ago introducing a partial and complex mutual recognition mechanism which is unable to ensure ...[+++] the objective of the single passport the said Directives should be upgraded, updated and grouped together into a single text.