The Rapporteur presented his draft report highlighting in particular the four objectives that underpin his work on a future new EU regime on concessions: The Rapporteur seeks to simplify, clarify and reorganise the Directive to ensure readability and consistency; to assert the specificity of concessions contracts compared to public procurement contracts; to guarantee the autonomy and freedom of public authorities to choose how they organise themselves and, to provide a sufficient degree of flexibility to public authorities in the procedures.
His amendments focus notably on the definition and the calculation of the value of a concession, including clarifying the thresholds and the exclusions, and the review of the award procedures. Overall the Rapporteur emphasised the importance of achieving the right balance between flexibility and transparency, so as to ensure both effectiveness of the rules and the equal treatment of suppliers.
The deadline for amendments is set on 3 October at 17.00.
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