public procurement market

At international level, we are doing everything we can to open up the public procurement markets of the world's major economies.

The second aspect relates to reciprocity of access to the public procurement markets.

One of the biggest problem areas is in the $250 billion-a-year public procurement market.

The good functioning of public procurement markets is essential for stimulating the Single Market.

However, it is seems to me that the public procurement market is not working satisfactorily in the area of rolling stock.

Allowing European firms to compete in the country's public procurement market of about £50 billion is another requirement.

Providing European companies with access to India's public procurement markets may contribute to our companies' development.

The sizeable Serbian public procurement market is also being progressively opened up to European bidders.

According to her statement, Romania's public procurement market amounted in 2010 to approximately 19 bn euros.

If promptly adopted and effectively implemented by Member States, these measures will contribute to further improve the performance of our public procurement markets.

The public procurement market alone accounts for ECU 720 billion a year, of which very little goes to smaller companies: only about 11.7 %.

If other nations can reserve part of their public procurement markets for their SMEs, why shouldn't Europe?

Opening up the public procurement market is beneficial to the ordering institutions, because larger markets give greater opportunities for choice, and so for lower costs and better quality.

In the light of this, we would need an agreement that would also tackle non-tariff barriers, increase market access for investment and open the Japanese public procurement market.

In order to overcome the current financial and economic crisis, a perfectly functioning public procurement market is of crucial importance to revitalising the economy and ensuring equitable treatment.

Despite the openness of the EU public procurement market, access to third-country public procurement markets is still restricted to a large extent.

The FTA includes significant commitments on trade in services and investments by both sides and mutual access to public procurement markets, also in the energy and transport sectors.

(RO) The public procurement market at EU level is worth 16% of the EU's GDP.

A large number of the measures proposed, such as the review of the accounting directives, cutting red tape, improving access to the capital and public procurement markets, etc. feature in this communication.

EU businesses trying to trade or invest in South-East Asia still face tariff and non-tariff barriers and markets tilted against foreign service providers, especially in public procurement markets.

Hitherto, cross-border procurement has accounted for a small share of the whole public procurement market, because SMEs still have limited access to public procurement markets.

Regarding access to the European Union's public procurement markets by businesses from third countries, the European Union has a duty to act realistically and pragmatically and, above all, without naivety.

I would genuinely like to know what would be the effect on the public procurement market if thresholds were to be increased, and particularly on small and medium-sized enterprises and on consumers.

The USA, Canada, South Korea and Japan - the parties to the agreement - have already safeguarded preferential access for small- and medium-sized enterprises to the public procurement market.

In the process of being reorganised under the auspices of the World Trade Organisation, this Agreement offers the 36 signatories, including our 25 Member States, access to their partners' public procurement markets.