FIEC President at EU Industry Days
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Kick-off of the “Blueprint” project
The partners, which include Social Partners from the EU and the national level, as well as training centres, will, amongst other things, develop tools aimed at better analysis of the expected future developments in the above mentioned fields and at ensuring their adequate integration in the training schemes.
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Public procurement: Commission urges 15 Member States to comply with public procurement and concessions rules
On 24th January, the Commission sent letters of formal notice to 15 Member States regarding the conformity of their national legislation with EU rules on public procurement and concessions (namely Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Sweden, and the United Kingdom). These letters are the result of a compliance check conducted by the Commission to see whether the transposed national rules comply with the EU Directives.
The new rules (Directive 2014/24/EU, Directive 2014/25/EU and Directive 2014/23/EU) had to be transposed by Member States into national law by 18th April 2016.
Member States now have two months to reply to the arguments put forward by the Commission; otherwise, the Commission may decide to follow up with the sending of a reasoned opinion.
The same assessment is being undertaken or will be carried out for the remainder of Member States, where transposition was completed with important delays.
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