Mr. Petar Vitanov, Member of the European Parliament (MEP), and the European Concrete Paving Association (EUPAVE), invite all to a debate ONLINE:
“Green Deal: The Right Choices for a Climate
Resilient and Sustainable TEN-T”
Wednesday | December 9 | 15:00 to 16:30
Online
To REGISTER by Monday December 7, 2020,
please contact:
Ms Elise Carabédian | E-mail: e.carabedian@eupave.eu
The Trans-European Transport Network (TEN–T) is a planned network of roads, railways, airports and water infrastructure in the European Union—first action plans adopted by EuropeanCommission on trans-European networks in 1990. It also includes a telecommunications network (eTEN) and a proposed energy network (TEN-E or Ten-Energy).
PROGRAM:
WELCOME and INTRODUCTION:
Mr. Petar Vitanov, MEP (S&D) and Mr. Stéphane Nicoud, President-EUPAVE will begin the event with WORDS OF WELCOME
Mr. Luc Rens, Managing-Director-EUPAVE, will discuss:
“A circular and long-term approach for Austrian motorways”
DG GROW and DG MOVE will contribute to the DEBATE
DI. Mario Krmek, Asset Manager, ASFINAG Baumanagement GmbH
will introduce a circular and long-term approach for Austrian motorways.
Mr. Petar Vitanov and Mr. Stéphane Nicoud
DEBATE CONCLUSIONS and closing remarks
To REGISTER, please contact Elise Carabédian, e.carabedian@eupave.eu.
For te PROGRAM, please go to: https://www.eupave.eu/wp-content/uploads/Invitation-to-EUPAVE-EU-Event-9-December-2020-1-1.pdf
For the DEBATE WEBSITE, please go to: https://www.eupave.eu/invitation-to-eu-debate-green-deal-the-right-choices-for-a-climate-resilient-and-sustainable-ten-t-9-december-2020/
SUMMARY:
Green Europe Workshop
& “European Week of Cities & Regions”
This year, the European Week of Regions and Cities was spread over 3 consecutive weeks, each dedicated to one timely topic:
Empowering Citizens
Cohesion & Cooperation
Green Europe
—The WORKSHOP took place in the week dedicated to Green Europe. EUPAVE was invited to participate in DG GROW’s WORKSHOP on October 22, 2020. The WORKSHOP focused on the topic of sustainable infrastructure with special attention to the public procurement phase and the possibilities of using sustainable criteria in public tenders.
Katharina Knapton-Vierlich, Head of Unit (Acting), Unit G.1 Public Procurement Strategy-DG GROW, European Commission, moderated the ONLINE EVENT.
Around 60 participants from diverse groups from regional authorities, business organizations, other Commission departments attended the 3-week virtual event. For the recorded segments of the “European Week of Cities and Regions”, click on the theme you want: to browse, for the overview of related sessions, and to access the recordings of October 5 through October 22, 2020: https://europa.eu/regions-and-cities/programme/programme-glance_en
PRESENTATIONS:
Luc Rens, Managing Director-EUPAVE, represented EUPAVE
—EUPAVE’s presentation, entitled “Fair and healthy competition through sustainable tendering” included
• Introduction to the association
• Explanation of what EUPAVE advocates for
• Advantages of concrete pavements
Luc also discussed the importance of:
• Having a choice between competing solutions
• Tender evaluation criteria (assessment over the life cycle of the infrastructure)
• How to move away from the traditional tendering procedures—e.g. by the method of alternate bidding
Juan Manuel Díez Orejas, Strategic Planning & Innovation-Port Authority of Valencia, Spain
Veronika Safrankova, Head of UNEP Brussels Office-UN Environment, Belgium
Suzanne de Vos-Effting, Sustainable Procurement Advisor-Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, Netherlands
Description on the European Commission webpage:
“… in the recovery phase and beyond, public investment will be more crucial than ever to boost key industrial ecosystems such as construction, transport and mobility”
Speakers discussed “how sustainability objectives can be embedded in every step of the development and implementation of public infrastructure projects”. Discussions covered topics such as:
- How to attract private finance into public projects
- The use of the EU taxonomy by the public sector
- Preparing projects, with a special focus on the public procurement phase and the possibilities of using sustainable criteria in public tenders
- Sustainability during project implementation (construction) and monitoring
Q&A
Mr Rens actively engaged in a handful of questions by the participants.
His final statement that “sustainability is thinking about our future generations; so it requires thinking on the long term and not just looking at short term benefits” was shared by the other panelists.
For more information, please go to:
EUPAVE article: https://www.eupave.eu/eupaves-participation-to-the-european-week-of-cities-and-regions-sustainable-infrastructure/
European Commission Webpage: https://europa.eu/regions-and-cities/programme/programme-glance_en