14/12/2021 (Agence Europe) – On Tuesday, 14 December, MEPs adopted the report by Daniel Caspary (EPP, Germany) on the international public procurement instrument (IPI) by 590 votes to 8 with 99 abstentions. In the Committee on International Trade on 1 December, MEPs had voted in favour of a strict instrument (see EUROPE 12843/7). This plenary vote paves the way for interinstitutional negotiations, which could start as early as this week, according to the rapporteur. He added that the European Parliament had adopted an “easily understandable and easily applicable instrument which creates as little bureaucracy as possible”. See the report: https://bit.ly/3yqcc2W (LM)