Combating late payment in commercial transactions

Tabled by Svenja Hahn, Moritz Körner, Jan-Christoph Oetjen, Andreas Glück, Michael Kauch, Malik Azmani, Catharina Rinzema, Bart Groothuis, Caroline Nagtegaal, Jan Huitema, Engin Eroglu, Ulrike Müller, Dita Charanzová, Ondřej Kovařík, Martin Hlaváček, Ondřej Knotek, Ivars Ijabs, Andrus Ansip, Urmas Paet, Andreas Schwab, Sabine Verheyen, Arba Kokalari, Norbert Lins, Niclas Herbst, Christian Doleschal, Marion Walsmann, Jörgen Warborn, Rasa Juknevičienė, Andrius Kubilius, Michiel Hoogeveen, Jens Gieseke, Roberts Zīle, Sven Simon, Tomas Tobé, Deirdre Clune, Geoffroy Didier, Laurence Sailliet, Jessica Polfjärd

Removed: Article 4 Payments to subcontractors in public procurement 1. For public works contracts falling within the scope of Directives 2014/23/EU, 2014/24/EU, 2014/25/EU, and 2009/81/EC56 of the European Parliament and of the Council, contractors shall provide evidence to contracting authorities or contracting entities within the meaning of those Directives that, where applicable, they have paid their direct subcontractors involved in the execution of the contract within the deadlines and under the conditions set out in this Regulation. The evidence may take the form of a written declaration by the contractor and shall be provided by the contractor to the contracting authority or contracting entity prior to, or at the latest together with, any request for payment. 2. Where the contracting authority or contracting entity has not received the evidence as provided for in paragraph 1 or has information of a late payment by the main contractor to its direct subcontractors, the contracting authority or contracting entity shall notify the enforcement authority of its Member State thereof without delay. 56 Directive 2009/81/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 on the coordination of procedures for the award of certain works contracts, supply contracts and service contracts by contracting authorities or entities in the fields of defence and security, and amending Directives 2004/17/EC and 2004/18/EC. Added: deleted

Wording as published by the EP, in English. PE760.676