Op 9 september 2026 is door de Europese Commissie (EC) een ‘Proposal
for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL’ (COM(2026) 590
final) gepubliceerd:
Het gaat om een Voorstel voor een ‘Public Procurement Act’, in dit geval een EU-verordening en dus geen EU-richtlijn, die de bestaande Richtlijnen 2014/23/EU, 2014/24/EU en 2014/25/EU herroept en bepaalde EU-verordeningen en EU-richtlijnen wijzigt.
Volgens artikel 1 lid 1 van het Voorstel geldt:
This Regulation establishes rules on public contracts
for works, supplies or services and concessions for works or services procured
by one or more public buyers from one or more economic operators, the value of
which is equal to or greater than the thresholds established in Article 2.
Het gaat dus nog steeds om (de aankoop middels) ‘overheidsopdrachten’, ‘ondernemers’ en ‘aanbestedende diensten’.
De bestaande Richtlijn 2014/24/EU kent in artikel 59 een bepaling over het Uniform Europees Aanbestedingsdocument (‘UEA’). Zie daartoe bijvoorbeeld lid 1 gedeeltelijk:
Op het ogenblik van de indiening van de verzoeken tot
deelname of de inschrijvingen, aanvaarden de aanbestedende diensten - als
voorlopig bewijs ter vervanging van door overheidsinstanties of derden
afgegeven certificaten die bevestigen dat de betrokken ondernemer aan alle
volgende voorwaarden voldoet - het Uniform Europees
Aanbestedingsdocument (UEA), bestaande uit een bijgewerkte eigen verklaring
[…]
In het Engels gaat het om het European Single Procurement Document (‘ESPD’):
At the time of submission of requests to participate
or of tenders, contracting authorities shall accept the European Single
Procurement Document (ESPD), consisting of an updated self- declaration as
preliminary evidence in replacement of certificates issued by public
authorities or third parties confirming that the relevant economic operator
fulfils the following conditions […]
Het European Single Procurement Document (‘ESPD’) lijkt niet terug te keren in het Voorstel.
Artikel 6 sub 3 van het Voorstel maakt (echter) wel melding van:
‘digital business credential tool’ means a digital
tool allowing for the verification, exchange and storage of evidence related to
the exclusion grounds, selection criteria, origin and other requirements set
out pursuant to this Regulation in the procurement procedure and available
through the tool
En onder 5 van artikel 6 is bepaald:
‘eligibility profile’ means a compiled document
generated by the electronic eligibility service referred to in Article 133
which contains information about the economic operator, including information
regarding its compliance with exclusion grounds, selection criteria and origin
Waardoor dus artikel 133 (‘Electronic eligibility service’) van het Voorstel relevant is. Ik noem hier de leden 1 en 2 van dat artikel:
1. The
Commission shall set up and operate an electronic eligibility service. The
electronic eligibility service shall provide an electronic verification service
for exclusion grounds, selection criteria and requirement of origin for each
procurement procedure by means of the European Business Wallets established
pursuant to Regulation [OP – please add proposal on the establishment of the
European Business Wallets] or by alternative electronic means which shall be
interoperable with the European Business Wallets.
2. For
each procurement procedure, public buyers shall specify the applicable
exclusion grounds, selection criteria and requirements of origin, in the
electronic eligibility service. Economic operators shall create an eligibility
profile in the electronic eligibility service corresponding to the procurement
procedure they wish to participate in. The eligibility profile shall allow
public buyers to verify if the economic operator fulfils the requested
requirements through use of the digital business credential tool.
En voorts, dat in lid 5 onder a van dat artikel wel een heel ambitieuze implementatiedatum lijkt te worden genoemd:
The digital business credential tools listed in
paragraph 4 of this Article shall fulfil the following requirements:
(a) for
instruments set out at Union level, they shall, by 30 June 2028, be technically
implemented in all Member States and be generally available to economic
operators
In de Overwegingen 15 en 53 van het Voorstel wordt in vorenbedoeld verband verder genoemd:
(15) In order to simplify and modernise the verification of the eligibility of economic operators in public procurement procedures, the electronic eligibility service should constitute the principal means of proof for the absence of exclusion grounds, compliance with selection criteria and, where relevant, fulfilment of origin-related requirements. The digital business credential tool used in this context should enable the retrieval of structured evidence from relevant national and Union databases, which should be interconnected to the electronic eligibility service to allow for the use of automated verifications, where possible. Where verifications are based on personal data, national and Union law should include suitable safeguards to mitigate the risks to individuals, including rules on who can access and view the data as well as the limitation of access only to such data as is necessary to access within the scope of this Regulation. Individuals should also have the possibility to review the outcome of the verification before it is provided to the public buyer.
(53) An
important element of the simplification of procurement procedures is to lower
the administrative burden contained in the check of the eligibility of the
economic operator. To this end, the Commission should set up an electronic
eligibility service, which provides information from the up-to-date digital
business credential tool of the economic operator as well as any consortium
member or subcontractor participating in the individual procurement procedure.
Through the connection from the tool to national databases, public buyers may
receive current information on the eligibility of the economic operator.
En dat zou dus mooi zijn!
Een praktijk die zich kenmerkt door een gebrek aan gebreken in het UEA.
Lees over gebreken in het UEA bijvoorbeeld:
https://keesvandewater.blogspot.com/2025/10/als-je-maar-iets-aanvinkt.html
Een ‘eigen verklaring’ lijkt echter nog niet voorgoed voorbij.
Zie namelijk artikel 28 lid 3 van het Voorstel:
Economic operators shall use the digital business credential tool as provided for in Article 133. Where an economic operator does not have access to that tool or where the relevant evidence is not available through that tool, the economic operator shall declare, through the electronic eligibility service, whether it complies with the requirements set out for exclusion grounds and the selection criteria and whether it would be able to submit the required evidence (self-declaration).
In that case, the public buyer may, at any time during
the procedure, require evidence that is not available through the electronic
eligibility service where it is necessary for the assessment of the public
buyer’s requirements.
Maar daar lijkt vooralsnog niet snel sprake te kunnen zijn van (een) gebrek (-en) in de betreffende eigen verklaring.
We gaan het (dus) meemaken!
Lees over het Voorstel ook:
https://keesvandewater.blogspot.com/2026/09/onderhandelen-volgens-het-voorstel-voor.html
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