SNCM and CMN are maritime transport operators that are operating the route between Corsica and Marseille for the period 2007-2013 under a public service delegation agreement concluded with the Corsican regional authorities and the Corsican Transport Board.

33. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to seek to ensure that the OECD Guidelines on Multinational Enterprise are strengthened in their current update, maintaining and enhancing their application to ‘specific instances’ and introducing best practice for ‘National Contact Points’ (NCPs), including a review of how the European Union could better undertake its obligations on NCP through the European External Action Service's delegations;

33. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to seek to ensure that the OECD Guidelines on Multinational Enterprise are strengthened in their current update, maintaining and enhancing their application to ‘specific instances’ and introducing best practice for ‘National Contact Points’ (NCPs), including a review of how the European Union could better undertake its obligations on NCP through the European External Action Service’s delegations;

24. Calls in this connection, and in the interests of possible improvements in efficiency through the involvement of new operators and ways of providing SGIs, for more legal certainty as a matter of urgency as regards the different forms of inter-authority organisations (cooperation between local authorities, public-private partnership, awarding of concessions), a clarification of European law on competition, on the award of contracts and on State aid, and of the general criteria applicable throughout Europe; stresses that there should be legal clarification concerning the outsourcing of public services, which is different in kind from ...[+++]public contracts; calls on the Commission to spell out the rules for awarding such outsourced services and to make a clear distinction between those rules and the rules governing public contracts;

6. The conditions for granting concessions or public service delegations to the EGTC within the field of territorial co-operation are to be defined in the convention, on the basis of the applicable national law.

SNCM and CMN are maritime transport operators that operate the route between Corsica and Marseille for the period 2007-2013 under a public service delegation agreement concluded with the Corsican regional authorities and the Corsican Transport Board.