Joel Hasse Ferreira

Member of the European Parliament

- Rapporteur on SSGI -

Brussels, the 1st of October, 2008CECOP – CICOPA Europe

“Worker ownership: the synthesis betweenentrepreneurial development and social inclusion”

• Cooperatives

•Social Economy

•European Social Model

• Social Economy

- The importance for the European Social Model

- Kind of benchmark

• Iberian and Scandinavian Experiences

• Resistance against fascism

• Concession of Public Services

- The Rules

• Public Procurement

- Equitable Conditions

• Social Services of General Interest

“…however, that in the case of SSGIs, the rules on competition, public aid and the internal market must be compatible with public service requirements, and not the other way round…”

Lisbon Forum on SSGI

Competition

and

SSGI

→ Treaty of Lisbon;

→ Protocol about SGI;

→ References about social affairs in the Chart of Fundamental Rights.

Protocol on Services of General Interest

Article 1

“ - the essential role and wide discretion of national, regional and local authorities in providing, commissioning and organising services of general economic interest as closely as possible to the needs of the users- ”

• 2nd Forum on SSGI in Paris

Joel Hasse Ferreira

Member of the European Parliament:

Rapporteur on SSGI

Employment and Social Affairs Committee

Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee

Scientific Technical Options Assessment Panel

Graduate in civil engineering (Lisbon Technical University)

Doctor in management sciences (Jean Moulin University, Lyon)

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