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While our public procurement market is open to foreign bidders, the procurement markets for foreign goods and services in third countries remain to a large extent closed de jure or de facto. The IPI aims at encouraging partners to engage in negotiations and opening participation for EU bidders and goods in third countries' tenders. ",{"type":252,"content":269},[270],{"text":271,"type":256},"However, contrary to the original proposal of the year 2012 (COM(2012) 124 final), the amended version proposes to delete the possibility to close the market and to limit possible restrictive measures to price penalties - now called \"price adjustment measures\". 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