14 Amendments of Isabella ADINOLFI related to 2016/2276(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas online platforms (hereinafter ‘platforms’) cover a wide range of actors involved in numerous and different economic activities, including collaborative economies and not-for-profit activities, and are therefore not subject to any clearencompassing and precise definition, the formulation of which wcould be one of the first steps of a sectoral regulation process;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the emergence of platforms, by easing and fostering the relationship between service providers and consumers, results in the shaping of both new and existing markets, which may at times have a disruptive effect and by enabling peer to peer exchanges, contributes to the shaping of both new and existing markets and the emergence of new business models, which may bring about radical changes on the economic value of such markets;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas a level playing field should exist for platforms and for businesses using their services, in order to ensure that the same substantial rules apply to services having a substitute character and to stimulate innovation and prosperity;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas some platforms provide services considered substitute for services offered in the traditional manner and therefore they could be in the position to compete with operators who are subject to specific regulatory constraints without themselves being formally governed by such constraints, either; whereas this is because of the specific nature of the services they provide or because such rules are inapplicable or unenforceable in an online environment;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the liability regime laid down in the e-commerce directive, which represents a fundamental aspect of it, is applicable to online service providers only under specific conditions, and cannot, in any case, exempt them from their substantial obligations and responsibilities related to their own activities and businesses;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas, by giving intellectual property rights (IPR) infringers easy access to consumers, platforms allow a substantial number of infringements to take place, leading to an uneven and unfair sharing of value all along the supply chain platforms pose new challenges in finding the right balance between the protection of intellectual property rights (IPR) and the new possibilities for consumers to access and exchange copyright-protected content, goods and services;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas the protection of intellectual property rights cannot lead to neither the simplistic criminalisation of certain new activities, taking into account their extension and social acceptance, nor a disproportionate, unfair and socially costly enforcement;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas loyalty and transparency should be key guiding principles for platforms, as for any other economic activity and business, in building trust with their consumers and with their business partners;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. WelcomesTakes note of the Commission communication on platforms and all action taken so far. Recalls that a certain number of issues remain still open and need to be addressed;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Supports the need to increase the responsibility of platforms given the high public profile some have achievedhares the view that platforms should be subject to a certain degree of responsibility corresponding to their public profile and their importance in terms of economic and bargaining power;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls for an appropriate and proportional regulatory framework that would guarantee loyalty and transparency towards both consumers and business partners in relation to, inter alia, access to the service, appropriate and fair referencing, and the functioning of relevant application programming interfaces;
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Considers that platforms on which a large volume of works are stored and made available to the public should conclude licence agreements withthat store and give access to the public to a large volume of works should share with authors, creators and relevant right- holders a fair share of profit;
Amendment 72 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Commission to take the appropriate actions to avoid that platforms could abuse of their dominant market positions, thus negatively affecting competition within the EU digital market and be detrimental for businesses and consumers;
Amendment 75 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls for a simplification of the rules and greater cooperation between platforms, users and right-holders in order to fight counterfeiting online, , especially through application of the ‘follow the money’ approach; underlines that a regulatory framework based on a revised and simplified IPRED directive wcould be the appropriatone of the means of ensuring a high level of cooperation frombetween platforms, users and all other economic actors.