14 Amendments of Pina PICIERNO related to 2015/2354(INI)
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the proper functioning of the Single Market is based on the constant adjustment and provision of an integrated response to the major economic and social challenges of the future, and on finding a balance between an open economy stimulating economic growth and quality job creation and an economic system delivering consumer protection as well as social and environmental safeguards to citizens;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the single market is underperforming in almost all areas – in stimulating a digital-driven market, encouraging start-ups, integrating global supply chains, improving workers mobility and social rights, dealing with new business models and ensuring market facilitation, standardisation and the licensing of professionals – due to a number of physical, legal and technical barriers;
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Believes in this respect that equal treatment principle for workers should be considered a pillar of an effective and socially sustainable single market and urges the Commission to take the necessary legislative and non-legislative actions in order to ensure that the this principle is fully respected in the single market;
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Underlines the urgent need to eliminate the remainingput back at the heart of the single market those who live in it and use it daily, and to eliminate the existing unjustified barriers from the single market in order to achieve effective tangible and quick results in terms of growth, innovation, job creation, consumer choice and new business models;
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls onDraws attention to the Commission’s initiative to ask the REFIT platform to address unjustified barriers to innovation and put forward proposals for ways to reduce or remove them; calls on the Commission to assess in the REFIT process not only the costs but also the benefits and values of legislation, as well as to take into account its broader social and environmental impact and not only the economic one;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on the Commission to actively involve all stakeholders, in particular social partners and consumers organisations to assess impacts of draft legislation and better regulation activities in the single market, run the proportionality and subsidiarity check (at ex-ante stage), and monitor implementation (ex-post stage); stresses, furthermore, that any exemptions for SMEs and micro entities must be assessed on a case-by-case basis for each proposal, while ensuring that exemptions do not lead to circumvention of social, labour or environmental legislation;
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Regrets that the Commission did not emphasise enough the specific role of traditional manufacturing by Crafts and SMEs as an important contribution to both competitiveness and economic stability in Europe; encourages the Commission to exploit the full potential of digitalisation and innovation of the manufacturing industry in particular for micro and small manufacturers and start- ups, as well as for less industrialised regions to help reduce regional disparities and revitalise local economies; believes that stronger SMEs Crafts policy has to be put forward as one of the top priorities of all European Institutions and Member States over the next years;
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 b (new)
Paragraph 11 b (new)
11b. Notes that companies, especially SMEs, are either not aware of the rules applicable in other Member States or have difficulties in finding and understanding the information on the rules and procedures applicable for their business; calls on the Commission to interlink all different portals, access points and information websites in a single gateway that will provide SMEs and start-ups with user-friendly information so that they can make well-informed decisions, save time and costs;
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Welcomes the Commission’s announced initiative on the European agenda for the collaborative economysharing economy including the guidance on how EU law applies to this new sector, and its intention to look at that economy in order to assess what needs to be done in order to taccompanykle the challenges it poses, to support its growth and its major contribution to the economic system; welcomes the Commission approach to examine the extent to which the provisions of the Services Directive, the e-Commerce Directive and the EU consumer protection acquis are applicable to the sharing economy and if there is need for further regulation, calls on the Commission to go beyond these provisions and examine the issue of social security and employment rights of workers, health and safety norms, taxation and licensing;
Amendment 228 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Calls on the Commission to put forward without delay a targeted legislative proposal which would enable European companies to manufacture generic and biosimilar medicines in the EU during the supplementary protection certificate (SPC) period, following the expiry of patent protection, in order to export to countries where no SPC is in place or to prepare for immediate launch following expiration of the SPC; believes that such SPC manufacturing waiver would contribute to avoid the outsourcing of production outside the EU and to create a level playing field between European companies and their competitors from third countries;
Amendment 233 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Calls on the Commission to present awithout delay a legislative proposal for the protection of geographical indications for non-agricultural products in the EU with the aim of establishing a single European system putting thus an end to a inadequate and highly fragmented situation in Europe, and offering many and varied positive effects for citizens, consumers, producers and the whole European economic and social fabric;
Amendment 241 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 b (new)
Paragraph 19 b (new)
19b. Supports the general approach set out in the Commission’s Communication in relation to public procurement to improve procurement decisions and the transparency and quality of procurement systems; encourages national procurement authorities to promote greener and more social tendering processes by including social and environmental criteria in the public procurement tenders; calls on the Commission to use the upcoming evaluation report and revision of the Remedies Directive to address problems such as ‘abnormally low bids’ and other social dumping practices in the procurement process;
Amendment 348 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 e (new)
Paragraph 27 e (new)
27e. Disapproves that the Commission did not adopt any specific measures in the Single Market Strategy to address the needs of people and consumers with disability, elderly people and people living in rural and remote areas;
Amendment 350 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 g (new)
Paragraph 27 g (new)
27g. Regrets that the Commission’s Communication does not announce any proposal in relation to the social economy although it plays a key role in the EU’s social and economic development; urges the Commission to explore the potential of this emerging sector and without undue delay to improve its visibility and a regulatory environment for social enterprises;