20 Amendments of Marco ZULLO related to 2017/2003(INI)
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Agrees that the collaborative economy could also generate new entrepreneurial opportunities, jobs and gprowth,sperity, and likewise open up new employment opportunities for those who are unemployed or economically inactive and, moreover, serve as a point of entry to the labour market for many young people struggling to find a first job; considers in addition that the collaborative economy could help to attract new categories of users and could play an important role in making the economic system not only more efficient, but also socially and environmentally sustainable;
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Emphasises the need to consider the collaborative economy not only as a business model but also as a new form of integration between the economy and society which is able to embed economic relations within social ones and to create new forms of community; notes that services offered within the collaborative economy are based on a wide variety of relations, including for example offerings free of charge, exchange in the true sense, repayment of costs incurred, and profit- making activity;
Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. WelcomUrges the Commission’s intent to tackle the current fragmentation, but regrets that its communication did not bring sufficient clarity about the applicability of existing EU legislation to different collaborative economy models;
Amendment 143 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Believes that there are no universal criteria for classifying services provided through collaborative platforms and that it is necessary to proceed on the basis of analyses allowing for the specific features of the sector concerned and of the territory on which the services are to be provided; points to the importance, however, of distinguishing between professional and peer-to-peer services; considers that this distinction should, as a general rule, take several factors into account, including the frequency of the service, the reason for providing the service, and the level of revenue generated by the service provider; takes the view that, for example, a service provided on a frequent basis, for a reward rather than against payment to compensate for the costs incurred, and capable of generating revenue levels exceeding the thresholds laid down by national or local authorities can be considered a professional activity; also takes the view that if an online platform controls the supply of services offered by providers on the platform and sets terms and conditions entailing an obligation to perform those services, for instance in the form of choices as to when and how often a provider has to perform the services offered on the platform, the activity in question should be considered to be of a professional nature;
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Agrees that market access requirements for collaborative platforms and service providers must be necessary, justified and proportionate, and that this assessment should be dependent on whether services are provided by professional or private individuals, making peer provider and also allow for the distinction between professional and peer-to-peer services, making peer-to-peer services subject to lighter legal requirements appropriate to the circumstances;
Amendment 161 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. UNotes that there is now a tendency in many Member States to set thresholds serving to distinguish professional services from peer-to-peer services and hopes that such thresholds, instead of being rigid, will allow for the characteristics of the sectors in which professional services are provided and for the social and economic situation in the territory concerned; urges the Commission, in addtiion, to provide further guidelines to Member States with a view to laying down effective criteria for distinguishing between peers and professionals, which is crucial for the fair development of the collaborative economy;
Amendment 168 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Draws attention, at the same time, to the risk that establishing thresholdsthe rules applicable may create a disparity between micro and small businesses on the one side, and peers on the other; calls therefore for the legislation applicable to professional service providers to be revised in order to level the playing field among comparable categories of service providers and to remove unnecessary regulatory burdens;
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Believes that consumers should enjoy a high and effective level of protection, regardless of whether services are provided by professionals or peers; highlights, in particular, the importance of protecting consumers in peer-to-peer transactions; welcomes the Commission’s initiative to ensure the adequacy of consumer law and preventing abuse of the collaborative economy; points to the need for greater clarity regarding safeguards for consumers in the event of disputes;
Amendment 202 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Calls on the Commission to clarify the collaborative platforms liability regime, which could and also to make it clear whether platforms operating in sectors in which there are risks to users' safety should be required to ensure that service providers receive proper training, so as to enhance responsible behaviour and increase user confidence;
Amendment 221 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Believes that any new regulation should leverage platforms’ self-governing capacities; is convinced that collaborative platforms themselves could take an active role in such a new regulatory environment by correcting many asymmetric information and other market failures which have been traditionally addressed through regulation, especially by digital trust-building mechanisms; welcomes the efforts of many platforms to avert distortions in the arrangements for reviewing the services offered and calls on all platforms to endeavour to ensure that user reviews are truthful and manipulations curtailed;
Amendment 225 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Expresses concern at the numerous cases of fraud that are continuing to occur within the collaborative economy; calls on platforms, therefore, to ensure that the necessary systems are in place to monitor online payments so as to minimise fraud risks and to provide for complaint procedures in order to increase consumer confidence;
Amendment 242 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Points out the crucial importance of clarifying methods by which decisions based on algorithms are taken and of guaranteeing algorithm fairness; emphasises the need to verify the potential harm to privacy caused by big data, to assess the impact of data on different segments of society and to prevent discrimination; expresses disquiet at the fact that in some cases data collected by platforms contain sensitive information about service providers and users, such as their whereabouts or credit card details; calls on platforms, therefore, to supply transparent information to service providers and users about the personal data collected and the way in which those data are processed and to ensure that service providers and users are able to give their explicit consent to the processing of personal data; calls on the Commission to lay down effective criteria for developing algorithm accountability principles for information-based collaborative platforms;
Amendment 250 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Is convinced that a flexible common EU horizontal and harmonised regulatory frameworkregulatory framework that can be adapted to local contexts, consisting of a combination of general principles and specific rules, needs to be developed, in addition to any sector- specific regulation that might be needed;
Amendment 274 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Stresses, further, the urgent need for collaboration between the competent authorities and collaborative platforms onfor the purpose of determining the role which collaborative platforms must play in order to ensure tax compliance and collection, and asks for the latterplatforms to play an active role;
Amendment 276 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 a (new)
Paragraph 28 a (new)
28a. Calls on sharing platforms to increase the degree of transparency regarding the commission rates charged for services provided, so as to enhance consumer confidence;
Amendment 281 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Encourages the Member States to agree on a uniform set of information that businesses and professional service operators must disclose to tax authorities in the framework of their tax information duties;
Amendment 285 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Agrees that functionally similar tax obligations should be applied to businesses providing comparable services, whether in the traditional economy or in the sharing economy, and is convinced that taxeprofits should be paid wheretaxed in the Member State where the economic activity takes place and profits are generated;
Amendment 290 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 a (new)
Paragraph 30 a (new)
30a. Maintains that the continuing harmful or non-transparent tax practices of jurisdictions that function as tax havens are severely undermining competition within the collaborative economy as well and are particularly damaging to players seeking to enter the market; calls therefore on the Commission and the Member States to combat tax avoidance, evasion, and fraud, aggressive tax planning, and tax havens when dealing with the collaborative economy;
Amendment 340 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 a (new)
Paragraph 35 a (new)
35a. Urges platforms to play an active role in cooperation with local authorities; hopes in particular that platforms will assume a leading role in creating smart cities and easing the transition to more efficient citizen-friendly infrastructure;
Amendment 350 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36 a (new)
Paragraph 36 a (new)
36a. Welcomes the determination of national and local authorities to play an active role in developing collaborative systems, including actions aimed at promoting and disseminating services of general interest with a view to strengthening the local social fabric and encouraging the emergence of web applications and other business ideas;