15 Amendments of Marco ZULLO related to 2017/2073(INI)
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes the Commission initiative providing guidance for Member States in the context of the mutual evaluation exercise, including the organisation of in-depth discussions with national authorities and the national professional associations concerned;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes that Member States have faced significant challenges in notifying information about the professions they regulate and the requirements for accessing those professions, which have led to an increase in red tape;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Underlines that improving transparency and comparability of the national requirements on the access to or pursuit of regulated professions is key to ensuring safe mobilitycould enable greater mobility among professional service providers and that consequently, in line with Directive 2005/36/EC, all national requirements should be notified and made publicly available in the database for regulated professions, in a clear and intelligible manner;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Member States to fully implement Article 59 of Directive 2005/36/EC and to step up their efforts to guarantee more transparency of their professional regulations, which is crucial for the mobility of professionals across the EU;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Stresses that effective regulation of professions contributes to the development of a fair society; recalls that Member States are free to introduce new regulations or to amend existing rules restricting the access to or pursuit of regulated professions where justified by public interest objectives, including overriding reasons of general interest, reflecting thuswhich serve to maintain their vision for society and their socio-economic context;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. At the same time, considers that discriminatory, unjustified and disproportionate requirements can be particularly unfair, especially for young professionals, struggling to enter a profession, and can hamper competition and negatively affect service recipients, including consumers;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Recognises the role of professional regulation in achieving a high level of protection of public interest objectives, such as the protection of consumers, recipients of services and workers, the safeguarding of the proper administration of justice, the protection of the environment, and the preservation of national historic and artistic heritage and social and cultural policy objectives; acknowledges the margin of appreciationlegislative sovereignty of Member States in determining the ways to achieve this;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Notes that profession-specific regulations pursuing objectives in the public interest aim tomust ensure effective supervision of the lawful practice of the regulated profession, and of its deontological rules where relevant;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Points out that better comparability of the level of professional qualifications is needed in order to increase the homogeneity of the evidence of formal qualifications across the European Union and to create a more level playing field for young Europeans entering the professions, as well as promotethereby facilitating their mobility;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Takes note of the fact that the Commission has issued a new restrictiveness indicator, seeking towith the aim of improveing on the existing OECD Product Market Regulation restrictiveness indicator as regards the detailed analysis of the sectors concerned;
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Underlines that this indicator, based solely on numerical data and including merely an analysis of the potential barriers to free movement, is to be used as a purely indicative tool and does not determine automatically whether a possibly stricter regulation in some Member States is disproportionate;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Recalls that the analysis of the impact of the regulations in Member States should be subject not only to a quantitative but also to a qualitative assessment encompassing the general interest objectives and the quality of the service provided; and the possible benefits for citizens and the labour market arising from regulation, such as the decrease in fraud and the reduction of information asymetries;
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Notes that scientific progress, technological innovation and digitalisation have a considerable impact on professional services, bringing new opportunities for professionals as well asbut also challenges for the labour market and the quality of services, as they necessitate permanent professional training and quicker adaptation to the needs of the market;
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Welcomes the acknowledgement by the Commission of the need to reflect on the impact of new technologies on professional services, especially in the legal and accounting sectors, where red tape could be reduced and procedures accelerated; notes in particular that close attention needs to be paid to the consequent risks of such a transformational change for service recipients, including consumers, of such a transformational changewho must not be excluded from new technologies, but rather helped to exploit them to the full, such as through digital literacy projects; ;