1 Amendments of Urmas PAET related to 2019/2131(INI)
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to ensure thatReiterates that the objective of EU competition policy is to promotes fair competition and reciprocal trading conditions at EU and global levelin a free and dynamic internal market; notes that an increasing number of external actors operate within the further aim of strengthening our own industry in the EUat internal market and stresses the need to ensure that EU competition rules apply to all actors active within the EU internal market; calls, on therefore, for unfair trading Commission to safeguard the EU level playing field with a more coordinated, assertive and integrative approactices to be addressed effectively by making full use of the available instruments, developing new, effective tools and tackling the distortive effects of foreign state ownership and subsidies in the internal market, in particular where EU funding is involvedh of existing instruments instruments, including competition and procurement policies as well as trade instruments; calls on the Commission to also consider including state subsidies and government ownership as exclusion criteria and/or the contract award criteria of the EU's public procurement direction as well as the extraterritorial application of EU competition policy to address the distortive effects of foreign state ownership and subsidies in the internal market; welcomes in this regards the recent proposal by the Dutch government the strengthen the level playing field on the internal market; welcomes, against this backdrop,lso the new Commission’s intention to strengthen the foreign direct investment screening mechanism, and calls for discussions on the EU’s international procurement instrument to be resumed;