16 Amendments of Martin SCHIRDEWAN related to 2023/2077(INI)
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Highlights that the US Inflation Reduction Act attaches social conditionalities to public support schemes promoting, such as good pay, apprenticeship places or unionized jobs; emphasizes that the US Inflation Reduction Act is planned to be financed through fair taxation of the largest corporations and extraordinarily wealthy households; calls on Member States and the Union to apply social conditionalities and fair taxation in their own public support schemes;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Stresses that competition policy should not be an obstacle to the implementation of an active industrial strategy; calls on Member States and the Union to pursue an active industrial policy underpinned by strong public investment to fight social and regional inequality, decarbonise industry and bolster autonomy in key economic sectors, while contributing globally to even and sustainable economic development; calls for a coordinated flexibilisation of State aid rules and the introduction of a dedicated permanent European solidarity funds to counterbalance uneven industrial support and development across Member States;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Is deeply concerned that “rising corporate profits account for almost half the increase in Europe’s inflation over the past two years as companies increased prices by more than spiking costs of imported energy”1a; condemns this misuse of market power by corporations leading to higher levels of inflation and exacerbating the cost of living crisis; considers this development of a sellers’ inflation a failure of the framework and enforcement of competition policy in the Union; calls on Member States and the Commission to introduce permanent and general windfall taxes and to reform competition law in order to enable competition authorities to investigate and intervene systematically at sectoral level with unfair price hikes; _________________ 1a IMF Working Paper No. 2023/13 retrieved from: https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs/Articles/202 3/06/26/europes-inflation-outlook- depends-on-how-corporate-profits- absorb-wage-gains
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Is deeply concerned about the current food price crisis and the high levels of market concentration and financial ownership in food supply chains potentially disincentivising competition and facilitating unfair price hikes; calls for a thorough sectoral investigation of market power and financial ownership in EU food chains and the implementation of structural remedies including preventions of further mergers and acquisitions; calls for a revision of EU competition law to align its enforcement with the objective that corporate conduct has to respect the fundamental right of consumers to affordable food;
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Is concerned about the Commission’s ongoing in-depth investigations into a potential breach of EU State aid rules in the cases of the support measures for public rail freight operators Fret SNCF and DB Cargo; deplores that the investigations are causing pressure to restructure the sector threatening substantial amounts of jobs in Germany and France and contravening the decarbonisation of the transport sector; calls on the Commission to consult trade unions and ensure rail freight workers' rights; calls on the Commission to drop its investigations in the light of the objectives established by the sustainable and smart mobility strategy under the European Green Deal aimed at doubling rail freight traffic and reducing overall transport emissions by 90 % by 2050; stresses that competition policy should not prevent progress in the green transition for which rail freight is key;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Supports the principle that the use of public money should entail public ownership and control; calls for public investment enabling public ownership and public control over strategic company decisions such as closures, reductions in production and relocations to be prioritised over the use of subsidies as State aid;
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Stresses that State aid should not amount to a transfer of public wealth to private shareholders; calls for a ban on the distribution of dividends to shareholders and bonuses to upper management in companies receiving State aid;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 c (new)
Paragraph 8 c (new)
8c. Stresses that the purpose of State aid is not to serve the private interests of companies but to support and guide sustainable industrial development in the public interest; calls on Member States to attach social conditionalities to the provision of State aid with the objective of fostering good working conditions and pay, labour participation and collective bargaining rights and the maintenance and creation of new jobs and apprenticeships;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 d (new)
Paragraph 8 d (new)
8d. Calls on Member States to attach environmental conditionalities to the provision of State aid with the objective of promoting a zero-emissions and zero- waste economy as well as the conservation of biodiversity;
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Calls for mandatory consultation and participation rights for workers in merger and acquisition decisions;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)
Paragraph 10 b (new)
10b. Calls on the Commission to ban any merger or acquisition for companies that are currently defined as gatekeepers according to Article 3 of the Digital Markets Act;
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Welcomes the opening of a formal investigation into possible anti-competitive practices by Microsoft regarding Teams; calls on the Commission to carefully assess the concessions, unilaterally offered by Microsoft, with the undertakings involved, in order to ensure that they address the concerns of existing consumers, as well as interoperability and pricing issues;
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Insists that the current EU framework for competition policy failed to protect consumers from unjustified price hikes driven by market power of companies; calls for unbundling to also be a structural remedy in situations where abuse of a dominant position on a relevant market cannot be ascertained, but conditions for competition, or other key objectives as the fundamental right to affordable food, would improve significantly if unbundling measures were applied;
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Regrets the absence of booking.com from the gatekeepers list; calls on the Commission to open a market investigation on short time rental platforms to ensure that all eligible services are designated in order to restore fair and equal competition in the short term rental market;
Amendment 173 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Stresses that Parliament should play an active role in shaping competition policy and be more involved in the activity of working parties and expert groups; calls for the ordinary legislative procedure to be fully extended to cover competition policy legislation;