22 Amendments of Evelyne GEBHARDT related to 2013/2043(INI)
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Stresses the need to improve geographical coverage and accessibility to universal service for delivery of parcels in rural and remote areas;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 2 a (new)
Subheading 2 a (new)
Comparison websites
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Notes that increasing numbers of consumers use comparison websites to compare prices, features or terms of delivery of products and services, especially with regard to e-commerce; stresses that comparison websites do not always provide consumers with transparent, accurate and complete information; welcomes the work already done by the Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue on Comparison Tools;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Stresses in particular that comparison websites need to be transparent, reliable, and managed in an operationally independent manner in order to be beneficial for both businesses, notably SME, and consumers and to ensure that consumers are provided with transparent and accurate information;
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 4 a (new)
Subheading 4 a (new)
Ensuring responsible employment conditions in the European delivery sector
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Points out that the parcel delivery sector is highly labour-intensive, with working conditions characterized by insecure contracts, long working hours, too high work load (insufficient time to provide good quality), stressful working conditions, low pay and few opportunities to access on-going vocational training;
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Stresses that ensuring responsible employment conditions in the delivery sector is an essential prerequisite for high-quality delivery services as well as social dimension of an integrated parcel delivery market;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 c (new)
Paragraph 9 c (new)
9c. Calls on the Member States to ensure that fair and decent working and pay conditions throughout the delivery sector are guaranteed, and to combat undeclared employment as well abuses of self- employed working status;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 d (new)
Paragraph 9 d (new)
9d. Is concerned at the fact that delivery operators often outsource delivery work to subcontractors and in some cases even sub-subcontractors; emphasizes that this might contribute to the increased working pressure notes that the competitive pressure and the large share of self- employed delivery workers can also to a large extent influence the quality of delivery;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 e (new)
Paragraph 9 e (new)
9e. Calls on the Member States to increase controls of subcontractors in order to comply with the legal and collective terms of employment;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 f (new)
Paragraph 9 f (new)
9f. Considers that, to achieve an integrated parcel delivery market, high- quality jobs are needed with a sound, well-integrated social dimension allowing the redefinition of existing skills and reskilling;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 g (new)
Paragraph 9 g (new)
9g. Criticises the Green Paper's lack of focus on issues of education and training opportunities, adequate salaries, and the involvement of the social partners; notes that any internal market regulation must take into account the social dimension, especially in terms of employment models based on self-employment, temporary employment and part-time employment;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 h (new)
Paragraph 9 h (new)
9h. Highlights that there are delivery performance gaps deriving from delivery workers failing to comply with delivery instructions due to lack of training, calls on the delivery operators to support staff training and education;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Considers that track-and-trace should be part of a standard set of information about the order provided by e-retailer to consumer;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 b (new)
Paragraph 11 b (new)
11b. Points out that by all the stakeholders involved in cross-border parcel delivery, the parcel needs to be identified by the same track-and-trace code from the submission of parcel to its delivery to consumer;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 5 a (new)
Subheading 5 a (new)
European e-Commerce Trustmark
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Stresses the need to create an European e-Commerce Trustmark ensuring quality, reliability, environmental and social sustainability and adequate working conditions for integrated delivery services that could help improve consumer confidence in e- commerce, stimulate e-retailers and parcel firms to take more responsibility in the delivery chain, boost transparency as well as legal certainty for both consumers and businesses and increase competitive advantage of business, especially SMES, therefore contributing to sound economic growth and employment creation;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)
Paragraph 14 b (new)
14b. Calls on the Commission to assess the appropriate legal framework and scale of a pan European E-commerce Trustmark by considering whether such a the accreditation and award of European e-Commerce Trustmark should be carried out by an EU institution or by MS institutions ensure accreditation at national level; Stresses the need that European e-Commerce Trustmark is to be granted to delivery operators who adhere to identified codes of conduct and who comply with obligations related to training and working conditions and environmental protection; emphasizes that such a trust mark should cover whole delivery chain of operators as well as subcontractors;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 c (new)
Paragraph 14 c (new)
14c. Notes that e-retailers who would like to display European e-Commerce Trustmark on a website as electronic labels would have to use accredited delivery operators only with the purpose to signal adherence to a set of rules ensured by European e-Commerce Trustmark;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 d (new)
Paragraph 14 d (new)
14d. Calls on the Commission to develop guidelines, technical standards and pre- conditions that should apply to European e-Commerce Trustmark; stresses that it is necessary for an European e-Commerce Trustmark in order to be effective to be based on a set of minimum features dealing with transparent provisions for consumer protection and information, as well as requirements for procedures for complaints handling and dispute resolution;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to ensure that the existing regulatory framework is fully transposed, implemented and enforced, with particular attention to the Postal Services Directive, EU competition law, the Directive on Alternative Dispute Resolution and the Consumer Rights Directive;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Highlights that the effective enforcement of the legal framework also depends on the surveillance by national regulators of the legal obligations of postal operators, in particular regarding the universal service obligation under Directive 97/67/EC;