13 Amendments of Carles PUIGDEMONT I CASAMAJÓ related to 2019/2186(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the platform economy has become an integral and rapidly growing part of the European transport sectorand tourism sectors, disrupting them by revolutionising the way these companies conduct business, how they interact with both employees and customers or users;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas precarious self- employment in the platform sector is increasing, particularly for low-skilled platform-determined on-location work1 , including driving and delivery; as a result of such a disruptive new technology, including driving and delivery; whereas some major disruptions on transport are seen in an increased coordination for regional parcel carriers, in a real-time marketplace for long-haul trucking, in a new multimodal technology to the crowd, in increased crowdsourced assets within the supply chain, in warehousing, and in safety; _________________ 1Eurofound (2018), Employment and working conditions of selected types of platform work, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg.
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
B a. whereas the Union, with a Single Market of over 400 million people, is lacking behind the US and the People’s Republic of China in terms of large user basis and market permeability, but it is setting the regulatory standards for the use ofdigital services and products, as done with the GDPR and the new European Digital Strategy; whereas the European Parliament is very active following and proposing legislation as well as demanding scrutiny and due diligence by the competent authorities of the Union;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
B b. whereas the Union should develop common standards and norms in order to have a single rulebook for the Single Market, decreasing entry administrative barriers and aiming at boosting the modernisation and renovation of economies, offering re-skilling programs to workers who may be left behind, and empowering citizens;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Recital B c (new)
Recital B c (new)
B c. whereas the digitalisation of the economy has developed new services and products together with new forms of labour which tend to be under unequal labour rights than off-line sectors, or even under precarious job contracts both in terms oftime and salary; whereas the COVID–19 pandemic has increased the exposure of these workers to the disease, increasing such inequality;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Recital B d (new)
Recital B d (new)
B d. whereas the Union is not yet reaping all the benefits of interoperability, particularly due to shortcomings in standard-setting, public procurement and coordination between national competent authorities;
Amendment 75 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Urges that social protection and social rights of workers, especially of platform or collaborative economy workers should be properly addressed in specific legislation, taking into account the European Pillar for Social Rights, accompanying the future regulatory framework set up by the Union in order toprevent a lack of harmonisation;
Amendment 79 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2 b. Considers that the Union’s new digital legal framework should be based on public values of the Union protecting citizens’ rights, particularly on principles of efficient regulation in order to correct market failures, maximize accountability or competition in a dynamic sense and avoid the concentration and emergence of oligopolies and/or monopolies to the detriment of the consumer, SMEs, and the Single Market;
Amendment 90 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Stresses that regional and local competences as regards to digital services should be guaranteed and that notice- and-action mechanisms should be based on the principle of subsidiarity and therefore recognise these type of competences in order to guarantee that regional administrations do not lose competences;
Amendment 102 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Urges the Commission to develop common standards and norms in order to have a single rulebook for the Single Market, decreasing entry administrative barriers; stresses that these standards should help at enhancing the modernisation and renovation of economies, offering re-skilling programs to workers who may beleft behind and empowering citizens;
Amendment 104 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4 b. Urges the Member States and the Commission to promote interoperability between devices, applications, data repositories, services and networks, necessary to fully benefit from the deployment of information and communication technologies (ICTs);
Amendment 135 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8 a. Urges the Commission and the Member States to defend the rights of the workers of platform companies, who may be under unequal labour rights than off- line sectors, by levelling their working situation in terms of social protection, salary and time worked, as well as by establishing a fruitful consultation with civil society organisations that represent them; stresses that the COVID–19 pandemic has increased the exposure of these workers to the disease, increasing such inequality;
Amendment 141 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8 b. Considers that the Commission and the Member States should set up ex ante regulatory standards also for controlled, temporary spaces for economic activities such as the development of drones, the use of electric scooters or the implementation of digital ledger technologies (DLTs) to be used in transport and tourism; considers that these regulatory standards could minimize legal insecurity for new innovation and allow for their practical application to be assessed, helping to improve the regulatorycontext through continuous experimentation and evaluation;