Activities of Katalin LÉVAI

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)

Ba. whereas there is no Europe-wide register providing reliable information about debtor' assets, it is essential to create an efficient way to exchange information between Member States and enforcement authorities and improve access to the national registers and increase the information available in them, while respecting the principle of the protection of the debtor’s privacy,

2009/01/27
Committee: JURI

2008/2184(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Notes that not one Member State has transposed Directive 2004/38/EC effectively and correctly in its entirety, and that not one article of the Directive has been transposed effectively and correctly by all Member States (regarding the right of residence, some Member States make requirements (working licence, satisfactory accommodation) which are contrary to Community law and build artificial barriers); notes that such restrictions could cause serious damage to the European labour market and economy, especially in the recent economic crisis;

2009/01/28
Committee: JURI

2008/2184(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Is concerned that only thirteen Member States consider the registered partners as family members and therefore guarantee same-sex couples their primary and individual rights of free movement and residence; calls on the Commission to monitor restrictions on the right of entry and residence in the other Member States in order to prevent discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation;

2009/01/28
Committee: JURI

2008/2121(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Takes the view that a review of ‘soft- law’ regulation is needed in the field of copyright and related rights and that, if necessary, steps should be taken in relation to the legislation;

2008/11/27
Committee: JURI

2008/2121(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Reminds the Commission that, as regards the regulation of copyright and related rights, it is essential and imperative for the EU institutions to cooperate closely and to act in concert with each other;

2008/11/27
Committee: JURI

2008/2121(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 a (new)

29a. Urges that the situation in respect of a competitive market for online copyright and related rights be clarified (CISAC case);

2008/11/27
Committee: JURI

2008/2121(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35

35. Encourages the ~~use of work~~launch and use of new, freely available and downloadable EU Internet technologies for identification and recognition ~~technologi~~, and supports the existing ones , with a view to distinguishing more easily between legal and pirated products;

2008/11/27
Committee: JURI

2008/0157(COD)

Proposal for a directive – amending act
Recital 1

(1) Under Directive 2006/116/EC of 12 December 2006 on the term of protection of copyright and certain related rights, the term of protection of performers ~~and~~, producers of phonograms and producers of films is 50 years.

2008/12/09
Committee: JURI

2008/0157(COD)

Proposal for a directive – amending act
Recital 3 a (new)

(3a) For film producers the period starts with the first fixation of a film or from date of its first publication or communication to the public within 50 years after fixation.

2008/12/09
Committee: JURI

2008/0157(COD)

Proposal for a directive – amending act
Recital 7 a (new)

(7a) The rights of producers of the first fixation of a film shall also be extended to 95 years after publication of the film. If the film has not been published within the first 50 years, then the term protection should run for 95 years from the first communication to the public.

2008/12/09
Committee: JURI

2008/0157(COD)

Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 2 d (new)

Directive 2006/116/EC
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – sentence 2

(2d) The following point shall be inserted: "In the second sentence of article 3(3) the cipher “50” is replaced by the cipher “95"

2008/12/09
Committee: JURI

2008/0157(COD)

Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 4

Directive 2006/116/EC
Article 10a – paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. With respect to the administration of rights concerning the on-demand services by broadcasters of their radio or television productions incorporating music from lawfully published phonograms, Member States shall ensure that the rights of performers and phonogram producers to grant or refuse authorization for such use may be exercised mainly through the collecting society which has been established for collecting and distributing the remuneration for broadcasting such phonograms.

2008/12/09
Committee: JURI

2007/2238(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital A

A. whereas long-term investments of hedge funds and private equity can play an important ~~positive~~ role in the European economy by increasing Europe's competitiveness and contributing to job creation,

2008/05/08
Committee: JURI

2007/2238(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas hedge funds and private equity investment strategies are often based on significant financial risk-taking and high leverage, which give rise to financial stability concerns,

2008/05/08
Committee: JURI

2007/2238(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)

Ba. whereas specific Community legislation concerning hedge funds or private equity does not exist,

2008/05/08
Committee: JURI

2007/2238(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital C

C. whereas self-regulation of hedge funds and private equity is insufficient; whereas principle-based regulation is an appropriate approach to regulating financial markets as it is ~~better~~ able to keep up with market developments ~~than product-specific regulation~~,

2008/05/08
Committee: JURI

2007/2238(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital D

D. whereas, the current financial crisis has highlighted a lack of transparency and whereas it is recognised that there is a need to enhance transparancy at different levels; whereas while transparency is vital for a functioning market, it must be purposive in relation to the target group; whereas transparency that is not purposive will have adverse effects on market stability through herding and predatory trading, and risks destroying the entire alternative investment business model based on innovative trading strategies,

2008/05/08
Committee: JURI

2007/2238(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital E a (new)

Ea. whereas the aggregated effects of the behaviour of hedge funds and private equity can lead to systemic risks; whereas financial market supervisors lack a complete overview of the activities of hedge funds and private equity; whereas no appropriate legal instruments enabling market authorities to stop hedge funds and private equity from harming the stability of financial markets currently exist,

2008/05/08
Committee: JURI

2007/2238(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital E b (new)

Eb. whereas the remuneration systems for hedge funds and private equity managers may give rise to perverse incentives leading to irresponsible risk-taking,

2008/05/08
Committee: JURI

2007/2238(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital E c (new)

Ec. whereas the current structure of corporate governance includes imbalances in terms of ownership, control, transparency, supervision, accountability and information; whereas hedge funds and private equity potentially affect the level of transparency of the operational management in a negative way,

2008/05/08
Committee: JURI

2007/2238(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Notes that there is a body of Community legislation concerning financial markets that directly or indirectly, and only to some extent, applies to hedge funds and private equity; emphasises that most of that legislation is relatively recent and that its full impact cannot therefore be assessed yet; consequently, calls on the Member States and the Commission to ensure its consistent implementation and application;

2008/05/08
Committee: JURI

2007/2238(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Notes that, in addition to existing legislation, the hedge fund and private equity industries have produced their own voluntary standards of best practice; supports these initiatives ~~and takes the view~~but stresses that such a soft-law approach is ~~appropriate~~insufficient for the regulation of the two sectors because ~~industry-initiated standards can keep up with market developments better than heavy regulation and are more likely~~they are non-binding and do not prevent less responsible players in the industry from taking excessive risks in order to get higher returns from investments; urges thane Comm~~unity legislation to impose a certain degree of global control, particularly over market players domiciled off-shore~~ission to initiate proposals that are principle-based along the lines of the Lamfalussy process, so they can keep up with market developments;

2008/05/08
Committee: JURI

2007/2238(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Calls on the Commission to investigate the possibilities of regulating off-shore market players globally;

2008/05/08
Committee: JURI

2007/2238(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Calls on the Commission to consider extending the definition of the “prudent person” principle in such a way as to require investors to verify that the alternative investment funds in which they invest also abide by the industry's best practice standards;

2008/05/08
Committee: JURI

2007/2238(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Calls on the Commission to study the possibility of requiring hedge fund and private equity industries' bodies to notify the Committee of European Securities Regulators of best practice standards as well as any substantive changes made thereto; considers that a public and harmonised database thus established could serve as a point of reference for investors;

2008/05/08
Committee: JURI

2007/2238(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Takes the view that, in order to satisfy the need to monitor market activity for supervisory purposes, all necessary information on hedge fund holdings and lending should be made available to competent supervisory authorities ~~via prime brokers~~; stresses that the ~~information requirements should not be such as to place an excessive burden on prime brokers and that the national supervisory authorities should aim, where necessary and/~~national supervisory authorities should aim to harmonise their requirements in order to avoid gold-plating and regulatory a~~ppropriate, to harmonise their requirements~~rbitrage and to promote a truly integrated financial market;

2008/05/08
Committee: JURI

2007/2238(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Recognises that excessive leverage may pose risks to the stability of financial markets; takes the view, however, that risk is part of those markets and that it must be left to participants in the markets concerned to assess the appropriate level of risk to take; does not support, therefore, the idea of setting a legal maximum level of leveragecalls on the Commission to put forward proposals to limit the level of possible leverage in order to prevent the spreading of systemic risks; urges the Commission to establish a set of legal instruments that would enable supervisors to intervene and make the financial markets function for the benefit of the real economy;

2008/05/08
Committee: JURI

2007/2238(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Notes that the current structure of corporate governance is imbalanced; calls on the Commission and industry to establish codes of conduct that would enhance the competences of important gatekeepers such as supervisory boards, works councils and accountants, and to improve the working methodology of analysts and rating agencies.

2008/05/08
Committee: JURI

2007/2210(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital Aa (new)

Aa. whereas there is currently no comprehensive European Union database collecting all necessary data on organs earmarked for donations and transplants or on living and deceased donors from the national databases/registries and international organisations of Member States;

2008/02/15
Committee: LIBE

2007/2210(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital D a (new)

Da. whereas there is currently no pan- European certification system certifying organ legitimacy and authorizing organ donation or transplants on a European- wide basis, and therefore preventing trafficking in human organs, commercialisation and transplant tourism;

2008/02/15
Committee: LIBE

2007/2210(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Considers that there is much promising research into transplanting animal organs, thereby avoiding using human donors in the future; asks the Commission to promote research into xenotransplantation;

2008/02/15
Committee: LIBE

2007/2210(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to launch a pan- European database and communication network or to support an existing one in order to interconnect the national databases and provide them with a platform for the fast exchanges of comprehensive data on organ donations and transplantations and on living and deceased donors. suggest that the Commission creates a European certification system, possibly based on the communication network, to certify organ and donor legitimacy, counteracting the trafficking in human organs, commercialisation and transplant tourism;

2008/02/15
Committee: LIBE

2007/0247(COD)

Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 14

Directive 2002/21/EC
Article 13 a – paragraph 1

1. Member States shall ensure that undertakings providing public communications networks or publicly available electronic communications services take appropriate technical and organisational measures to safeguard the security of their networks or services. Having regard to the state of the art, these measures shall ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk presented. In particular, measures shall be taken to prevent or minimise the impact of security incidents on users and on interconnected networks and the distribution of unsolicited, harmful or unlawful content.

2008/05/08
Committee: JURI

2007/0022(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 - point b

(b) “legal person” means any legal entity having such status under the applicable national law, including companies not classified as legal persons in a Member State, except for States or other public bodies acting in the exercise of their sovereign rights and for public international organisations.

2008/03/14
Committee: JURI

2007/0022(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 3

Member States shall ensure that the following conduct constitutes a criminal offence, when committed intentionally or with at least serious negligence, irrespective of the territorial extent of the consequences of the criminal offence:

2008/03/14
Committee: JURI

2007/0022(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 3 - point a

(a) the discharge, emission or introduction of a quantity of materials or ionising radiation into air, soil, rock or water, which causes death or serious injury to any person or any animal which is protected by a wildlife protection agreement;

2008/03/14
Committee: JURI

2007/0022(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 3 - point b

(b) the unlawful discharge, emission or introduction of a quantity of materials or ionising radiation into air, soil, rock or water, which causes or is likely to cause death or serious injury to any person or substantial damage to the quality of air, soil, water, animals or plants;

2008/03/14
Committee: JURI

2007/0022(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 3 - point c

(c) the unlawful treatment, including disposal and storage, recovery, transport, export or import of waste, including hazardous waste, which causes or is likely to cause death or serious injury to any person or substantial damage to the quality of air, soil, rock, water, animals or plants;

2008/03/14
Committee: JURI

2007/0022(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 3 - point d

(d) the unlawful operation of a plant in which a dangerous activity is carried out or in which dangerous substances or preparations are stored or used and which, outside the plant, causes or is likely to cause death or serious injury to any person or substantial damage to the quality of air, soil, rock, water, animals or plants;

2008/03/14
Committee: JURI

2007/0022(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 3 - point f

(f) the unlawful manufacture, treatment, storage, use, transport, export or import of nuclear materials or other hazardous radioactive substances which causes or is likely to cause death or serious injury to any person or substantial damage to the quality of air, soil, rock, water, animals or plants;

2008/03/14
Committee: JURI

2007/0022(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 3 - point g

(g) the unlawful possession, ~~taking~~removal from their habitat, damaging, killing or trading of or in specimens of protected wild fauna and flora species or parts or derivatives thereof;

2008/03/14
Committee: JURI

2007/0022(COD)