4 Amendments of Andreas SCHWAB related to 2007/2201(INI)
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Requests the Commission to work on facilitating customers' mobility in order for consumers to have the choice to change operator, thus reinforcing healthy competition between operators; wants to see, to the greatest extent possible, continuity of service to be ensured even when closswitching a current account or changing providers and to avoid any duplication of services;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Recommends the creation of a single European prospectus for providers to describe their basic products, related costs and conditions in order to allow an easy and transparent comparison thatwhere tied products do not allow at the moment; recommends the setting up of an independent European controller to guarantee the quality of the information provided as well as a Europe-wide research engine to allow easy and free cross-border comparison;
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Is confident that the SEPA and the Payment Services Directive should provide solutions to the fragmentation and lack of competition identified by the sector inquiry concerning payment infrastructures; recalls that the first phase of the SEPA entered into force on 28 January 2008 and requires integrated clearing and settlement platforms, operating on the basis of the same rules and technical standards, emphasises that the access criteria for SEPA are fair and open; recalls also that the Payment Services Directive states that there should be no other discrimination on access to payments systems other than those necessary to safeguard against risk and to protect the financial and operational stability;
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Notes that the Commission has repeatedly, in a recent decision, qualified multilateral interchange fees as anti-competitive and consequently requested the industrya relevant undertaking to abolish them; is of the opinion that the Commission should provide stakeholders with clear indications, guidelines and transparency requirements that could enable the industry to ensure a fair and transparent calculation method, compatible with EC competition law;