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9 Amendments of Andreas SCHWAB related to 2017/2003(INI)

Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the communication on a European Agenda for the collaborative economy, and underlines that it should represent a first step towards a more comprehensive and ambitious EU strategy on it the objective of which should be a European legal framework;
2017/02/13
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
6. Considers the development of a dynamic and clear legal environment establishing a level playing field to be of paramount importance for the collaborative economy to flourish in the EU;
2017/02/13
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Commission to encourage non-profit, user-governed, collaborative practices aimed at building sharing and cooperation, and a commons- oriented approach to the collaborative economy, so as to foster the scalability of a social economy and access to open knowledge;deleted
2017/02/13
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
16. Draws attention, at to the same time, to the riskfact that establishing thresholds may create a disparity between micro and small businesses on the one side, and peers on the other; calls therefore for the legislation applicable to professional service providers to be revised in order to level the playing field among comparable categories of service providers and to remove unnecessary regulatory burdenscan provide an appropriate dividing line between peers and businesses; stresses at the same time that unnecessary regulatory burdens, in particular for micro and small businesses, must be removed;
2017/02/13
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 188 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
11a. Points out that much of what is offered in the collaborative economy is based on customer evaluations and that a good many suppliers gain a competitive advantage as a result of false evaluations; stresses therefore that there should be guaranteed checks by independent accredited bodies that evaluations are genuine;
2017/02/13
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 214 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
21. Believes that any new regulation should leverage platforms’ self-governing capacities; is convinced that collaborative platforms themselves could take an active role in such a new regulatory environment by correcting many asymmetric information and other market failures which have been traditionally addressed through regulation, especially by digital trust-building mechanisms;deleted
2017/02/13
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 229 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
22. Strongly believes, at the same time, that this self-regulating capacity does not undercut the need for regulation, especially for market failures that platforms cannot address and for other normative goals (e.g. reversing inequalities, boosting fairness, inclusiveness, and openness, etc.);deleted
2017/02/13
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 289 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
30. Agrees that functionally similar tax obligations should be applied to businesses providing comparable services, and is convinced that taxes should be paid where profits are generated and where more is involved than simply contributions to costs;
2017/02/13
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 353 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37
37. Points out the importance of adequate competences and skills, in order to enable as many individuals as possible to play an active role in the collaborative economy; is of the opinion that the potential of the collaborative economy will be fully unleashed only through effective policies of social inclusion at EU level, starting with confident and critical use of ICT as a key competence for lifelong learning strategies;
2017/02/13
Committee: IMCO