15 Amendments of Marc TARABELLA related to 2016/2100(INI)
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Reminds the Commission and Member States that competitiveness is a measure of economic ability to provide the European citizens with high and rising standards of living and high rates of employment on a sustainable basis1a ; __________________ 1ahttp://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal- content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex:52002DC071 4
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Emphasises that EU competition law and authorities need to guarantee a level playing field for businesses and a real choice for consumers in the digital single market; calls on the Commission to pursue a policy of active, effective and acceleratedeffective enforcement of the competition rules, in particular in the online search services and mobile internet sector, in order to remove barriers to innovation and to enable EU consumers to seize all the opportunities that a genuine digital single market can offer; stresses that the Commission should also ensure that the digital economy e.g. platform economy are not being misused to undermine consumers and worker's rights on the single market. This can lead to resistance to developing a fair digital single market;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Emphasises that competition policy must attach the same importance to defending the interests of agricultural producers as it does to defending consumers’ interests, ensuring that the conditions for competition are fair so as to foster investment, employment and innovation in agricultural markets and the viability of agricultural undertakings;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Supports the Commission action on anti-cartel enforcement, such as recent actions in retail food and optical disc drive sectors, to guarantee fair prices to consumers;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Considers that ending roaming charges in the EU is not sufficient and that intra-EU calls must be also regulated on the same level as local calls; calls on the Commission to submit a legislative proposal for regulating intra-EU calls;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Refers to the European Court of Auditors' most recent report on non- compliance in state aid rules in cohesion policy in which they note a significant level of non-compliance and call for a number of recommendations to be implemented. It is to the detriment of a well-functioning internal market, therefore, urges the Commission to adopt the recommendations and ensure correct enforcement of the EU 65/2014 Regulation which entered into force July 2014;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Encourages the Commission to not only focus its efforts for fair competition on the high profile cases against large well-known companies, reminds the Commission that the enforcement of fair competition is also of importance towards SMEs;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. The emission scandal, which began in the US with Volkswagen, has made it clear that American consumers are better off in case of fraud and abuse of e.g. the competition rules compared to European consumers; Encourages the Commission to look into the possibility of ensuring individual compensation to affected consumers, since this may act as a deterrent to fraud and abuse thereby ensuring a fair Single Market;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 d (new)
Paragraph 4 d (new)
4d. Reiterates that all market players should pay their fair share of tax; Welcomes the Commission's in-depth investigations into anti-competitive practices such as selective tax advantages or excess profit ruling systems;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Welcomes the Commission's reflections on the need for more tools to strengthen efforts for fair competition. Refers to the possibility of setting up a travelling unit in the European Commission, which independently of Member States' efforts must be able to investigate suspected breech of competition law and unfair competition.
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Considers that the collective activities of producer organisations and their associations, such as production planning and sales contract negotiation, are necessary for achieving the aims of the CAP and that they should benefit from a presumption of compatibility with Articles 39 and 101 TFEU;
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Notes the Commission's increased use of EU pilot instead of resorting to infringement proceedings. Welcomes this approach however reminds the Commission that this should not lead to weaken enforcement of EU legislation or less transparency.
Amendment 106 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Stresses the importance of maintaining a contractual framework between the beet growers' organisations and their sugar companies so that negotiations can take place on the sharing of value, particularly in the context of the abolition of quotas in the sugar sector; calls on the Member States to ensure that this value-sharing principle is applied in all sugar beet-producing countries and maintains the balance between the parties so that the objective set in the CMO Regulation of achieving a fair balance of rights and obligations between sugar companies and sugar beet growers can be met; calls on the Commission to propose extending the contractual framework for sugar beyond 2020;
Amendment 111 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on the Commission and the national competition authorities to address the concerns raised byauthorities to grant the derogations needed to put farmers on an equal footing and to correct the imbalances connected with the cumulative impact – particularly at the upper end of the food supply chain – of, on the one hand, European-level concentration in the primary processing industry and national- level concentration in the distribution sector and, on the other, the development of European-level alliances of major distributors.
Amendment 123 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Calls on the Commission and the national competition authorities to penalise the use of unfair trading practices which affect farmers;