10 Amendments of Aldo PATRICIELLO related to 2017/2003(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
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1. Recognises the fact that all collaborative economies, covering the full spectrum from market-oriented to gift- based, are rooted in human cooperative behaviour and that no matter how diverse they are, or will become, they are all identified by resource sharing, the active empowerment of citizen operators, community- accepted innovation, and the intensive use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) as a key enabler; notes, however, the need to distinguish among the various forms of collaborative economies, between gift and market, between sharing and commercial operation, between collaboration among equals and the provision of services by professional providers;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
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2. EWhile emphasisesing that ICTs allow innovative ideas within the collaborative economies to evolve quickly and efficiently, while connecting and empowering participants, reducing the need for intermediation, decreasing direct costs and overheads, channelling rich information flows and reinforcing trust between peers, observes that the major international platforms of the so-called ‘sharing economy’, which gather and redistribute an enormous flow of information, set themselves up as new intermediaries and, in certain circumstances, may constitute a barrier to the creation and development of local collaborative economy initiatives;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
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3. Underlines that the sharing of underused assets in local communities releases a wealth of positive environmental and other externalities, thus making industries and services more resource- efficient, lowers the up-front costs of market entry and creates opportunities;
Amendment 67 #
Draft opinion
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5. Urges the Commission to ensure that the EU develops the highest international standards regarding (a) social protection for ‘workpreneurs’ in collaborative economies, (b) safety guarantees for the customers of collaborative economies similar to those already in force for the markets where they operate, and (c) cohabitation synergies with traditional business models on a level playing field in terms of similar rules applying to all operators in a particular sector;
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
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7. Emphasises the need to consider the collaborative economy not only as a business model but also as a new form of integration between the economy and society which is able to embed economic relations within social ones and to create new forms of community; points to the need, however, to distinguish between the various forms of collaborative systems, which can offer services involving donation, exchange, repayment of expenses incurred, and the market, ranging from actual sharing to profit- making activity, and including peer-to- peer collaboration and services provided by professional operators;
Amendment 95 #
Draft opinion
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7. Calls on the Commission to ensure that EU legislation and policies are future- friendly and provide legal certainty in order to unleash the full potential of collaborative economies and, more generally, of ‘doing business’ for EU businesses and citizens, while redefining and modernising – where necessary – the concepts of ‘work/service’, ‘worker’ and ‘service provider’;
Amendment 203 #
Motion for a resolution
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19. Calls on the Commission to clarify the collaborative platforms liability regime, which could in order to enhance responsible behaviour by platforms and increase user confidence;
Amendment 273 #
Motion for a resolution
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28. Stresses, further, the urgent need for collaboration between the competent authorities and collaborative platforms on tax compliance and collection, and asks for the latter to play an active roleto determine the role which collaborative platforms must play in order to ensure tax compliance and collection;
Amendment 280 #
Motion for a resolution
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29. Encourages the Member States to agree on a uniform set of information that businessepeers, professional service operators, businesses, and collaborative platforms must disclose to tax authorities in the framework of their tax information duties;
Amendment 287 #
Motion for a resolution
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30. Agrees that functionally similar tax obligations should be applied to businesses providing comparable servicespeers, professional service operators, businesses, and collaborative platforms providing comparable services, whether in the traditional economy or in the sharing economy, and is convinced that taxes should be paid where profits are generated;