8 Amendments of Konstantinos POUPAKIS related to 2009/2137(INI)
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to strengthen consumer awareness and, education and training in order to empower consumers; encourages Member States to include consumer aspects in their national curricula at all levels of education to equip children with the necessary skills to take complex decisions later in life, with the longer term aim of developing and consolidating consumer awareness; points out that these programmes should be geared to educational requirements and student capabilities at each level while making use of modern teaching methods based on real life experience and examples; recalls that educated consumers who are aware of their rights and know where to turn in the event of non-compliance are also important for detecting non-compliant behaviour;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Stresses the need to promote sustainable consumption, emphasising the fact that service providers and retailers, as well as consumers, must be better educated and informed with regard to the concept of sustainable consumption so that they can adapt their behaviour accordingly;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Suggests that, in the future, the Commission develop indicators relating to market shares, quality, advertising, transparency and comparability of offers, as well as indicators related to enforcement (including data on inspections, non- compliance notifications, court cases), consumer empowerment (skills, assertiveness, education, information), coverage of consumer issues in the media, and indicators to measure redress and consumer detriment; believes that the new indicators should be included in the Scoreboard when a satisfactory level of development of the five basic indicators is reached; considers, however, that this should be done progressively in order to ensure a focused Scoreboard in the interests of a more comprehensive approach to consumer protection to enable consumers to benefit fully from the advantages offered by the internal market;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Believes that the available price data are not sufficient to monitor the internal market properly and calls on the Commission, in cooperation with national statistical services, to provide more data and to further develop its methodology for collecting average prices of comparable and representative goods and services; stresses that the provision of more transparent price data would inspire greater confidence in consumers and also show them that their everyday concerns are being addressed;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Urges all Member States, in the interests of improving consumer safety, to systematically collect and record details of accidents or injuries in a common database;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Recalls that several Member States have developed tools to monitor their national markets from the consumer perspective such as price observatories or comprehensive complaints systems for policymaking, whereas other Member States do not use data to monitor consumer markets and have difficulties in aggregating data; encourages all Member States to carry out a broad market monitoring exercise on an annual basis in order to identify markets which are failing for consumers and provide complete data which will allow the Commission to monitor and compare the problems faced by consumers in the internal marketwith this in view, stresses the need for exchange of best practice between Member States;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)
Paragraph 27 a (new)
27a. Encourages all Member States to carry out a broad market monitoring exercise on an annual basis in order to identify markets which are failing for consumers and provide complete data which will allow the Commission to monitor and compare the problems faced by consumers in the internal market;
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38 a (new)
Paragraph 38 a (new)
38a. Urges all Member States to consider the benefits of introducing a consumers' ombudsman; points out that this institution exists in some Member States as an extrajudicial body for the amicable settlement of consumer disputes, but also as a consultative body working alongside the State to resolve problems falling within its remit;