5 Amendments of Konstantinos POUPAKIS related to 2013/2153(INI)
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Α a (new)
Recital Α a (new)
Αa. whereas utility services are common to all European societies and essential to the European social model;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Stresses the need for consumers to have access to affordable and high quality utility services throughout the EU, given that they are essential to ensuring social and territorial cohesion while contributing to European economic competitiveness;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Stresses the fundamental role of utility services in improving quality of life and combating social exclusion and isolation;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Stresses the need for adequate safeguards to protect vulnerable consumers, particularly regarding the provision of utility services, by ensuring affordable rates, with special concessions and arrangements for those in low income brackets;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Stresses the need to avoid the practice followed in certain Member States of collecting taxes owed to the State in conjunction with utility bills; notes that such practices hurt mainly vulnerable consumers, whose bills may as a result be inflated out of all proportion and who may thus find themselves at risk of essential services being cut off;