7 Amendments of Cecilia WIKSTRÖM related to 2012/2030(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Believes that the commission should focus more on presenting actual legislative proposals as opposed to numerous framework documents listing measures that have already been awaited and often postponed for several years;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Believes that an increased use of regulations instead of directives to regulate important aspects of the internal market would reduce the problems caused by incorrect or fragmented implementation of EU directives in national legislation, in this respect also recalls that correlation tables should always be included in directives relating to the internal market;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Considers that digital books and audiobooks for download on the Internet, digital books and audiobooks on a different physical means of support and physical books and audiobooks should all benefit from the same preferential treatment with regards to reduced VAT- rates, in this respect welcomes the decision of France and Luxembourg to introduce the same VAT rate for all these types of books;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Calls on the commission, in the interest of non-discrimination of goods and services of a particular type, to urgently clarify that it will not bring any legal actions towards member states that decide to introduce the same reduced VAT rates for downloadable digital books and audiobooks as on comparable products on a different physical means of support and in this respect considers the intentions of the commission to come back with a proposal on this topic by the end of 2013 to be completely inadequate;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2c. Looks forward to the prompt adoption by the Commission of the review of the European Trademark System as a this is a crucial building block for a well functioning internal market;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. RegardWelcomes the Commission's proposal for mutual recognition of eIdentification and eAuthentication and for digital signatures with great interest;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Strongly supports measures both at a member state and active campaign to prevent productt a European level to prevent the sales of counterfeiting aned product piracys on the Internet;