19 Amendments of Pascal CANFIN related to 2010/2053(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2
Citation 2
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 8 a (new)
Citation 8 a (new)
– having regard to the report to the President of the Commission entitled 'A new strategy for the single market',
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 8 b (new)
Citation 8 b (new)
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the Services Directive aims to complete the internal market for services while safeguarding a high level of quality and social cohesion and is intended to help accomplish the tasks laid down in Article 3 of the Treaty (ex Article 2 TEU), namely: working for the sustainable development of Europe based on balanced economic growth and price stability, a highly competitive social market economy, aiming at full employment and social progress, and a high level of protection and improvement of the quality of the environment; boosting progress in science and technology; combating social exclusion and discrimination, and promoting social justice and protection, equality between women and men, solidarity between generations and protection of the rights of the child; promoting economic, social and territorial cohesion, and solidarity among Member States; respecting the Union’s rich cultural and linguistic diversity, and ensuring that Europe’s cultural heritage is safeguarded and enhanced,
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the Services Directive is intended as an instrument for the growth of the European Union and whereas its implementation should come within the framework of the Europe 2020 strategy and the Single Market Act,
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the Directive’s impact on the economy, businesses and citizens cannot be evaluated until it has been transposed in all of the EU Member States, and its practical effects on economic activity, employment and social protection levels and quality, environmental protection and consumer service quality has become apparent,
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls on the Commission to carry out an ex post assessment of the directive's real impact on economic activity and on employment, in terms of both the number of jobs created or lost and the quality of jobs and working conditions, and to compare the findings with the impact forecast for the directive when it was adopted, as set out, on the basis of an estimate made prior to transposition, in the Commission communication entitled 'Towards a Single Market Act';
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes the factNotes that implementation of the Services Directive is creating unprecedented momentum for modernisation throughout the Member States in the form of new methods of working and evaluationa substantial administrative workload throughout the Member States and that it needs to be established whether it is also generating momentum for modernisation in the form of new methods of working and evaluation; recommends, whatever the case, that action be taken to ensure that the administrative workload that implementing the directive entails for local and regional authorities in particular remains proportional and reasonable; underlines the key role of the social partners and professional organisations in the transposition process; asks the Commission to fully involve the latter and local and regional authorities in the mutual evaluation phase;
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that most of the Member States have favoured transposition through ‘horizontal’ legislation; observes, however, that the method of transposition depends on the specific nature of the internal organisation of Member States; takes the view that an assessment should be made of the impact of the transposition method used (horizontal or sectoral) on the quality of the transposed legislation and its clarity for services providers and for the general public; calls on the Member States to ensure that the transposition process is transparent, particularly by improving the involvement of the national parliaments;
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Points out that the Member States can maintain their authorisation schemes and certain requirements if the latter are non- discriminatory, necessary and proportionate; emphasises that in this connection the Member States have maintained a number of authorisation schemes by making themwith a view to ensuring that the services market is regulated in an effective manner and have made those schemes more accessible and more transparent to service providers;
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Draws attention to the specific nature of the provisions on the right of establishment and those on the temporary provision of services in another Member State; asks the Commission to take full account of that specific nature in its evaluation; calls, in this connection, for an assessment to be made of the impact of the provisions prohibiting Member States from imposing certain requirements, including, in Chapter III of the directive, conditions of reciprocity with the Member State in which the provider already has an establishment and the application of an economic test and, in Chapter IV of the directive, an obligation to possess a specific identity document, restrictions on the freedom to provide services on a self- employed basis and requirements affecting the use of equipment and material;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Notes the Member States’ efforts to implement the mutual evaluation process; considers that the state of progress with the process does not yet allow its effectiveness to be evaluated; wishes the Commission to carry out a thorough investigation of the potential of this new method in the context of the Single Market Act and expresses surprise at the fact that, although such an investigation has yet to be carried out, the Commission is already proposing, in its communication entitled ‘Towards a Single Market Act’, to extend that method to other single-market legislation; regrets that the European Parliament and the national parliaments are not more closely involved in the mutual evaluation process;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 2
Subheading 2
Points of single contact (PSCs) and simplification of procedures
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Member States to continue improving the accessibility of PSCs and the quality and relevance of the information given to service providers, including information on the labour and tax law in force in the Member State that is of relevance to service providers, with particular reference to VAT rules; calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that the information given by PSCs is available in several languages;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls on the Commission to strengthen the synergies between the PSCs set up at national level and to develop the technical and operational tools required for such synergies; recommends that the Commission should make a direct electronic link to the Member States’ PSCs available to service providers in all the EU official languages;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Calls on the Commission, pursuant to Article 5 of the directive (Simplification of procedures), to foster the use of forms harmonised at EU level and equivalent to the certificates, attestations and other documents that service providers are required to submit;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Notes the difficulties encountered in some Member States with precisely defining the scope of the exclusions provided for by the Directive, particularly concerning social services and health services; points out that such services were excluded because of their specific nature and that they and calls for clarification of the concept of ‘entrustment’, the meaning of which appears unclear and is likely to cause confusion in connection with the notion of ‘mandate’ in the State aid sphere, and of genuinely excluded social groups, particularly in relation to childcare and support for families and individuals; stresses in particular the uncertainty surrounding the restrictive concept of ‘families and persons permanently or temporarily in need’; points out that such services were excluded because of their specific nature, that legal certainty is particularly vital in this area and that they may therefore require a sectoral Community legislative framework;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Calls for the impact of the inclusion in the directive’s scope of services of general economic interest on the operation and quality of such services to be assessed with reference to public expectations;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 b (new)
Paragraph 18 b (new)
18b. Notes that the Commission communication entitled ‘Towards a Single Market Act’ includes a commitment to bring forward, in 2011, a set of measures relating to services of general interest; expects those proposals to reflect the provisions of Article 14 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union regarding the adoption of EU regulations dealing with services of general economic interest, in keeping with Protocol No 26 on subsidiarity as regards services of general interest;