9 Amendments of Pascal CANFIN related to 2011/2094(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Believes that improved price transparency is essential in stimulating competition in the single market and offering real choice to consumers; deems that competition policy should contribute to promoting and enforcing open standards and interoperability in order to prevent technological lock-in of consumers and clients by a minority of market players;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes the complexity of the food supply chain and the lack of transparency in food pricing; believes that an improved analysis of costs, processes, added value, volumes, prices and margins across all sections of the food supply chain, in line with competition law and commercial confidentiality, will improve price transparency and choice for consumers; recalls its demands to the Commission to carry out a competition inquiry in the agro-food industry to investigate the effect of the market power that major suppliers and retailers hold on the functioning of that market;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes the increase in energy prices and the negative impact this has on consumers, especially the elderly and vulnerable; recalls its invitation to the Commission during the early steps of the implementation of the third energy package to closely monitor the level of competition since the three largest players still represent about 75 % (electricity) and above 60 % (gas) of the market despite the gradual opening of the markets in the mid-1990s; invites the Commission to issue guidelines in order to improve access of renewables to the energy network;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Stresses that priority should be given to developing the renewable energy sector and energy savings, and that European competition policy, particularly in relation to state aid, must not have the effect of obstructing incentive measures introduced by the public authorities in this area;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Recalls that services of general economic interest are subject to European competition rules only in so far as the application of such rules does not obstruct the performance, in law or in fact, of the particular tasks assigned to them;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Considers that all social services meeting basic needs, particularly as regards access to healthcare, child care, professional training, work, social housing and social inclusion for vulnerable persons, should be exempted from the competition rules;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 c (new)
Paragraph 7 c (new)
7c. Regrets the potentially detrimental effect of the total liberalisation of the postal sector on the quality of this service of general economic interest, and considers that a thorough and independent study should be carried out as quickly as possible to examine the impact of the postal services directives on the quality and universality of the service, the costs to consumers, and the level and quality of jobs in this sector;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 d (new)
Paragraph 7 d (new)
7d. Recalls its invitation to the Commission to examine in its next annual report the extent to which the concentration of critical raw materials suppliers may be harmful to the activity of client sectors and a more eco-efficient economy since some of these are of paramount importance for the deployment of eco-efficient technologies such as photovoltaic panels and lithium-ion batteries;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 e (new)
Paragraph 7 e (new)
7e. Deems that the forthcoming Commission proposal on EU 2020 Project Bonds could and should be a major vector for the development of services of general interest in the Member States as well as at the European Union level; underlines that procedures established with that purpose should be explicitly laid down in a project eligibility framework to be defined following the ordinary legislative procedure;