30 Amendments of Maria da Graça CARVALHO related to 2020/2020(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 a (new)
Citation 2 a (new)
- having regard to Directive 2011/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 March 2011 on the application of patients’ rights in cross- border healthcare,
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 9 a (new)
Citation 9 a (new)
- having regard to the letter of the Prime Ministers of the Member States to the President of the European Council from 26 February 2019, addressing the future development of the single market,
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 9 b (new)
Citation 9 b (new)
- having regard to the Special Report of European Court of Auditors on effective implementation of the Services Directive of 2016,
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B c (new)
Recital B c (new)
Bc. whereas despite of a number of measures taken to strengthen and deepen the services market, including the passing of more than a thousand national regulations to comply with the Services Directive, the full potential of the single market for services and its completion has yet to be achieved;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas a more integrated and interconnected services market is necessary to tackle climate change, create a sustainable economy, including digital commerce and unleash the full potential of the European Green Deal;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas the effective implementation of existing rules and the abolition of excessive requirements dependsas well as unjustified barriers depends primarily on the Member States;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas incompletedifferent regulatory choices at both the European and national level, imperfect and inadequate transposition and implementation of existing legislation creates an enforcement gap, since provisions not properly implemented might also be impossible to enforce effectively;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Underlines that promoting the single market, including the free movement of services and people, is paramount for tackling the economic crisis caused by COVID-19 disease; urges all Member States to ease restrictions on free movement within the single market as soon as an assessment based on epidemiological criteria shows that it is possible;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Highlights that across the European Union red tape, burdensome administrative practices and regulatory restrictions to service providers are creatings well as obstacles in the access to regulated professions often create unjustified barriers that deprive citizens of jobs, consumers of choices, and entrepreneurs of opportunities;
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Takes into consideration that the harmonisation inspired by the Professional Qualifications Directive gained success within several professions; further proclaims that Member States should reconsider and coordinate rules governing entry and exercise requirements in relation to specific activities or professions;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Notes that, due to different national implementation of the Directive 2014/24/EU on Public Procurement, there still remain legal complexities and administrative barriers for tenderers to bid within a foreign market in a public procurement procedure; urges the Commission to monitor and encourage further harmonisation of public procurement procedures which would enable all tenderers within the EU a fair and equal opportunity to provide services within the single market;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2c. Notes that public procurement procedures in Member States often create obstacles for service providers from other Member States to compete on equal footing, especially for SMEs; highlights the need for such procedures to be framed in a way that treats all possible contenders in the same way in effect, in order to avoid any form of direct or indirect discrimination;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 d (new)
Paragraph 2 d (new)
2d. Stresses the importance to address the remaining unjustified obstacles to the digital single market for example settling the costs of cross-border disputes, suppliers’ restrictions to selling cross- border, delivery-related matters, taxation rules, limited cross-border access to goods and services, access to information on the relevant regulatory requirements, complex administrative procedures, as well as ensuring that no new barriers should be created;
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Regrets that Member States frequently use reasons of public interest to insulate their domestic market; highlights that requirements such as territorial restrictions and economic needs tests create unjustified and disproportionate obstacles to cross-border establishment;
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Regrets that the Member States sometimes use the concept of non- economic services of general interest to exclude whole sectors from the scope of the internal market rules, when that is not warranted by the general interest they claim to protect; underlines the necessity for defining the term by way of EU secondary legislation to avoid national fragmentation and different interpretations;
Amendment 145 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Notes that the purpose of the Commission’s legislative proposal for a European services e-card was to address administrative barriers that remain in place; underlines that such barriers for secondary establishment situations; underlines that barriers such as lack of legal clarity and certainty, as well as lack of mutual recognition are costly to services providers, and continue to constitute a significant disincentive to the cross-border provision of services in the single market;
Amendment 154 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Urges Member States to ensure the proper implementation of current legislation, to notify the Commission of any new and draft laws, regulations or administrative provisions which set requirements as referred to in Article 15(6) of the Services Directive, together with the reasons for those requirements, and to avoid gold-plating and unnecessary requirements, thereby facilitating the cross- border provision of services and ensuring a level playing field;
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the national parliaments to actively engage in supporting theffective enforcement of existing rules, and to exercise their powers of scrutiny over national authorities;
Amendment 189 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Notes that the freedom to provide services across the EU is linked with the formal recognition of professional qualifications by the service-hosting Member State; welcomes the existing legislation addressing the professional qualifications and especially those related to regulated professions;
Amendment 190 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)
Paragraph 13 b (new)
13b. Regrets the fact that as many as twenty Member States have been late in transposing the Services Directive into national law; recalls in particular that the range of certain instruments, such as the Points of Single Contact, are still limited and that service providers are not sufficiently informed about all the possibilities provided by the Services Directive, and therefore calls on the European Commission to inform interested parties through among others, internet advertising on the possibilities provided by the Directive, in particular the Points of Single Contact mechanism;
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 c (new)
Paragraph 13 c (new)
13c. Stresses that the establishment of a dynamic market for cross-border service provision in the Union is a key component of the future competitiveness of the European economy; calls on the European Commission that the digital services legislative package addresses remaining barriers to the cross-border provision of services in order to encourage entrepreneurs to offer their services online to consumers in other countries;
Amendment 208 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 3
Subheading 3
Advancing regulatory clarity: national information portalsstrengthening the role of Points of Single Contact
Amendment 227 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 – introductory part
Paragraph 21 – introductory part
21. Recommends that the Commission assists national authorities in each Member State with creating a national single market information portal that provides consumers, employestrengthening the role of Points of Single Contact that should provide businesses, and businessother interested parties with the following information:
Amendment 239 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Recommends that national information portalsPoints of Single Contact should assist foreign companies wishing to do business within the Member State in question, as well as local companies wishing to export services and goods to other Member States;
Amendment 246 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Urges cooperation between Member States’ national information portals to ensure that companies, employees and citizenPoints of Single Contact to ensure that companies and other interested parties are provided with correct, comprehensive and up-to-date information;
Amendment 252 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Calls for the Commission to play a coordinating role in information sharing between national information portalsPoints of Single Contact;
Amendment 261 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 4
Subheading 4
Providing evaluation: the single market scoreboard, European Semester and restrictiveness indicators
Amendment 278 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 a (new)
Paragraph 30 a (new)
30a. Further recommends that the European Semester is also utilised for strengthening the single market, as the removal of the most problematic regulatory and administrative burdens is an ongoing concern;
Amendment 279 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 b (new)
Paragraph 30 b (new)
30b. Considers that the European Commission, in assessing the progress of Member States in implementing structural reforms, should also analyse the achievements in the field of realization of the economic potential of the single market;
Amendment 280 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 c (new)
Paragraph 30 c (new)
30c. Encourages the European Commission to include the mid-term activities of the Member States which aim to further remove remaining administrative and regulatory barriers in the single market for services when presenting country-specific recommendations;