12 Amendments of Maria da Graça CARVALHO related to 2020/2223(INI)
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Emphasizes in particular that competition and consumer policies complement each other as they both aim to protect consumers and to ensure the normal functioning of the single market; recalls that the New Consumer Agenda presented by the European Commission as one of its objectives envisages the continuation of the fight against consumer scams, unfair marketing practices and fraud;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Recalls that the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union states that Union policies shall ensure a high level of consumer protection;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Recalls that competition rules protect the integrity of the single market and help create a level playing field for businesses, while also undoubtedly helping to better protect consumer rights and promote innovations;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Notes with concern the growing interest of external actors in strengthening and consolidating their influence in European companies in the context of the crisis caused by the pandemic; calls on the European Commission to closely monitor such trends, and in particular foreign direct investments, in order to ensure and preserve the integrity of the single market;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Recalls that 73% of the European Union's GDP is generated by services and that the single market for services is less developed than the single market for goods; considers that competition mechanisms can help strengthen the single market for services; emphasizes further that regulatory obligations must be proportionate and must in no way aim to create unjustified administrative barriers that prevent the further strengthening of the single market and fair competition;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 d (new)
Paragraph 2 d (new)
2d. Agrees that competition policy also plays a significant role in the EU’s modern industrial policy, with the aim of rendering European companies more innovative and therefore competitive internationally; stresses, however, that European self-sufficiency in the production of critical equipment such as personal protective equipment is crucial for consumer protection;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Recalls that regulating digital markets constitutes a core responsibility of the Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection; in this context, highlights the adoption of the P2B Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2019/11501 ) and notes that ex ante regulatory intervention willaims to address the gaps in ex post competition law enforcement; __________________ 1 OJ L 186, 11.7.2019, p. 57.
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Notes the two legislative initiatives recently proposed by the European Commission: the Digital Services Act (DSA) and the Digital Markets Act (DMA); stresses their important role in complementing and strengthening the competition law enforcement; notes that proposed harmonised rules, better oversight and ex ante obligations will ensure that markets characterised by large platforms acting as digital gatekeepers remain fair and competitive for innovators, businesses, and new market entrants;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Highlights the importance of a few online operators acting as gatekeepers to the digital economy, including access to e- commerce markets and the consequences on freedom of choice for consumers and access to markets for companies; in this regard particularly emphasizes that out of the 10 000 internet platforms participating in the EU digital market, the seven largest generate as much as 69% of the sector's total revenues; underlines, therefore, the need for an internal market ex ante regulatory instrument to ensure that impacted markets remain fair and competitive; looks forward to seeing this instrument in, without limiting the EU's ability to intervene ex-post via the enforthcoming Digital Markets Act proposalcement of existing EU competition rules;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses the importance of clear measures to ensure effective enforcement and supervision of competition law at the EU level; underlines that the compliance of provisions must be reinforced with effective and, proportionate and dissuasive penalties;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission to ensure fair and secure access to data for all market participants without prejudice to the rules laid down by the General Data Protection Regulation; notes that it should empower consumers to control their data and provide them with additional rights in terms of data portability and interoperability in order to ensure that the single market for data is based on both, European values and European way of life as well as on fair competition.
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Notes that some digital platforms, despite penalties, have repeatedly violated competition rules; stresses that sanctions for infringers must be effective, proportionate and dissuasive; calls, therefore, on the European Commission to examine whether the sanctions currently imposed on the various forms of infringement of competition rules are sufficiently appropriate and dissuasive and whether they meet general and special prevention; furthermore, calls on the Commission to report to the European Parliament in particular on the effectiveness of the application of structural remedies in EU Competition Law.