Activities of Jürgen CREUTZMANN related to 2010/2278(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Single market for Europeans (A7-0072/2011, António Fernando Correia De Campos) (vote)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on a Single Market for Europeans PDF (335 KB) DOC (252 KB)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions: Towards a Single Market Act for a highly competitive social market economy - 50 proposals for improving our work, business and exchanges with one another
Amendments (54)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Takes the view that the internal market needs to be corrected in ordCalls on the Commission and Member States to ensure that services of general economic interest (SGEI) can easily be operated at the appropriate level, adhere to provide SGEI within a framework of universal access, high quality and affordability; takes the view that the Commission's proposal is not sufficient, and regclear financing rules, are of the highest possible quality and accessible to all; emphasises the importance of developing infrastructurets that it does not make reference to any legislative proposal, except in respect of concessions and public procurementfor the large network industries, including energy, transport services and electronic communications;
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the Single Market is one of the main drivers of European growth and should be a real economic pillar of the EU by overcoming economic and competitiveness divergences, distortions and the uneven treatment of European enterprises andcompetitiveness of the European economy, which should strive to create a level playing field for enterprises and equal rights for all European citizens,;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the Single Market is cannot only an institutional structure, facing economic, financial and social challenges, but also a way of protectbe regarded in purely economic terms, but as embedded in a wider legal framework providing specific fundamental rights tof citizens, consumers, workers and smallbusinesses, particularly small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs),;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to introduce clear-cut legislation which defines SSGI on the basis of fundamental rights rather than economic prospects, strengthens the principles of subsidiarity and lfacilitate the application of EU rules by clarifying the criteria for the compatibility of state aids for social self- government and excludes SSGI from the application ofrvices of general interest (SSGI) and public procurement with the internal market rules;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas too many obstacles stand in the way of citizens and SMEs wishing to move, shop, sell or trade across borders, and a lack of portability in social security rights, corporatism and red tape reduce the free movement of workers, service providers and professionalhe free movement of persons, businesses, services and capital is still hindered by, among others, red tape, insufficient harmonisation of rules, divergent or incorrect implementation and enforcement of EU legislation in the Member States and low portability of social security rights,
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3 a. Calls on the Commission to safeguard the principle of subsidiarity and refrain from proposing a directive on concessions, given the substantive cultural differences between Member States in this field;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Asks for the inclusion of a binding social clause in all relevant single market legislation, with a view to ensuring that competition rules respect fundamental rights and protecting and upholding the right to collective action and the right to strike in the corespect, in all legislative proposals, of Article 9 of the Treaty on the Funtioning of the European Union, in particular with regard to the promotion of a high level of employment, the guarantexte of the four freedoms; demadequate social protection ands the establishment of a special social chamber of the ECJ, with judges specialising in labour and social lawfight against social exclusion and of the Union's growth and jobs objectives;
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the lack of a holistic vision for other horizontal policies, such as health, social and consumer protection, labour law, the environment and sustainable development, hampers the Single Market enlargementcompletion of the single market requires a holistic vision, integrating all relevant policies into a single market strategic objective, encompassing not only competition policies, but also, amongst others, industrial, consumer, energy, transport, digital, social, environment, climate change, trade, tax, regional, justice and citizenship policies,
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the Single Market allows European consumers more choice at lower prices, especially for those who live in less accessible areas and those who suffer from reduced mobility,
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 d (new)
Paragraph 4 d (new)
4 a. Welcomes the proposed Decision establishing a European Radio Spectrum Action Programme, in particular the freeing of the 800 MHz digital dividend band by 2013 to allow broadband coverage of rural areas and fast internet access for all citizens;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls for a revisWelcomes the announced legislative initiative on the implementation of the Posting of Workers Directive (96/71/EC1 ) with a view to protecting Member States‘ labour standards and industrial relations systems, including collective bargaining and different forms of collective action, and upholding the principle of equal pay for work of equal value rather than simply referring to minimum ratesensure respect of posted workers rights and clarify the obligations of national authorities and businesses. Calls on the Member States' to remedy shortcomings in the implementation and enforcement of the directive (96/71/EC);
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 1
Subheading 1
I. Core objectivesIntroduction
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Believes that any reform of second- pillar pension systems should be aimed at reinforcing and complementing the first pillar, which guarantees adequate pensions; reminds the Commission that many Member States have a well- functioning first-pillar system in place; urges the Commission to take note of this and to use these examples as benchmarks acrosspension systems should generally continue to be regulated at the national level, following the principle of subsidiarity; however calls on Member States to coordinate their pension policies more effectively and to exchange best practices at European level in order to overcome common financial and demographic challenges; calls on the Commission and Member States to advance in the improvement of the portability of pensions for mobile workers within the EU;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Considers that efforts to achieve the Single Market also need to concentrate onaddress the concerns and rights of citizens, consumers and SMEs in order to overcome the current ‘European fatigue’and bring them tangible benefits in order to win their support for European integration; points out that the confidence of citizens and consumers cannot be taken for granted but needs to be nurtured;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Points out that competitiveness of the single market and its acceptance among citizens should not be regarded as contradictory, but as mutually reinforcing objectives; underlines that confidence of the citizens is just as indispensable for the successful completion of the single market as a favourable environment for enterprises; believes that economic integration should be framed appropriately by social, environmental and consumer protection measures to achieve both objectives;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission to develop a genuine restructuring strategy which actively involves all stakeholdlaunch a consultation with the social partners, including w orkders and their representatives; takes the view that information and consultation procedures pertain to all areas of activity within a company, the strategic decisions and choices made by that company and the anticipation of their impact on employment to create a European mechanism for the anticipation of industrial restructuring, so that resources can be redirected into emerging sectors more effectively and employees can be offered more and better new opportunities;
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Welcomes the Commission's intention to revise the Professional Qualifications Directive (2005/36/EC2 ), and to consider the introduction of a professional card which wcould contain – at the very least –, among others, information on qualifications, work experience and tax compliance while observing personal data protection rules; proposes that consideration be given to combining the skills passport with the professional card so that there is a single, uniform card at EU level;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Highlights the priorities set out in the 19 proposals in accordance with five criteria – basic social rights, consumer rights, free movement of workers, free movement of goods and socially orientConsiders that the 19 proposals by the Commission need to be assessed and prioritised accorporate institutions – to provideding to their relevance and their tangible benefits for European citizens and enterprises in a feasible period of times well as their feasibility and their coherence with the other objectives of the Single Market Act;
Amendment 72 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Welcomes the Commission initiative to enhance corporate governance, with the specific goal of increasing employee involvement and improving the transparency of information provided by businesses, including management remuneration; calls for a coherent approach that involves setting high minimum standards and promoting information and consultation rights for employees and their representatives, along with boardro and social responsibility, particularly the promotion of employee shareholding schemes, the strengthening of long-term shareholder commitment and increased transparency; however rejects binding rules for com participation rights.nies in this regard;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 2
Subheading 2
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 2
Subheading 2
II. Common principles and valuesGeneral assessment of the Communication by the European Commission
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 2 b (new)
Subheading 2 b (new)
Considers that many of the Communication’s proposals are still too vague to put citizens at the heart of the Single Market, and the proliferating number of EU initiatives needs to be narrowed down to a limited number of key priorities;
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 2 a (new)
Subheading 2 a (new)
Welcomes the Commission Communication ‘Towards a Single Market Act’, and its ambition to restore the confidence of European citizens by ‘putting them at the heart of the Single Market’ with a number of specific measures;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. InsistCalls on the need to insert a ‘horizontal social clause’ in all Single Market legislation so that policy is developed centring on citizens’ basic social rights: (a) the right to take collective action, (b) workers’ rights and labour law, and (c) employment protection, anticipating the planning of industrial restructuring in accordance with Article 9 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and the Charter of Fundamental RightsCommission to take proper account of the provisions laid down in Article 9 TFEU and the European Charter of Fundamental rights when assessing the social impact of EU legislation; emphasizes that the social, economic and environmental pillars of legislative impact assessments should be given equal value;
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 – introductory part
Paragraph 7 – introductory part
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls upon the Member States and the Commission to promote communication with citizens to ensure their rights are widely known, understood and enforcapplied;
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Welcomes the various concrete proposals by the Commission to facilitate the mobility of persons in the single market;
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Stresses the need to facilitate the recognition of professional qualifications; guarantee the portability of mobile workers’ pension funds; provide training outside the classroom leading to a skills passport; and introduce the ‘youth on the move’ card; by revising the current directive and improving its implementation; believes that professional cards could be a concrete measure to facilitate mobility of professionals in the single market, at least in certain sectors; urges the Commission, ahead of its review, to carry out an impact assessment for the creation of European professional cards, taking into consideration their benefits, added-value and costs;
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Suggests to the Commission to also examine in its impact assessment to which extent the proposed professional card and ‘European Skills Passport’ could be integrated in one single card to achieve synergies;
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Welcomes the Commission’s objective to increase mobility particularly among young people; seeks further clarification of the added value of a Youth on the Move card; calls on the Commission to further pursue the possibility of creating European student mobility loans to give more young Europeans, in particular the most disadvantaged among them, the opportunity to experience a period of study, training or job placement in another country;
Amendment 140 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 c (new)
Paragraph 9 c (new)
9c. Is disappointed that the Commission's Communication on the Single Market Act does not include a proposal on further reducing roaming charges for mobile phone calls in the Single Market, since this would be one of the most tangible measures with a concrete benefit for most citizens; deplores that EU regulations seem to be the only way to achieve price caps due to a lack of competition in the telecommunications sector; urges the Commission to completely abolish roaming charges for mobile phone calls in 2011 and to propose a multiannual plan to subsequently reduce data roaming charges to zero until 2015;
Amendment 141 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 c (new)
Paragraph 9 c (new)
9c. Calls on the Commission to improve the portability of pension rights, particularly in the field of occupational pensions; believes that all other aspects of pension systems should generally continue to be regulated at national level, following the principle of subsidiarity; calls on Member States to coordinate their pension policies more effectively and to exchange best practices at European level;
Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 d (new)
Paragraph 9 d (new)
9d. Welcomes the announced legislative initiative on the implementation of the Posting of Workers Directive (96/71/EC) with a view to ensure respect of posted workers’ rights and clarify the obligations of national authorities and businesses. Calls on the Member States’ to remedy shortcomings in the implementation and enforcement of the directive (96/71/EC);
Amendment 143 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 e (new)
Paragraph 9 e (new)
9e. Calls on the Commission and Member States to ensure that services of general economic interest (SGEI) can easily be operated at the appropriate level, adhere to clear financing rules, are of the highest possible quality and accessible to all; notes that the necessity of any additional measures regarding SGEI at EU level would need to be assessed separately within the specific context of each sector, respecting the principle of subsidiarity;
Amendment 144 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 f (new)
Paragraph 9 f (new)
9f. Calls on the Commission to facilitate the application of EU rules by clarifying the criteria for the compatibility of state aids and public procurement for social services of general interest (SSGI) with the internal market; rejects legislative measures on SSGI at European level;
Amendment 145 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 g (new)
Paragraph 9 g (new)
9g. Welcomes the Commission’s proposal to create a single mortgage market, reducing barriers for mortgage providers to do business in another Member State and obstacles for citizens to obtain a mortgage in another Member State, such as lack of consumer protection, legal uncertainty and insufficient comparability of mortgage providers;
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 h (new)
Paragraph 9 h (new)
9h. Emphasises that the enforcement of fair competition and product safety in the single market calls for more effective and uniform market surveillance; proposes to the Commission to establish a common European framework for market surveillance to detect products which do not comply with EU requirements, particularly before or when entering the internal market at its external borders. Calls on the Commission to play a more active role in coordinating the activities of national market surveillance and customs authorities; calls on Member States and the Commission to deploy adequate resources for efficient market surveillance activities;
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 i (new)
Paragraph 9 i (new)
9i. Welcomes the Commission’s announced measure to ensure access to certain basic banking services; notes that scrutiny measures applied to customers who are considered to represent higher risks for banks should be objectively justified and proportionate; welcomes the proposed initiative to improve the transparency and comparability of bank charges;
Amendment 153 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls for measures to set up a legal framework for foundations, cooperatives and mutual associations, to prevent legal uncertainty and to ensure there are socially oriented corporate institutions and socially innovative corporate projects in the area of services of general interes, facilitate cross-border operations and to ensure that such enterprises are able to make the most of their innovative, social and cultural potential in the Single Market;
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
Amendment 173 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 3
Subheading 3
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
Amendment 184 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
Amendment 193 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Considers that the Communication does not stress the importanalls on the Commission and Member States to ensure that services of social services; considers this is far from the quality framework promised by the Commission Presidentgeneral economic interest (SGEI) can easily be operated at the appropriate level, adhere to clear financing rules, are of the highest possible quality and accessible to all; notes that the necessity of any additional measures regarding SGEI at EU level would need to be assessed separately within the specific context of each sector, respecting the principle of subsidiarity;
Amendment 200 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Calls on the Commission to facilitate the application of EU rules by clarifying the criteria for the compatibility of state aids and public procurement for social services of general interest (SSGI) with the internal market; rejects legislative measures on SSGI at European level;
Amendment 206 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Emphasises the lack of a Digital Single Market, and calls for the democratisation of broadband and for continuous review of the Regulation on the telecoms sector ensuring privacy, data protection, and the protection of vulnerable groupWelcomes the proposed Decision establishing a European Radio Spectrum Action Programme, in particular the freeing of the 800 MHz digital dividend band by 2013 to allow broadband coverage of rural areas and fast internet access for all citizens;
Amendment 208 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
Amendment 214 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 4
Subheading 4
IV. Short-term strategKey priorities
Amendment 216 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 – introductory part
Paragraph 17 – introductory part
Amendment 220 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Calls on the Commission to consider the following list of proposals as key priorities of the European Parliament, (a) Calls on the Commission to increase mobility of European citizens, notably by proposing a revision of the directive on the recognition of professional qualifications in 2012 and by assessing the possibility of a professional card and a ‘European Skills Passport’ in 2011, (b) Urges the Commission to completely abolish roaming charges for mobile phone calls in 2011 and to propose a multiannual plan to subsequently reduce data roaming charges to zero until 2015, (c) Calls on the Commission to draw up a multiannual action plan in 2011 for a more effective and uniform market surveillance, including a common European framework, a more active role of the Commission in coordinating the activities of national market surveillance and customs authorities and the provision of adequate resources for efficient market surveillance activities, (d) Calls on Member States to swiftly adopt the Commission proposal for a Decision establishing a European Radio Spectrum Action Programme, in particular the freeing of the 800 MHz digital dividend band by 2013 to allow broadband coverage of rural areas and fast internet access for all citizens, (e) Calls on the Commission to ensure access to certain basic banking services by means of a legislative proposal as soon as possible 2011 and to improve the transparency and comparability of bank charges with a self-regulatory initiative by the end of 2011,