4 Amendments of Lorenzo FONTANA related to 2015/0287(COD)
Amendment 22 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 1
Recital 1
(1) The growth potential of e- commerce has not yet been fully exploited. The Digital Single Market Strategy for Europe29 tackles in a holistic mannerseeks to tackle the major obstacles to the development of cross- border e-commerce in the Union in order to unleash this potential. Ensuring consumers better access for consumers to digital content and open access to information and facilitating businesses to supply digital content is necessary to boost the Union’s digital economy and stimulate overall growth. _________________ 29 COM (2015) 192 final. [COM(2015) 192 final]
Amendment 27 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) Consumers will benefit from fully harmonised rights for digital content at a high level of protection, especially as regards personal data protection. They will have clear rights when they receive or access digital content from anywhere in the EU. This will increase their confidence in buying digital content. This will also contribute to reducing the detriment consumers currently suffer, since there will be a set of clear rights that will enable them to address problems they face with digital content.
Amendment 59 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 25
Recital 25
(25) In cases where the contract is ambiguous to the consumer and does not stipulate sufficiently clear and comprehensive benchmarks to ascertain the conformity of the digital content with the contract, it is necessary to set objective conformity criteria to ensure that consumers are not deprived of their rights. In such cases the conformity with the contract should be assessed considering the purpose for which digital content of the same description would normally be used.
Amendment 113 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 1
Article 4 – paragraph 1
Member States shall not maintain or introduce provisions less stringent in respect of consumer protection diverging from those laid down in this Directive, including more or less stringent provisions to ensure a different level of consumer protectionwith a different level of protection being acceptable and assured only where the standards are higher.