15 Amendments of Andreas SCHWAB related to 2010/2137(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission to ensure that banks reimburse state aid as soon as the financial sector has recovered, ensuring fair competition within the Internal Market; stresses that it is in the long term necessary to discontinue completely all provisional state aid, particularly in the automobile sector;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on the Commission, in its annual report on competition policy, to give greater emphasis to the advantages of competition for consumers;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses the need for developing synergies between competition and consumer protection policies, including creating a European form of collective redress in accordance with the criteria laid down by the European Parliament resolution of 26 March 2009 – stipulating in particular that compensation should be paid to the identified group of people or their nominee only for the damage actually suffered – for individual victims of competition law violations;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses the need for developing synergies between competition and consumer protection policies, including creating a European form of collective redress based on the opt-in principle for individual victims of competition law violations;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Welcomes the vertical block exemption regulation, since this ensures a balance between manufacturers and distributors; points out, however, that non-compliance with the binding duration of competition clauses is in fact not at all uncommon and calls on the Commission to give particular attention to such inadmissible practices;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Takes the view that, in the context of current market monitoring, the Commission should subject joint purchasing operations at international level to close scrutiny, given that the price concessions secured through their purchasing power are clearly not being passed on to consumers in the form of lower retail prices;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Calls on the Commission once more, if appropriate, to incorporate the basis for calculating fines and the new fining principles in Regulation (EC) No 1/2003;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Recalls the need for an internal market for energy which enables consumers to buy energy at affordable prices and stresses the need rigorously to pursue the full implementation of the internal market package; calls on the Commission to ensure that mergers do not subvert the advantages of market liberalisation for consumers; points out the urgency of tackling competition distortions due to regulated energy tariffs;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Regrets the lack of progress in improving competition in the pharmaceutical sector and asks the Commission to expedite the completion of the internal market in medicines, for example by giving a greater role to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) with regard to central certification of medicines; asks the Commission to fight against patent clusters that delay the market entry of generic medicines and restrict patients’ access to affordable medicines; urges the Commission to take punitive measures in the case of misleading information campaigns against generic medicines;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Regrets the lack progress in improving competition in the pharmaceutical sector; asks the Commission to fight against abuses that may arise from the systematic practice of patent clusters that delay the market entry of generic medicines and restrict patients’ access to affordable medicines; urges the Commission to take punitive measures in the case of misleading information campaigns against generic medicines;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Proposes the creation of an EuropeanU patent and an EU-wide patent dispute settlement mechanism to tackle competition distortions caused by the current provisions on patents;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Is concerned that these measures, which are temporary in nature, might ultimately not be that temporary and points out that it is, in the long term, necessary to discontinue such measures completely, particularly in the automobile sector; urges the Commission to provide clarity on the phasing out criteria that will be used to decide on their possible extension;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Welcomes the extension of the vertical block exemption regulation, since this ensures a balance between manufacturers and distributors; points out however that the Commission has failed to take sufficient account of the specific circumstances relating to online sales, particularly with regard to the Digital Agenda and in view of its current efforts to complete the internal market for e-commerce;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 b (new)
Paragraph 18 b (new)
18b. Points out in particular that, in the light of the market monitoring measures currently being followed by the Commission, the admissibility under anti- trust legislation of joint purchases by large distributors operating at international level is debatable;
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Regrets that energy consumers in the EU continue to suffer from a distorted energy market and urges the Commission rigorously to pursue the full implementation of the internal energy market package;