20 Amendments of Alain LAMASSOURE related to 2016/2100(INI)
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas competition prevents the over-concentration of economic and financial power in the hands of a few; and stimulates actors by providing an incentive for them to be dynamic and innovative and to differentiate themselves in the markets;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas competition policy keeps markets efficient and open, thus leading to lower prices, the emergence of new actors, better-quality products and services and greater choice for consumers, also promoting innovation and growth;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas EU competition policy is interdependent with other major EU policies, including tax, industrial and digital policies, the coordination of which is intended to ensure compliance with the fundamental principles enshrined in the Treaties, in particular transparency and loyalty;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. WStresses that the improvement and development of the functioning of the single market go hand in hand with the development of competition policy; welcomes the Commission’s goal of opening up new opportunities for citizens and businesses by allowing people, goods, services and capital to move freely within the single market; welcomes the Commission’s use of the various instruments at its disposal, including control of mergers, combating abuse of a dominant position and anti-competitive practices, combating cartels, control of state aid, coordination with national competition authorities and sectoral inquiries;
Amendment 140 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission to take more ambitious steps to eliminate obstacles to online competition, in order to ensure barrier-free online shopping free of barriers and geographic discrimination for EU consumers purchasing from sellers who are based in another Member State; stresses that the Commission should adopt flexible measures to adapt to the fourth industrial revolution, characterised by digitisation and robotisation;
Amendment 159 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses that the sharing economy is offering EU consumers numerous innovative products and services; reiterates that beside the taxation and security aspects, the Commission should also examine its competition aspects; underlines that national or EU rules must not impose the same conditions for different kinds of services; stresses the need to guarantee a high level of consumer and personal data protection in connection with the digital single market;
Amendment 184 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Calls on the Commission to bring forward a regulatory strategy taking into account technology convergence and, in particular, the multiplication of platforms; recalls that for this purpose ex ante sectoral regulations must balance defence of pluralism, freedom of expression, protection of personal data, protection of the consumer’s autonomy and freedom of choice and equal promotion of competing offers in Europe and of convergent offers for European champions in international competition; calls for inequalities in the balance of power to be corrected and for situations of dependency between economic operators to be alleviated with a view to achieving a fair sharing of value;
Amendment 209 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Welcomes the overhaul of the state aid rules; reminds the Member States, nonetheless, that the aim was to better target aid measures towards economic growth, quality job creation and social cohesion; also reminds the Commission of the need to prevent certain governments from acting in bad faith as they do when misspending EU funds; stresses that the requirement for assessment of aid schemes introduced by the modernisation of state aid policy will serve to gather the information needed to better understand the impacts of notified schemes, improve the implementation of competition policy and inform future policy-making by Member States and the Commission; suggests that a specific annual report be sent to Parliament;
Amendment 266 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Underlines the importance of the Commission’s investigations into state aid of a fiscal nature, which provide necessary support for the European and international tax agenda, especially in the fight against aggressive tax planning;
Amendment 289 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the Commission to keep its cartel enforcement record strong and effective in all cases where it has sufficient evidence of infringement; points out that competition policy enables competitors to cooperate in innovation without that cooperation being abused for anti- competitive ends; welcomes last year’s five decisions relating to a total of EUR 365 million in fines; also calls, however, for extra vigilance regarding airlines’ ‘anti- competitive cooperation practices’;
Amendment 302 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Calls on the Commission to present a legislative proposal establishing a framework for EU coordination of national competition authorities on merger control;
Amendment 329 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Recalls that Article 42 TFEU accords the agricultural sector a special status as regards competition law that is specified in the latest reform of the common agricultural policy by strengthening the position of farmers in the food supply chain and allowing for general or specific derogations to Article 101 TFEU;
Amendment 337 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 b (new)
Paragraph 20 b (new)
20b. Notes that the increased volatility of agricultural prices and the crises in the agricultural markets, especially in the dairy sector, accentuate the structurally weak position of farmers in the food supply chain;
Amendment 341 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 c (new)
Paragraph 20 c (new)
20c. Considers that the lack of clarity as to the scope of these derogations, difficulties in implementation and the lack of uniform application by national competition authorities do not provide sufficient legal certainty for farmers and their organisations wishing to apply the right of derogation;
Amendment 345 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 d (new)
Paragraph 20 d (new)
20d. Calls on the European Commission to adopt new initiatives to take better account of the specific nature of agriculture in the application of competition policy and to ensure a complete and satisfactory implementation of the general derogation for agriculture and the specific derogations for the dairy, olive oil, beef and veal, and arable crops sectors;
Amendment 348 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 e (new)
Paragraph 20 e (new)
20e. Calls on the Commission and the national competition authorities to address the concerns raised by the cumulative impact at the upper end of the food supply chain of national-level concentration in the distribution sector and the development of European-level alliances of distributors;
Amendment 369 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Encourages the Commission to provide analytical methods for the definition of new relevant markets with the digitalisation of the economy and in particular with the phenomenon of convergence of technologies and the commercial use of personal data on a large scale;
Amendment 404 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Calls on the Commission to put forward a proposal for EU action to ensure that the national competition authorities are more effective enforcers and act in a coherent and convergent fashion, so that the full potential of the decentralised system of EU competition enforcement can be realised;
Amendment 426 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Welcomes the Commission’s initiatives for public consultation in applying merger control and invites it to discuss the results with the European Parliament;
Amendment 427 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 b (new)
Paragraph 26 b (new)
26b. Calls for extension of the dialogue between European institutions and national competition authorities, in particular to include exchanges of views with the parliamentary committees of the European Parliament;