13 Amendments of Costas MAVRIDES related to 2019/2131(INI)
Amendment 78 #
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8 a. Stresses that, by enabling personalised micro-targeted advertisements personal and behavourial data provide an important source of revenue for platforms; considers that such micro-targeting puts market power in the hands of the few platforms holding most personal data and, when it concerns political advertisements, endangers the functioning of our democracy by strengthening echo chambers and; calls on the Commission to draft legislation that severely constrains personalized and behavioural targeted advertisement;
Amendment 152 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9 a. Recalls that abuse of market power can take place even when products or services are supplied for free; believes that the passing on of private data to third parties for marketing or commercial purposes is frequently done without the consumer’s proper consent, as alternatives to sharing data are often not provided; considers that in the digital economy, the concentration of data in a small number of companies leads to market failures, excessive rent extraction and a blocking of new entrants; calls on the Commission to consider the structural unbundling of digital monopolies to restore competition and a level playing field in the European digital market;
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Draws the Commission’s attention to recent acquisitions by foreign monopolies of digital operators of health and educational data and the privacy risks involved, over and above the damaging effects of these transactions on competition and calls on the Commission to prevent competition amongst companies to gather personal health and educational data;
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Stresses that, while intermediation platforms play a major role in access to consumers for online services, some abuse their privileged position by acting as gatekeepers; calls on the Commission to give explicit attention in its competition policy to these gatekeepers and to conclude its preliminary investigation into Spotify’s complaint about Apple’s anticompetitive practices and to launch a formal procedure as soon as possible;
Amendment 207 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Points out that the heavy fines imposed are often discounted in advance by businesses and ultimately passed on to consumers; calls on the Commission to impose a new framework for fines, including the possibility of data fines which obliges companies to open source a specific percentage of their raw anonymised data in order to generate more competition;
Amendment 263 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Reiterates that taxation is sometimes used to grant indirect State aid, creating an uneven playing field in the internal market; and promulgating a race to the bottom in corporate taxation levels; calls upon the Commission to be particularly strict in investigating tax benefits to multinational corporations;
Amendment 293 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Calls on the Commission to examine the discrepancies between the rules on State aid in the area of liquidation aid and the resolution regime under the Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive, and following that to revise its 2013 Banking Communication accordingly; taking into account the need to allow for the orderly resolutions for struggling, systemically important banks;
Amendment 308 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Calls on the Commission to report regularly to Parliament and on its website on the implementation and monitoring of cooperation agreements with reference to competition and to involve it in its international activity;
Amendment 316 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Stresses the desire for a greater role for Parliament in determining and developing competition policy, along the lines of that played by the US Congress, which even has the power to launch investigations;
Amendment 325 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Calls on the Commission to organise multisectoral and interinstitutional forums involving national regulators and national consumer groups and mediators of individual data (such as union-like organizations) to decompartmentalise competition policy;
Amendment 327 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)
Paragraph 27 a (new)
27 a. Stresses that the current complaint form for state aid cases asks for many specific details on when state aid has been accorded, which ordinary citizens can’t possibly know and therefore calls on the Commission to simplify the complaint form, in order to give ordinary citizens the possibility to send in complaints;
Amendment 329 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 b (new)
Paragraph 27 b (new)
27 b. Regrets the lack of information provided during the Commission’s investigation of submitted complaints; calls on the Commission to give the complainant a confirmation of receipt as well as a notification upon the launch of the investigation, including an expectation of the length of the investigation;