17 Amendments of Kaja KALLAS related to 2015/2354(INI)
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the single market ihas underperforminggone significant positive development in recent years, but there is still room for improvement in almost all areas – in stimulating a digital-driven market, encouraging start-ups, integrating global supply chains, dealing with new business models and ensuring market facilitation, standardisation and the licensing of professionals;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes the fact that the strategy is complementary to efforts made in other areas; believes that, by building on the initiatives already being taken, the strategy has good potential to help ensure economic prosperity and make Europe attractive for investments; stresses however the need in the implementation of this strategy to avoid inconsistencies and overlaps between the different initiatives;
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Underlines the urgent need to eliminate the remaining barriers from the single market in order to achieve tangible and quick results in terms of growth, innovation, job creation, consumer choice and new business models; believes that in order to achieve these goals, we should strive towards full harmonisation of legislation, and adopt a zero tolerance policy towards unjustified barriers established by Member States;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Believes that it is necessary to adopt a common definitionbetter assess and identify the needs of ‘innovative’ start- ups and SMEs, or objective criteria, that can be used as a point of reference for the adoption of related measures; calls on the Commission to propose such a definitionfor the adoption of related measures to be effective;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission to ask the REFIT platform to address barriers to innovation and put forward proposals for ways to reduce or remove them; believes that in order to ensure better regulation, existing legislation should be reviewed and, where necessary, simplified to make it fit for purpose, while all new legislation should be future-proof and digital by default and follow the ‘think small first’ principle;
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Welcomes the Commission’s determination to address the difficulties faced by SMEs as a result of the complexity of differing national VAT regulations; extends its full support to the Commission in respect of the VAT reform; calls on the Commission to assonsiders as a priority the development of a simplified, uniform and consistent online VAT system in order to always provide to businesses the feapossibility of further coordination and, in particular, to assess the possibility of a single tax in the e-commerce sector; to report VAT online; is concerned that the absence of a threshold makes it difficult for certain SMEs to comply with the current regime; calls therefore on the Commission to review this regime in order to make it more business-friendly;
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Draws attention to the difficulties faced by businesses, and in particular SMEs and start-ups, in securing funding; calls on the Commission to further address this issue, in particular through the Capital Markets Union initiative, and by taking into account the specificity of funding that innovative businesses such as start-ups need at different development stage; calls also on the Commission, while continuing the valuable support provided to those companies through the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) and programmes such as Horizon 2020 and COSME, to explore ways of further facilitating access to them, especially for micro-enterprises, for instance by reducing calls for applications to six-month periods and further simplifying the relevant procedures;
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Welcomes the Commission’s Digital Single Market Strategy, and in particular the announced Single Digital Gateway; calls on the Commission to explore all ways of making the best use of the Single Digital Gateway, as a single end-to-end digital process for businesses, to set up and operate across the EU and therefore to help European start-ups to scale up across Europe;
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Stresses that the new security features the collaborative economy provide such as the security of payments, geolocalisation and insurance, empower consumers and therefore require to assess where ex-post remedies might be more effective than ex-ante regulations; calls in this respect on the Commission to further promote public-private cooperation in order to address the existing barriers in the collaborative economy in particular to the increased use of digital identity to build consumers trust in online transactions, to the development of digital solutions for the payment of taxes, to providing cross border insurance schemes, and to the modernisation of employment legislation;
Amendment 182 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Considers that, in the collaborative economy, the same rules should apply to the same services, with a view to ensuring a level playing field Strongly believes that only a single market approach can be taken with regard to the collaborative economy, as fragmentation of the single market through local or national rules prevents Europeand consumer safety while avoiding fragmentation that would hamper the development of new business modmpanies of the collaborative economy from scaling up at European levels;
Amendment 201 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Draws attention to the important role of standards for innovation and progress in the single market; calls on the Commission to support and reinforce European standards, including by exploiting the opportunities offered by the ongoing negotiations for a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP); stresses that standards should not be imposed top- down, but set in a market-driven, open, inclusive and competitive way in order to be easily implementable by SMEs, to avoid the risk of closed value chains, while nonetheless avoiding delays in their publication;
Amendment 276 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Takes note ofWelcomes the Commission proposal, as part of strengthening the single market for goods, to improve mutual recognition through action to increase awareness of the mutual recognition principle and through the revision of the Mutual Recognition Regulation; notes that where full harmonisation is not possible, mutual recognition should be promoted as the alternative means to reduce fragmentation in the internal market;
Amendment 281 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Considers in addition that the Commission should be more proactive in identifying sectors with high potential for cross border trade and digitalisation and where the mutual recognition principle could apply;
Amendment 309 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Emphasises, in respect of the single market in services, that there is a clear need to improve the cross-border provision of services; urges the Member States to ensure proper and more effective application of the Services Directive, while avoiding the practice of gold-plating; welcomes the Commission proposal to improve notification underunderlines, in the context of the Services Directive; agr, the neesd to extend the notification procedure provided for in Directive 2015/1535 to all the sectors not covered by that directivereduce the number of regulated professions in the internal market, by identifying those professions which are currently overregulated, and removing unnecessary professional qualification requirements;
Amendment 319 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Welcomes the Commission proposal to improve notification under the Services Directive, as the current procedure is inefficient and not transparent; believes that notification should occur earlier in the legislative process to allow for timely feedback from stakeholders and Member States and to minimise delays in the adoption of new legislation; agrees to extend the notification procedure provided for in Directive 2015/1535 to all the sectors not covered by that directive;
Amendment 326 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Supports the Commission proposal to introduce a services passport to help service providers demonstrate that they satisfy the requirements applicable to them in the Member State where they wish to provide their service on a temporary basis; considers that this initiative should be aimed atbased on the principle that a service provider provides information and documentation only once to a Member State, which is thereafter transmitted electronically to the relevant Member State, therefore meeting its objective of reducing administrative burden for service providers and simplifying the procedures applicable to cross-border service provision;
Amendment 368 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Calls on the Commission to submit, as a matter of priority, a legislative proposal to address geo-blocking and other forms of discrimination by market operators ; calls on the Commission to lay down effective criteria for assessing the unjustified character of geo-blocking to unleash opportunities for businesses to sell online and provide choices for consumers;