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Activities of Fulvio MARTUSCIELLO related to 2020/2223(INI)

Plenary speeches (1)

Competition policy – annual report 2020 (debate)
2021/06/07
Dossiers: 2020/2223(INI)

Shadow reports (1)

REPORT on competition policy – annual report 2020
2021/05/18
Committee: ECON
Dossiers: 2020/2223(INI)
Documents: PDF(244 KB) DOC(95 KB)
Authors: [{'name': 'Johan VAN OVERTVELDT', 'mepid': 125106}]

Amendments (24)

Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls on the Commission to impose penalties for all forms of economic boycott in a Member State against products from a specific geographical area, recognising the boycott as a serious form of distortion of competition;
2021/02/03
Committee: ECON
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Believes that a strict and impartial enforcement of EU competition rules by independent competition authorities can make a significant contribution to key political priorities; emphasises its importance also in crisis conditionny intervention regarding imbalances, to protect fair competition, should be mitigated in order to protect freedom of contract, which is fundamental to the well-being of businesses;
2021/02/03
Committee: ECON
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Is of the view that in the absence of a globally homogeneous competition policy, EU undertakings should be able to compete in global markets on an equal footing; calls on the Commission, therefore, to change its competition policy in order to promote serious industrial development, including by encouraging the emergence of European champions in sectors of strategic importance, while taking care not to favour certain mergers to the detriment of others;
2021/02/03
Committee: ECON
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Commission to provide adequate protection for consumers in making informed choices of product by prohibiting misleading or evocative advertising which highlights ingredients that are not contained in the product, so as not to undermine the principle of competition, unless such a practice is for medical purposes;
2021/02/03
Committee: ECON
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Stresses that unfair competition between Member States hinders the proper functioning of competition policies and the single market;
2021/02/03
Committee: ECON
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on the Commission to legislate in relation to the ban on protecting intellectual property rights for inventions or discoveries concerning vaccines designed to treat endemic or pandemic infectious diseases in the world population;
2021/02/03
Committee: ECON
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on the Commission urgently to define the concept of economic unit within the Temporary Framework for State aid measures, taking a substantive approach that takes into account the aid needed by individual undertakings irrespective of whether or not they are part of a group; is of the view that a clear definition of 'economic unit' is necessary in order to avoid differences in interpretation among Member States;
2021/02/03
Committee: ECON
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Stresses that EU funds allocated for the reconstruction of the economies of EU Member States affected by the pandemic must be assigned in accordance with EU competition rules;points out that, particularly with regard to the telecommunications sector, Recovery and Resilience Facility resources should not be assigned to vertically integrated operators which have a monopoly over infrastructure, as this would distort competition from alternative operators and ultimately have a negative impact on consumers; calls on the Commission, to that end, to introduce monitoring and control mechanisms to prevent any distortion of competition rules in the telecommunications sector as a result of the allocation of Recovery and Resilience Facility resources;
2021/02/03
Committee: ECON
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Calls on the Commission, in its revision of the Consumer Credit Directive (CCD), to ensure there is genuine competition between consumer credit operators, which is essential in order to foster post-COVID economic recovery, by promoting, inter alia, ease of access, comparability of offers and transparency in the cost of credit; recommends, in this regard, that a distinction be made, for the purposes of the total cost of the credit, between the direct costs incurred by the economic operators and the indirect costs incurred by consumers (such as taxes and charges for third-party services), which are therefore non-refundable;
2021/02/03
Committee: ECON
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Calls for reflection on possible distoron the Commission and the European Banking Authority to allow a temporary modifications of competition arising from the European Central Bank’s pandemic emergency purchase programme (PEPP) and corporate sector purchasing programme (CSPP)the 90-day term relating to 'past due' rules and a temporary extension of the time frame provided for in the NPL rules with regard to so-called calendar provisioning in the Capital Requirements Regulation 2 (CRR2); points out that the aim of this is to avoid a credit crunch and an artificial reduction in competition;
2021/02/03
Committee: ECON
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Expresses its concern about distortive state-funded competition from Chinese and other foreign undertakings acquiring European undertakings, especially those active in innovative technologies;
2021/02/03
Committee: ECON
Amendment 152 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Expresses its concern about distortive state-funded competition from Chinese and other foreign undertakings acquiring European undertakings, especially those active in innovative technologies and those active in promoting the green recovery, the use of renewable energy, decarbonisation and modernisation towards clean and circular industry;
2021/02/03
Committee: ECON
Amendment 161 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Stresses the need to protect competition on the European market from any form of unfair dumping - be it economic, social, fiscal or environmental - by non-EU economic operators who are not subject to compliance with environmental sustainability and health safety standards similar to those in Europe;
2021/02/03
Committee: ECON
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11 a. Calls the Commission to support and increase public private parterships with the paper packaging industry in order to promote innovation in support of the milestones of the UE legislation, namely the Single Use Plastic Directive;
2021/02/03
Committee: ECON
Amendment 166 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 b (new)
11b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States in this regard, pending consideration of the proposal on the carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM), to adapt EU trade defence instruments in order to safeguard the public and private investments needed to achieve the EU's ambitious climate targets, while protecting the competitiveness of the industrial sectors involved in the green transition and ensuring the highest standards of consumer health protection and health security;
2021/02/03
Committee: ECON
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. Is of the opinion that the Union and the Member States need targeted policies and investments to reindustrialise and re- shore jobs and value chain activitiesstrengthen value chain activities and EU industrial base;
2021/02/03
Committee: ECON
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. Is of the opinion that the Union and the Member States need targeted policies and investments to reindustrialise and re- shore jobs and value chain activities; points out that these policies and investments should aim to protect and promote, in particular, those sectors and jobs that are involved in protecting consumers' health and achieving the objectives of the Green Deal and in Europe's transition towards a circular economy;
2021/02/03
Committee: ECON
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Calls for, accordingly, strong support for investment in research and development by European industry, as part of the transition to a sustainable development model based on renewable and recyclable energy and materials, aimed at supporting the competitiveness of European industry vis-à-vis non-EU competitors whose production processes are not subject to the same ambitious environmental sustainability criteria as those determined at the EU level;
2021/02/03
Committee: ECON
Amendment 179 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Reiterates the need, in this regard, to promote technologies and production policies at EU level that lead to a significantly reduced environmental impact, giving particular priority to scientific end-of-life assessments using objective, measurable and shared parameters that take account of the entire value chain;
2021/02/03
Committee: ECON
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13 a. Calls the Commission to work on programmes with the paper packaging industry to enable the industry to continue its pro-innovation goals and achieve best enviromental outcomes;
2021/02/03
Committee: ECON
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14 a. Supports the Commission’s strategy to eliminate the negative effects caused by extraterritorial measures of foreign countries on the EU supply chain and Internal Market;
2021/02/03
Committee: ECON
Amendment 215 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
18. Calls on the Commission to consider proposals to prohibit platforms from engaging in self-pBelieves, however, that unilateral sanctions and trade barriers based on protectionist grounds, notably in the case of 5G, should be avoided ; calls therefeorencing or operating in lines of business that depend on or interoperate with the platform, as well as to require platforms to make their services compatible with competing networks to allow for interoperability and data portability on the Commission and the Member States to uphold the main principles of the 5G toolbox, one of which is the need for all industry players to enjoy a level- playing field, without discrimination based on their origin, as long as they comply with the technical and facts-based criteria;
2021/02/03
Committee: ECON
Amendment 248 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
21. Considers that Parliament should play an active role in the political debate on competition policy, including through organising a public hearing with the CEOs of GAFA (Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Huawei, Ericsson, Nokia, Samsung);
2021/02/03
Committee: ECON
Amendment 286 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Considers that aid for maintaining employment and achieving full employment, which is necessary to compensate for the external diseconomies present in areas that are considerably lagging behind, is also consistent and coherent;
2021/02/03
Committee: ECON