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Activities of Adam SZEJNFELD related to 2015/2346(INI)

Plenary speeches (1)

Non-tariff barriers in the Single Market (A8-0160/2016 - Daniel Dalton) PL
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2015/2346(INI)

Amendments (21)

Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
A. whereas participants and observers of the single market over the years consider that it makes a significant contribution to European economies;
2016/01/28
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
B. whereas, more than 20 years after the launch of the single market, bureaucracy, legal regulation that is very often disproportionate to its purpose and non- tariff barriers (NTBs), often motivated by protectionism, continue to bedevil trade between Member States;
2016/01/28
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
C. whereas 25 % of regulated professions are regulated in only one Member State, and whereas the regulation of these professions is very often unnecessary or, even if justifiable, excessive;
2016/01/28
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
E. whereas for consumers, gaps in the single marketthe implementation of EU law in a way that is incomplete or at odds with the objectives of the single market, and also over- regulation or protectionism by Member States or corporations, lead to less product choice and to goods and services being more expensive;
2016/01/28
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Realises that despite the removal of tariff barriers since 1 July 1968, the free movement of goods and services has continued to be hampered by non-tariff barriers (NTBs) such as national technical rules and requirements governing products and service providers; believes that the frequent unjustified use of bureaucracy is making the situation worse;
2016/01/28
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Recognises that national-level differences may emerge owing to multi- level governance, leading to internal NTBs within a Member State; believes that the need for measures to be proportionate and in furtherance of legitimate public policy objectives should be well-understood at all levels of regulatory decision-making, not just at Member State level but also at EU level;
2016/01/28
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
6. Believes that the objective of the Union should be the eventual abolition of NTBs that cannot be justified; unjustified barriers to the free movement of persons, goods, services and capital, which are non-tariff barriers, and the curbing of excessive bureaucracy and regulation;
2016/01/28
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Draws attention to the issue ofharm caused by over-regulation and ‘gold- plating’, i.e. the tendency of national governments to load transposed directives with additional rules that are not required under EU law and add to business burdens and costs;
2016/01/28
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. Believes that unequal application of the same rules in different Member States has the potential to create new NTBs; considers that transposition workshops should be held in order to minimise divergencehe process of implementing transposed directives should be better coordinated by means, for example, of specialised transposition workshops, in order to minimise divergences in the individual Member States’ legal systems at an early stage;
2016/01/28
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
14. Believes that since economies of scale are reduced by the need to run different product lines, the burden falls disproportionately on SMEs many ways, whether legal, financial or other, SMEs bear a disproportionate share of the burden in comparison with companies operating on a different scale;
2016/01/28
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Draws attention to the low levels of cross-border public procurement, with less than 20 % of all public procurement in the Union publicised on pan-European platforms; calls on the Commission to make it easier for SMEs to participate in public procurement;
2016/01/28
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
20. Calls on the Commission to act decisively to improve the application of mutual recognition; anticipates, in that context, the Commission’s plans to increase awareness and revise the Mutual Recognition Regulation, with a view, among other things, to improving instruments for resolving disputes in connection with inadequate implementation or application of the mutual recognition principle;
2016/01/28
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
22. Draws attention also to the various restrictions in Member States as regards, among other things, the legal form of service providers and their shareholding or management structure, and as regards restrictions on the joint exercise of the profession; considers that corporate regulations are just as detrimental to the single market as national regulations; considers that these restrictions are serious obstacles to cross-border service provision;
2016/01/28
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
26. Points out that many of the Member States’ regulations on the access and exercise of regulated professions are disproportionate and create unnecessary regulatory obstacles to the mobility of professionalprotectionist, as they create unjustified regulatory obstacles hindering access to many professions and the mobility of service providers in regulated professions and their workers;
2016/01/28
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 a (new)
28a. Calls on the Commission to review the legislation on the exercise of regulated professions in the Member States and to start a process of derogation and deregulation of laws in this area and of liberalisation of access to regulated professions, including the liberal professions in the Union;
2016/01/28
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 182 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
29. Highlights the peer review on retail establishment carried out by the Commission in 2014-2015, which showed that retailers often face disproportionate and inappropriate establishment and operating conditions and procedures in the single market;
2016/01/28
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 184 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 a (new)
29a. Points out that Member State laws often treat retail and wholesale business as a lesser form of business, denying the sector, including SMEs, the type of support for economic activity available in other sectors;
2016/01/28
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 b (new)
29b. Points out that some Member States are introducing rules discriminating against economic activity in the retail or wholesale sector on the basis of the surface area on which the activity is carried out, the size of the undertaking or the origin of the capital, which is inconsistent with the idea of the single market and the principles of free competition and restricts the development of the labour market;
2016/01/28
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 192 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
31. Calls on the Commission to set out best practices on retail establishment and the conditions for introducing operational restrictions in the single market;
2016/01/28
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 203 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
33. Calls on the Commission to deepen its work on enforcement and the principles which underpin the single market; believes that early intervention with regard to national measures or implementation procedures which constitute NTBs may be effective and results more readily achieved than through infringement proceedings; underlines, nevertheless, that for serious or persistent failures or misapplication of Union law, particularly in areas of single market and economic interesmatters of principle affecting the idea, principles and provisions of a single market, the Commission may prioritise infringement actions;
2016/01/28
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 208 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
34. Calls on the Member States to view the single market as a joint initiative which requires coordinated and collective maintenancecommon good and a condition for making the EU economy competitive, including in the global market; believes that those who ultimately suffer the consequences of NTBs are domestic consumers, who are denied access to new entrants to domestic markets, and face higher costs, inferior quality and reduced choice; considers that Member States should dedicate further time to horizontal single market concerns and to identifying areas requiring priority action by one or more Member States, in order to maintain and further the single market;
2016/01/28
Committee: IMCO