10 Amendments of Marco ZULLO related to 2015/2053(INI)
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Considers that the lack of an EU unitary system for the protection of geographical indications relating to non-agricultural products creates a highly fragmented situation in Europe, arising from different national and local, sectoral or transversal rules, which have distorting effects, which hamper the harmonious development of the common market, as well as homogeneous protection of Europe's economic interests and cultural heritage and effective competition on equal terms, which prevent consumers from receiving accurate, truthful and comparable information and which are an obstacle to consumer protection;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes, therefore, the publication of the Green Paper (COM(2014)469) by the Commission and looks favourably upon the possible extension of the European Union’sis in favour of the European Union’s system of protection based on geographical indications tobeing extended to cover non- agricultural products;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Considers that this system should be based on the general principles governing the system in force for agricultural and food products, and calls on the Commission to learn the necessary lessons from the experience gained in that sector, with the aim of creating a system based on best practices and transparent and non- discriminatory principles, and which is effective, responsive and free of unnecessary administrative burden for the operators involved and includes appropriate means of dealing with fraud;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 – indent 1
Paragraph 6 – indent 1
- protect consumers more effectively and help them to make better informed choices about buying products, increasing transparency, furnishing more information about quality and origin and, ensuring traceability and obviating the risk of them being misled by false or misleading names or descriptions;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 – indent 1 a (new)
Paragraph 6 – indent 1 a (new)
- help, in particular, small and micro- enterprises, which are the source of close to 80% of the typical locally made products that could be protected under the geographical indications system; this would give them an opportunity to boost sales by means of more effective marketing operations and an incentive to cooperate more closely, given the collective nature of the scheme;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 – indent 2
Paragraph 6 – indent 2
- help effectively to combat counterfeiting, fraudulent use of the name of a geographical origin and other unfair practices which mislead the final consumer and cause harm, most of all, to micro and medium-sized enterprises which produce the vast majority of the products that could potentially receive protection and have an adverse impact on exports and on investment in research and innovation;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 – indent 4
Paragraph 6 – indent 4
- promote the development of new, skilled employment with links to local areas, with particular reference to depressed areas and to the poorest regionmost marginal regions, in many of which employment is dependent on typical locally made products, imparting a fresh impetus to vocational and craft training closely connected, which is central to the development of localities and production areas;
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 – indent 5
Paragraph 6 – indent 5
- help to increase the overall attractiveness of an area and to preserve local identities, as well as facilitating the generation of useful synergies to promote local areas and their distinctiveness, with consequent benefits also from the point of view of tourism, culture and trade, and making the most of the strong link between products and the specific geographical area in which they are produced;
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Considers that the new system, as happened in the past withwhich would take over the best features of the system currently in place for agrofood products, should represent a guarantee which is intuitively perceptible to consumers who seek high-quality products, regarding authenticity and origin, based on reliable and clear information;
Amendment 84 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Considers that the system must be based on compliance with a clear product specification, as in the case of agrofood products, but without druling out the possibility of innovation where this couraging innovationld result in greater efficiency without diminishing the product's quality or distinctiveness.