12 Amendments of Markus FERBER related to 2018/2102(INI)
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 10 a (new)
Citation 10 a (new)
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Stresses that it is the consumer who chiefly benefits from effective competition in the European single market;
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Considers that the treaty-based competition rules must be interpreted in the light of the wider European values underpinning the Union’s social market economy, notably environmental and social protection, equality considerations, consumer protection and public health, as mandated by Article 7 TFEU; takes the view, therefore, that activities which cause negative social and environmental externalities create market distortions that need to be addressed by means of competition law while, conversely, activities which bring social or environmental benefits should be explicitly taken into account when assessing treaty-based competition provisions;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Underlines the urgent need for an effective framework tailored to the challenges of the data-driven economy; notes in particular that digital platforms, in controlling ever-increasing data flows, generate considerable network externalities and economies of scale, and ultimately, by dint of excessive concentration, rent extraction and abusive market power, bring about market failures; calls on the Commission to undertake a thorough review of existing competition law instruments and strategies in order to determine whether they meet the needs of the digital age;
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Underlines the fact that barriers to entry in the digital economy are becoming increasingly insurmountable, as the more that unjust behaviour is perpetuated, the harder it gets to revert to anti-competitive effects; affirms, in this regard, that the Commission should make effective use of interim measures, while ensuring due process and the right of defence of undertakings under investigation; calls on the Commission to issue guidelines on the duration of procedures used for purposes of merger control and of investigating abuses of dominant market positions;
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Stresses that the Commission must also look at ways of denying access to relevant technical interfaces as a potential abuse of a dominant position;
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Is deeplyis alarmed at the far- reaching concentration of the food supply chain, whereby four companies, all with close financial ties, own and sell up to 60 % of the global seed market and 75 % of global pesticides, to the detriment of consumers, farmers, the environment and biodiversity alike; points out that such an oligopoly; points out that concentration of the food supply chain will make farmers even more technologically and economically dependent on a few globally integrated one-stop-shop platforms, produce limited seed diversity, re-direct trends in innovation away from the adoption of a production model which is respectful of the environment and biodiversity and ultimately, as a result of reduced competition, generate less innovation; calls on the Commission to analyse concentration in the food supply chain with particular reference to monopsonies;
Amendment 168 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
Amendment 181 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
Amendment 210 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Stresses that international cooperation is essential for the effective enforcement of competition-law principles in the era of globalisation; calls on the Commission, therefore, to vigorously promote international cooperation on competition-related issues;