22 Amendments of Svenja HAHN related to 2019/2190(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 3 a (new)
Citation 3 a (new)
- having regard to Regulation (EU) 2019/881 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 April 2019 on ENISA (the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity) and on information and communications technology cybersecurity certification and repealing Regulation (EU) No 526/2013 (Cybersecurity Act),
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that due to the COVID-19 crisis, showed it is of paramount importance for the protection of EU citizens that in all the crises that might challenge the European Union the safety of all products needed to tackle the emergencyies is the highest, especially for medical and protective equipment, including products from outside the EUsold on line and products from outside the EU; stresses the need for online platforms and online market places to take proactive measures to tackle misleading practices and disinformation regarding emergency products sold online; calls, therefore, on the Commission and Member States to strengthen their coordinated actions within the product safety framework;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 on market surveillance but highlights that, with the exception of customs checks, it only applies to products subject to Union harmonisation legislation, while around one third of all products circulating in the EU are non-harmonised products; urges the Commission to update and establish aligned market surveillance rules, including those for for offline and online, for both harmonized and non-harmoniszed products, and make them fit for purpose in the digital age;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Points out the need to adapt product safety rules to the digital worldnew market realities and the imperatives of the green and digital transition; asks the Commission to address the challenges of emerging technologies such as 3D-printingartificial intelligence (AI), the internet of things (IoT) and, robotics and others in its revision of the General Product Safety Directive (GPSD), and to identify and close gaps within existing legislation such as the Machinery Directive and Radio Equipment Directive, while avoiding duplicating legislation;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to redefine the term ‘product’ as part of the revision of the GPSD in coordination with potential revision of other legislative frameworks such as the Product Liability Directive (PLD), so that it reflects the complexity of emerging technologies, including stand-alone software and software or updates which entail substantial modification to the product leading to a de facto new product;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Stresses that the Commission should screen the existing AI standards in place and consult with businesses and other stakeholders to understand which new standards are needed, should carry out a periodic assessment of the European regulatory framework related to AI in order to ensure the product safety, consumer and data protection;
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Encourages economic operators to integrate safety mechanisms in emerging technologies, including self-repair mechanisms, to prevent the upload of unsafe software, raise awareness of safety problems of their products, and ensure and improve safety throughout their lifecycle;
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to enhance connectivity infrastructure, including new communication technologies, like 5G, in order to also improve the safety of connected products;
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Is convinced that the cybersecurity of connected devices can compromise product safety, and that thiUnderlines that connected devices and interlinked services are subject to cyber-attacks and in order to improve the safety of products, cybersecurity concerns needs to be addressed in the revision of the relevant rules and recommendations;
Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the Commission to speed up its efforts to develop a European cybersecurity certification scheme for AI, IoT and robotics products, and to create mandatory certification schemes for consumer products that can be quickly updated to adapt to current risks without hindering innovation;
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Encourages the Commission to cooperate with the Member States in order to increase the resources and expertise of their market surveillance authorities, to enhance cooperation among them, including at cross-border level and online markets, improve the efficiency and effectiveness of checks, and properly staff custom authorities so as to be able to identify unsafe products, in particular from third countries, and prevent their circulation in the internal market;
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Urges Member States to set minimum sampling rates; and asks market surveillance authorities to carry out sector- specific mystery shopping, including from online shopping marketplaces, on a regular basis at least once a year, in particular for the product categories most notified on the Safety Gate (Rapex);
Amendment 173 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the Commission to swiftly adopt implementing acts in accordance with Regulation 2019/1020, and in particular Article 25 thereof, laying down benchmarks and techniques for checks on harmonised and non-harmonised products, and to include minimum requirements on scale and frequency of checks for products entering the Union market so as to ensure consistent, effective and uniform enforcement of Union law;
Amendment 190 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Asks the Commission to explore the option, that suppliers, which are established in a third country, have to designate a legal representative, established in the Union, who can beheld accountable for the selling of products, to European consumers, which do not comply with Union rules of safety;
Amendment 208 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Urges the Commission to further harmonise the methodology and criteria for assessing risks in all Member States in order to ensure a level playing field for all economic operators;
Amendment 219 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. EncouragesNotes that while online platforms, such as online market places, have benefited both retailers and consumers by improving choice and lowering prices, at the same time, an increasing number of non-compliant sellers - especially from third countries – are offering unsafe or illegal products in the European market, therefore urges the Commission to establish regulations in order to ensure the cooperation of the online marketplaces to react as quickly as possible to notifications from Rapex, and to cooperate effectively with the Member States’ competent authorities by immediately withdrawing unsafe products, and taking measures to avoid that they reappear; asks the Commission to create guidelines for online marketplaces on how to react effectively to unsafe products;
Amendment 228 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Asks onlinStresses that the Commission should establish clear guide lines for the marketplaces to enhance their cooperation, consult Rapex before placing products on their websites, exchange information on sellers that break the rules, take effective measures against them and their supply chain, and develop an easily accessible tool for consumers to report unsafe products;
Amendment 256 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)
Paragraph 27 a (new)
27a. Stresses that the safety of products should be a priority for the Commission in updating the legislation in order to cover security risks generated by connected products and the risks to be hacked.
Amendment 271 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 a (new)
Paragraph 29 a (new)
29a. Acknowledges, that the success of any product or innovation stands and falls with the trust placed in its quality and safety and that the EU’s goal must be to ensure this trust, especially in an increasingly digital networked world; encourages the European Commission to further develop the established and successful quality infrastructure, consisting of metrology, standardisation, accreditation, conformity assessment and market surveillance, in consultation with all partners involved, to meet these new challenges;
Amendment 281 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. Asks retailers, online marketplaces and consumer associations to play a greater role in recalls of unsafe products purchased online or offline by ensuring adequate information is available to consumers, asks the Commission to assess how new technologies and algorithms can make this process more effective and ensure that a larger number of affected consumers are reached;
Amendment 283 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 a (new)
Paragraph 31 a (new)
31a. Urges the Commission to develop legislation obliging online marketplaces, given their direct communication with consumers, to inform consumers in case they bought an unsafe or otherwise non- compliant product from their online marketplace;
Amendment 288 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33
33. Calls on Commission and Member States to foresee a non-burdensome feedback report on recalls by economic operators to be submitted to the market surveillance authorities in order to assess the effectiveness of the recall;