Activities of Anne-Sophie PELLETIER related to 2019/2190(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on addressing product safety in the single market
Amendments (22)
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas recent research from European Consumer Organisations has shown that 66% of products sold on online marketplaces does not comply with European safety standards;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas the European single market can only thrive if consumer rights are properly and effectively protected;
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B c (new)
Recital B c (new)
Bc. whereas the amount of consumer protection should not depend on whether a consumer shops online or in a physical shop;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B d (new)
Recital B d (new)
Bd. whereas voluntary initiatives from digital platforms and online market places have not resulted in sufficient protection of their consumers and therefore a more extensive regulatory framework is needed to ensure platform responsibility and liability;
Amendment 60 #
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 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; urges the Commission to prioritise consumer rights and legal certainty for consumers while revising the GPSD;
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Agrees AI systems should be safe in order to be trustworthy, as outlined by the High-Level Expert Group in its Ethics Guidelines for trustworthy AI; is convinced that an EU-wide approach to AI, including a common definition, is needed to avoid fragmentation of the internal market, which would undermine the protection of consumers, the trust of citizens and businesses, and create legal uncertainty and weaken the EU’s economic competitiveness;
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Encourages the Commission to develop measures, such as risk-based assessment schemes and conformity assessment mechanisms, where they do not yet exist, to ensure the safety and security of products with embedded emerging technologies, and to provide support to SMEs to reduce the burden such measures can create;
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Asks the Commission and the Member States to take account of the autonomous self-learning behaviour of AI throughout a product’s lifetime; calls for mandatory human oversight, the consumer's right to demand personal communication and effective checks on high-risk AI products to ensure product safety;
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to enhance connectivity infrastructure, including 5G, in order to improve the safety of connected products;
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Underlines the lack of financial and human resources many market surveillance authorities in Europe have faced over the last years; Encourages Member States to increase the resources and expertise of their market surveillance authorities, to enhance cooperation among them, including at cross-border level, 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 181 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Stresses that products directly purchased by consumers from non-EU economic operators must be subject to effective controls; calls on market surveillance authorities to undertake adequate checks on these products and to scrutinise online market places more actively to increase their responsibility;
Amendment 205 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Expects the Commission to prioritise product safety in its action plan for customs as customs are of paramount importance for the efficient enforcement of EU consumer protection; calls therefore on Member States to allocate sufficient resources to their customs services and urges on the interinstitutional negotiating parties to prevent decreasing budgets for the MFF Customs Programmes;
Amendment 209 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Reaffirms that the resources allocated to customs should not be used for other purposes than the surveillance of goods;
Amendment 215 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Welcomes the Product Safety Pledge7 for online marketplaces, but highlights its voluntary character; calls on the Commission to evaluate the role marketplaces could play in improving the detection of unsafe products, and to propose mandatory rules on their responsibilityconcludes that voluntary commitment from online market places is not sufficient; calls on the Commission to propose mandatory rules on their responsibility and liability for unsafe products being offered on their marketplace, taking into account the special role of SMEs as part of the Digital Services Act, the revision of GPSD and any other relevant legislation; __________________ 7Product Safety Pledge is a voluntary commitment made by online marketplaces with respect to the safety of non-food consumer products sold online by third party sellers from June 2018.
Amendment 218 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Is concerned about the amount of unsafe products being sold on online market places; urges the Commission, in cooperation with consumer organisations, to better inform consumers about European safety standards and the possible dangers of purchasing products from third countries on online marketplaces;
Amendment 221 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. EncouraUrges 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; Asks authorities in Member States to put more scrutiny to online market places to ensure accountability;
Amendment 224 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Notes that online market places are often used to sell counterfeit products from third countries; asks the Commission to include the fight against the practice of selling of counterfeit products as a priority in the creation of a legal framework on the responsibility and liability of online market places;
Amendment 237 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Asks the Commission to evaluate the necessity of requiringpropose an obligation for online platforms to put in place effective and appropriate safeguards to tackle the appearance of advertisements for unsafe products;
Amendment 250 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
Amendment 286 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. Urges the Commission and the Member States to enhance cross-border exchange of best practices on recalls, to increase product registration rates so that consumers affected can be more easily identified and actively informed, even for cross-border purchases, and to enable economic operators to use data - such as loyalty schemes - to reach consumers without infringing GDPR rules;
Amendment 289 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33
33. Calls on 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;