Activities of Stéphanie YON-COURTIN related to 2023/2077(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Competition policy – annual report 2023 (A9-0427/2023 - Stéphanie Yon-Courtin) (vote)
Reports (1)
REPORT on competition policy – annual report 2023
Amendments (17)
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Takes note of the Temporary Crisis and Transition Framework (TCTF), as well as of the update of the State aid rulebook that allows investments for the green and digital transitions; welcomes the 2023 review of the TCTF to introducetion of the ‘matching clause’ and avoid a race towards subsidies;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Welcomes competition authorities’ initiatives across several Member States 1a to introduce new market investigation powers and calls on the European Commission to introduce a similar market investigation tool to avoid enforcement gaps where the practices occur across national borders within the EU; _________________ 1a Greece, Germany
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Underlines the importance of the Important Projects of Common European Interest (IPCEIs) for financing large transnational projects and achieving the EU’s strategic priorities, but deplores the process and time required as being too burdensome for SMEs; calls on the Commission and Member States to ensure that any notification is completed within six months at the latest;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Welcomes the Commission’s announcement that it will launch an anti- subsidy investigation into Chinese electric vehicles; underlines the importance under the Regulation on protection against subsidised imports; underlines the importance in parallel of our trade defence instruments of the effective implementation of Regulation (EU) 2022/2560 on foreign subsidies in order to ensure the mitigation of potentially distortive effects on the single market; draws attention to the lack of resources with only five FTE within the Commission;
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission to modernise the public the procurement rules to help foster green and digital industry; calls on the Commission to take into account the sustainability and sovereignty criteria for public procurement rules in order to foster the production of goods ‘made in Europe’;
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Calls on the Commission to make greater use of additional evidential tools such as behavioural insights and financial analytics, as well as greater use of data, computer, and AI scientists as well as behavioural economists in competition law enforcement;
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Welcomes the Commission’s initiative to review its notice on the definition of ‘relevant market’ and looks forward to the outcomes of the public consultation; underlines the need to adopt a more dynamic approach and take into account a longer-term vision encompassing the global dimension and potential future competition; supports the Commission in taking more account of the potential harm to competition when assessing mergers where expansion into adjacent markets would have the effect of further strengthening market dominance in the acquiring company’s core market;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Welcomes the European Commission to block Booking Holdings acquisition of Etraveli 2a ; Notes that Booking is already the largest and most influential online platforms in Europe, which affects the daily operations of tens of thousands of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in the hotel sector; stresses that with this acquisition, Booking could further strengthen its dominance in the hotel market that could lead to higher costs for hotel and, possibly for consumers; reminds that in July 2023, Booking declared that it did not yet qualify as a gatekeeper under the DMA thresholds mainly because of the various Covid19 lockdowns; _________________ 2a https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscor ner/detail/en/ip_23_4573
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Commission to speed up antitrust procedures and introduce a time limit for antitrust cases in order to ensure the effectiveness of EU rules; in particular in view of the upcoming end of the Commission’s mandate in 2024; stresses that further delays to ongoing digital antitrust procedures risk perpetuating the harm caused by anti- competitive practices in those fast moving markets; emphasises that the European Commission opened the Shopping case in 2009 and issued Google with a €2.42 billion fine in 2017 for abusing its dominance; underlines that Spotify filed a complaint against Apple in 2019 and that, in spite of the Commission having issued a statement of objections, no concrete actions have been taken thus far to address Apple’s restrictions, preventing app developers from freely communicating with their own users;
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Welcomes the opening of a formal investigation into possible anti-competitive practices by Microsoft regarding Teams; calls on the Commission to carefully assess the concessions, unilaterally offered by Microsoft, with the undertakings involved, in order to ensure that they address the concerns of market players with regard to new and existing consumusers , as well as interoperability and pricing issues;
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Insists on effective remedies which require greater coordination between enforcers and further dialogue with third parties; recalls that undertakings designated as gatekeepers have been subject to previous antitrust rulings, which have not led to effective behavioural changes, especially regarding self- preferencing in digital markets; regrets the reluctance of the Commission to address market dominance through structural separation;
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Welcomes the designation of six gatekeepers for 22 core platform services under the Digital Markets Act 3a, as well as the four market investigations under the Digital Markets Act; calls on the Commission to assess rigorously whether gatekeepers comply with the DMA obligations before 6 March 2024 and to seek feedback from third parties as to whether compliance solutions offered by gatekeepers lead to fairer and more contestable digital markets; calls on the Commission to ensure that measures by the gatekeepers on security and integrity of their platforms which could impact compliance with the DMA be vetted by independent third parties, and not be solely based on the gatekeepers' own assessment; _________________ 3a https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscor ner/detail/en/IP_23_4328
Amendment 144 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Welcomes the market investigation into Apple’s iMessage in order to fully assess its role as a gateway and its entrenched position in the market as per Apple designation decision under DMA 4a; highlights the inclusion by default of iMessage on all iOS devices for more than 144235a million users; stresses the importance of smartphones as an essential personal and professional tool; highlights that today’s market is dominated by twounderlines the central role of iMessage to the closed ecosystem strategy which locks-in users and prevent free choice; stresses the importance of smartphones as an essential personal and professional tool; highlights the importance to ensure the possibility for users and businesses to freely move from one ecosystem to the other and to seamlessly communicate with each other regardless of the operating systems, with their own non-interoperable messaging services, which limits the possibility for users and businesses to freely move from one ecosystem to the other; therefore calls on the European Commission to proceed expeditiously in its investigation and its effective implementation to bring the benefits of messaging interoperability to all in a timely manner; _________________ 4a https://digital-markets-act- cases.ec.europa.eu/cases/DMA.100013 5a https://www.apple.com/ie/legal/more- resources/dsa/ie/
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Amendment 153 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Regrets the absence of cloud services providers from the gatekeepers list, despite the damaging anti-competitive practices underlined by national competition authorities; highlights that the European cloud market is dominated by a few very large players; calls on the Commission to urgently open a formal investigation into the allegedly anticompetitive behaviours by legacy software providers that are causing irreparable damages to the European cloud vendors and users as well as taxpayers 7a and to ensure that all eligible services are designated in order to restore fair and equal competition in the European cloud market; _________________ 7a https://cispe.cloud/the-billion-euro- unfair-software-licence-tax-on-eu- customers/
Amendment 154 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Welcomes the adoption of the Data Act that allow customers to switch between various cloud data-processing service providers; calls on the Commission to ensure its implementation; highlights that the Data Act will contribute to restore fair and equal competition in the European cloud market but that additional rules and remedies are also needed to this end; stresses the role of the Digital Markets Act in this context, in particular to tackle issues that do not fall under the Data Act’s scope and prevent fair competition in the European cloud market;
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Highlights the EU’s future connectivity needs in terms of infrastructure and investments; calls foron the establishment of a policy framework whereby large traffic generators contribute fairly to the adequate funding of telecom networks without prejudice to net neutralityCommission to revise mergers guidelines to adopt a more comprehensive assessment of efficiencies in merger control and cooperation; notes that the assessment of horizontal cooperation should also recognize the importance of collaboration in markets dominated by gatekeepers;