9 Amendments of Adam BIELAN related to 2013/2122(INI)
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on national as well as international business organisations, and in particular SME organisations, to work closely together with national focal points; in this regard, also welcomes public- private cooperation;
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Stresses the need to introduce effective, proportionate and dissuasive penalties, recalling that criminal sanctions can have a preventive effect;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Regretscommends that the Commission’s failure to take up Parliament’s recommendation for a partial extension of the scope of the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive by having Annex I (the blacklist) cover business-to-business (B2B) contracts; considers that amending this directive instead of Directive 2006/114/EC will result in a more coherent approach since it will extend the concept of unfair investigate possibilities for submitting amendments to Directive No 2006/114/EC concerning misleading and comparative advertising, and that it consider adding an annex to this directive covering contracts between businesses and setting out a list of commercial practices, together with the blacklist, to B2B relations; stresses that this will avoid the need for broadening the concept of misleading advertising, which is necessary in order to capture all forms of misleading practihat are to be considered unfair in all circumstances;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Commission to examine, as a matter of priority, whether businesses which have been found guilty of misleading marketing practices can be excluded from EU procurement procedures and/or from receiving EU funding for a period of at least five yearsonsiders that any convictions for using misleading marketing practices should be taken into account during EU procurement procedures and/or when distributing EU funding;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Draws attention, in particular, to the role played by fraudulent debt collection agencies which do not hesitate to put pressure on businesses to pay invoices which they know or could have known to be fraudulent; calls on the Commission and the Member States to propose means of better controlling such agencies, both before and after their formal establishment;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Notes with concern that dispute resolution processes have often proven inefficient, lengthy and costly, and that they offer no guarantee of adequate and timely compensation for the damage caused; calls on the Commission to put forward a proposal that makes it possible for the victims of misleading marketing practices to act collectively in a case against a rogue company; stresses that the victims should have the option of being represented by designated organisations, such as national entrepreneurs' organisations; calls for effective remedies for victims, including the annulment of the contracts concerned; believes that in certain cases an EU action may be merited, recalls however that this shall be based on a clearly demonstrated need for measures at the EU level; further recalls that these measures should facilitate cooperation between Member States through a sharing of common principles and safeguards to guarantee the access of claimants to national systems;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Stresses that misleading marketing practices constitute an international problem which in no way stops at the borders of the Member Statesextends beyond individual Member States as well as the EU; calls on the Commission and the Member States, therefore, to pursue international cooperation on the matter, with both third countries and the competent international organisations;