20 Amendments of Pascal ARIMONT related to 2017/2073(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas services account for 71% of the GDP and 68% of total employment, the full potential of the Single Market in services still remains unfulfilled;
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas smart regulation can have positive effects on the European market and deregulation should therefore not be the overall aim;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas in many cases, regulation of professional services can be justified, for example when it aims at protecting a number of general interest objectives, it nevertheless needs to be adjusted regularly to take into consideration technological, societal or market developments;
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas Directive 2005/36/EC was amended in 2013, with the objective to achieve a proportionate regulatory framework, justified by general interests objectives, introducing in Article 59 a transparency and mutual evaluation exercise for all regulated professions in the Member States, whether they are regulated on the basis of national rules or on the basis of rules harmonised at EU level;
Amendment 13 #
Da. whereas Member States were required to submit national action plans (NAPs) to the Commission by 18 January 2016 with information on decisions on maintaining or amending professional regulations; whereas there are still 6 Member States that have not submitted their NAPs;
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes the Commission initiative providing guidance for Member States in the context of the mutual evaluation exercise, including the organisation of in-depth discussions with national authorities;
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Believes that it will help Member States to exchange on best practices and better understand their regulatory choices taking into consideration the fact that some Member States foresee a higher level of state intervention in regulated professions than others;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes that Member States have faced significant challenges in notifying information about the professions they regulate and the requirements for accessing those professions; calls on Member States and the Commission to significantly improve notification procedures;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. NoteRegrets that not all Member States have submitted a National Action Plan (NAP) as required by Directive 2005/36/EC and that the levels of depth and detail of the NAPs submitted differ;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Notes that not all Member States have submitted a National Action Plan (NAP) as required by Directive 2005/36/EC and that the levels of depth and detail of the NAPs submitted differ; calls on those Member States that have not submitted their NAP yet to proceed without any due delay, as only with complete information from all Member States, the Commission can present a full picture on regulated professions at the EU level;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. AcknowledgeRegrets that some Member States did not consult the relevant stakeholders in an appropriate manner while preparing the NAPs; calls for a broader involvement of all interested parties in the future;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Stresses that effective and proportionate regulation of professions contributes to the development of a fair society; recalls that Member States are free to introduce new regulations or to amend existing rules restricting the access to or pursuit of regulated professions where justified by public interest objectives, including overriding reasons of general interest, reflecting thus their vision for society and their socio-economic context, and subject to the limitations of non- discrimination and proportionality as laid down in the Treaty and the interpretative case-law;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Believes that making regulation on professional services more proportionate and adapted to market reality may result in improved market dynamics, lower prices to consumers and improved performance of sector efficiency;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Recognises the role of professional regulation in achieving a high level of protection of public interest objectives, such as the protection of consumers, recipients of services and workers, the safeguarding of the proper administration of justice, the protection of the environment, and the preservation of national historic and artistic heritage and social and cultural policy objectives; within the limits of proportionality acknowledges the margin of appreciation of Member States in determining the ways to achieve this;
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Welcomes the concrete reform recommendations developed on the basis of the new restrictiveness indicator in combination with a qualitative assessment and which support the Commission’s analysis and country-specific recommendations under the European Semester; calls on the Commission to closely monitor the implementation of the reform recommendations and, where appropriate, take enforcement action and propose further measures;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. States that reform recommendations cannot replace enforcement action by the Commission and calls on the Commission to make use of instruments such as infringement procedures for enforcement;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Takes note of the fact thatWelcomes the Commission has issued a's new restrictiveness indicator, seeking towhich improves upon on the existing OECD Product Market Regulation restrictiveness indicator as regards the detailed analysis of the sectors concerned;
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Underlines that this indicator, based on numerical data and including merely an analysis of the barriers to free movement, is to be used as a purelyn indicative tool and does not determine automatically whether a possibly stricter regulation in some Member States is disproportionate;
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Notes that the restrictiveness indicator only takes into account quantitative data and not qualitative data; states that the restrictiveness indicator can therefore only be seen as an indicative tool and does not permit to draw conclusions on the overall regulatory intensity in the Member States;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Recalls that the overall analysis of the impact of the regulations in Member States should be subject not only to a quantitative but also to a qualitative assessment encompassing the general interest objectives and the quality of the service provided;