Activities of Simon BUSUTTIL related to 2008/2126(INI)
Plenary speeches (2)
The Misleading Directory Companies report (short presentation)
Misleading business directories (debate)
Reports (1)
REPORT Report on the Misleading Directory Companies Report (Petitions 0045/2006, 1476/2006, 0079/2003, 0819/2003, 1010/2005, 0052/2007, 0306/2007, 0444/2007, 0562/2007 and others) PDF (208 KB) DOC (132 KB)
Amendments (5)
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas Directive 2005/29/EC on unfair business-to-consumer commercial practices prohibits the practice of "including in marketing material an invoice or similar document seeking payment which gives the consumer the impression that he has already ordered the marketed product when he has not"; whereas, however, that Directive does not apply to business-to- business misleading practices and therefore, in its current form, cannot be relied upon to help the petitioners,
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas Directive 2005/29/EC does not preclude Member States from extending its application also to businesses through national law; whereas, however, this leads to differing levels of protection for businesses which are victims of misleading business directories in different Member States,
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas Regulation (EC) 2006/2004 on co-operation between national authorities responsible for the enforcement of consumer protection laws defines “intra- Community infringement” as “any act or omission contrary to the laws that protect consumers’ interests … that harms, or is likely to harm, the collective interests of consumers residing in a Member State or Member States other than the Member State where the act or omission originated or took place, or where the responsible seller or supplier is established, or where evidence or assets pertaining to the act or omission are to be found”; whereas, however, that Directive does not apply to business-to-business misleading practices and therefore, in its current form, cannot be relied upon either to help the petitioners,
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Welcomes the example set by Austria which has introduced a specific prohibition in its national legislation on misleading business directories, and calls on the Commission to consider, in the light of the cross- border nature of this problem, a new legislative initiativeto propose legislation to extend the scope of Directive 2005/29/EC, based on the Austrian model, whichin a way that specifically prohibits advertising in business directories unless prospective clients are unequivocally and by clear graphical means informed that such advertisement is solely an offer for a contract against payment;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Regrets that Regulation (EC) 2006/2004 on co-operation between national authorities responsible for the enforcement of consumer protection laws hais not been sufficiently used, and calls on the Commission to step up its monitoring of the implementation of this Regulation and to ask national authorities to make more frequent use of this legal instrument which could provide a remedy in cases of intra-Community infringementsapplicable to business-to-business transactions and therefore cannot be relied upon as a means of combating misleading business directories; calls on the Commission to propose legislation to extend its application accordingly;