10 Amendments of David CASA related to 2013/2075(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas strong competition policy seeks to ensure the smooth running of the intprotect consumers from unfair, sub-optimal, non-competitive pricing; whereas a competitive equilibrium is genernal market and to optimise pricingly welfare-maximizing; whereas the purpose of competition policy is not to micromanage but to enforce clear and fair rules within which market forces can effectively function;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas ensuring competitive markets for goods and services increases demand for labour and thus employment and conversely a competitive labour market increases the availability of goods and services;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas the European Union is particularly concerned with youth unemployment in the Single Market and youth bear the brunt of unemployment caused by under-performing markets;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas Protocol No 26 toArticle 14 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union guarantees wide discretion to public authorities in providing, commissioning and organising SGIEsestablishes that ordinary legislative procedure should be used to secure the conditions, particularly economic and financial, for the operation of services of general economic interest (SGEIs);
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls the implementation, in 2012, of the State Aid Package; notes with satisfaction certain measures creating exemption from notification obligations for worthy public investments; calls on the Commission to take stock of the implementation of the Package;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that the European Union is faced with major challenges in the fields of reindustrialisation, energy transition and digital equipment, which call for considerable investments; considers that it is the responsibility of public authorities to promote these investments; takes the view that competition policy must not act as a brake on these ‘'investments of the future’'; further notes that European labour markets suffer from a mismatch of skills between young job-seekers and employers and that public educational investments designed to counter youth unemployment complement, rather than contradict, the goals of competition policy;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Questions the notion of ‘'inappropriate aid’' notion introduced by the Commission; notes that the Court of Justice has found that a condition of efficiency is not appropriate to compensation for public services;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Takes the view that the social and solidarity economy mustshould benefit from special rules on state aid in view of the specific nature of its operation and objectives, as supporting non-profits and SGEIs does not cause market distortions;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Considers that the type of dialogue engaged in by the Commissioner for Competition cannot replace genuineshould be combined with democratic control by Parliament;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Believes the Commission should look out for intra-EU dumping practices, whereby a firm, internationally or domestically, sells units below production price to bankrupt one or more competitor(s); calls on the Commission to limit accusations of dumping, within the EU and outside the EU, to situations where the intent is clearly to eliminate competition and not where a good was accidently over-produced;