Activities of Michael CRAMER related to 2010/2137(INI)
Plenary speeches (2)
Report on competition policy 2009 (debate)
Report on competition policy 2009 (A7-0374/2010, Derk Jan Eppink) (vote)
Amendments (4)
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Invites the Commission to give an overview on taxation, levies, infrastructure financing and charging and VAT systems for different transport modes and effects on intermodal competition, and to includefor the individual Member States and their effects on competition within and between transport modes, and to set out in this overview the effect of the obligatory minimum rail infrastructure and voluntary maximum chargingand unlimited amount charged for rail use in comparison to the non-obligatory and limited amount charged for the use of road infrastructure;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the Commission to ascertain whether the abolition of trade tax for a rail undertaking with a registered office in one Member State is compatible with EU competition rules when it is accompanied by the simultaneous introduction of a flat-rate levy on rolling stock (‘imposition forfaitaire sur les entreprises de réseaux’, IFER); because in this way foreign undertakings have to pay not only the levy on the rolling stock but also – unlike domestic undertakings – the continuing trade tax, which contradicts fair competition.
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission to analyse the effects on the intermodalcompetition between the different transport marketodes of the substantial assistance given in recent years to the automotive industry (such as the scrapping premium granted in some Member States for motor cars and the financial support for electrical mobility, exclusively for motor cars, while ignoring electric cycles, trams and trains);
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Underlines the need to limit as appropriate the market share of maritime consortia of container lines and to share operational advantages - both for maritime and hinterland services -, corresponding to the general EU rules on fair competition and the revised Block Exemption Regulation on maritime consortia that entered into force in April 2010.