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869 Amendments of Dariusz ROSATI

Amendment 37 #

2018/2158(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital E
E. whereas the full implementation of the Minsk Agreement remains a precondition for closer cooperation with Russia;
2019/01/16
Committee: AFET
Amendment 57 #

2018/2158(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital F
F. whereas new areas of tension between the EU and Russia have arisen since 20154, including: aggressive actions taken by Russia in reaction to the pro- European “Euromaidan”; Russian intervention in Syria; large-scale military exercises (Zapad 2017); rRussian interference aimed at influencing elections and stoking tensions in European societies as well as meddling in democratic election processes; restrictions on fundamental freedoms and extensive human rights violations in Russia, including the systemic targeting of human rights defenders and civil society in Russia, discrimination against the Tatar minority in occupied Crimea, and the politically motivated persecution of Alexei Navalny and many others; cyber attacks and assassinations on European soil carried out by Russian intelligence agents using chemical weapons; the intimidation, arrest and imprisonment of foreign citizens in Russia in breach of international law, including Oleg Sentsov and many others; the organisation of illegal and illegitimate elections in the Donbas; flawednon-democratic presidential elections lacking any real choice and with restrictions on fundamental freedoms; violations of arms control agreements;
2019/01/16
Committee: AFET
Amendment 120 #

2018/2158(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Condemns Russia’s attacks in the Sea of Azov and actions in the Kerch Strait insofar as they breach international maritime law and international commitments undertaken by Russia itself in the bilateral agreement of 2003 between Ukraine and Russia and UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, which provide for the freedom of navigation; points out that the sanctions against Russia should be rolled over and extended to individuals and companies that profit from illegal situation, until the Russian Federation enables Ukraine to fully restore sovereignty and territorial integrity;
2019/01/16
Committee: AFET
Amendment 148 #

2018/2158(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Believes that non-implementation of the Minsk Agreements demonstrates Russia's lack of good will; asks for consultatiregrets that the negotiations within the Normandy format have not brought tangible results; calls ons, to be advanced within the Normandy formatherefore, for a more effective involvement of the European Union as a whole in ending the Russian military interference on the Ukrainian soil;
2019/01/16
Committee: AFET
Amendment 211 #

2018/2158(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Reiterates that while the EU's stance is firm, coherent and concerted with respect to EU sanctions on Russia, further coordination and coherence is required in its foreign and security policy approach to Russia; calls, in this context, on Member States to end 'golden visa/passport' programmes, which benefit Russian oligarchs often supporting the Kremlin and may undermine the effectiveness of international sanctions;
2019/01/16
Committee: AFET
Amendment 212 #

2018/2158(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Reminds that it is important to continue strengthening sanctions towards Russia by prolonging and deepening them and extending their scope until the Russian Federation fully complies with international norms, stops aggressive behaviour towards Ukraine;
2019/01/16
Committee: AFET
Amendment 213 #

2018/2158(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Underlines that various EU cases of money laundering, including the ING Bank, ABLV Bank, Danske Bank as well as Deutsche Bank were linked to Russian capital and/or citizens; calls for more effective scrutiny of all suspicious transaction reports and more actions by the Commission to better cooperate amongst Member States in the stricter control of capital coming from Russia and emphasises the need to provide full transparency of Russian financial flows in the EU;
2019/01/16
Committee: AFET
Amendment 263 #

2018/2158(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Underlines that Russia and the EU will remain key economic partners in the foreseeable future, but Nord Stream 2 reinforces EU dependency on Russian gas supplies, threatens the EU internal market and is not in line withe EU integrity by not following one of the main principles of the EU energy policy, and therefore needs to be stopped; nergy Union - diversifying the countries from where gas is imported to the EU and therefore Nord Stream 2 project needs to be abandoned; underlines that no new projects should be implemented without prior legal assessment of the legal conformity to EU law and to the agreed political priorities;
2019/01/16
Committee: AFET
Amendment 286 #

2018/2158(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Notes that civil society organizations are often too weak to have a substantial impact on the fight against corruption in Russia, while NGOs are systematically discouraged from actively engaging in any anti-corruption efforts or in promoting public integrity; underlines that it is necessary to involve civil society in independent monitoring of the effectiveness of anti-corruption policies; calls on Russia to correctly implement international anti-corruption standards formulated in i.e. UN Convention against Corruption and OECD Anti-Bribery Convention;
2019/01/16
Committee: AFET
Amendment 292 #

2018/2158(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)
15b. Stresses that Russia should stop anti-EU disinformation and propaganda in the EU and third countries; calls on the EU and Member States to allocate enough resources to effectively fight propaganda and fake news spread by Russia;
2019/01/16
Committee: AFET
Amendment 293 #

2018/2158(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 c (new)
15c. Underlines that Russia has been meddling in the democratic processes in various EU Member States and other countries, supporting anti-EU, populist parties and solutions (e.g. Brexit); calls, in this respect, the EU to find effective solutions to counter such actions by Russia, especially in the context of this year’s European elections;
2019/01/16
Committee: AFET
Amendment 306 #

2018/2158(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
17. Calls for the EU institutions and Member States to make greater efforts to build resilience, particularly in the cyber and media fieldset the rules and develop solutions to protect the cyber and media fields from Russian interference; emphasises the need to create a mechanism for exchange of information in these fields between the EU (and amongst its Member States) and the Eastern Partnership countries; calls for EU-wide support for the European cyber- security industry and a stronger engagement in research; encourages, in this context, the promotion of European values in Russian by East Stratcom;
2019/01/16
Committee: AFET
Amendment 16 #

2018/2121(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 14
— having regard to the Commission proposals pending for adoption, in particular on the CC(C)TB14 , the digital taxation package15 and public country-by- country reporting (CBCR)16 , as well as the Parliament's position on these documents, _________________ 14 Proposal of 25 October 2016 for a Council Directive on a Common Corporate Tax Base (CCTB), COM(2016)0685 (2016/0337(CNS)) and on a Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base (CCCTB), COM(2016)0683 (2016/0336(CNS)). 15 The package consists of the ‘Time to establish a modern, fair and efficient taxation standard for the digital economy’ communication (COM(2018)0146), the proposal for a Council directive laying down rules relating to the corporate taxation of a significant digital presence (COM(2018)0147, 2018/0072(CNS)), the proposal for a Council directive on the common system of a digital services tax on revenues resulting from the provision of certain digital services (COM(2018)0148, 2018/0073 (CNS)) and the recommendation relating to the corporate taxation of a significant digital presence (C(2018) 1650). 16 Proposal of 12 April 2016 for a directive amending Directive 2013/34/EU as regards disclosure of income tax information by certain undertakings and branches, COM(2016)0198 (2016/0107(COD)).
2018/12/20
Committee: TAX3
Amendment 169 #

2018/2121(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
16. Takes note of the statement made by the French Finance Minister at the TAX3 meeting of 23 October 2018 regarding the need to discuss the concept of minimum taxation; welcomnotes the readiness by France to include the debate on minimum taxation as one of the priorities of its G7 Presidency in 2019; considers that progress is needed on CCCTB to improve the functioning of the Single Market;
2018/12/20
Committee: TAX3
Amendment 191 #

2018/2121(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
18. Acknowledges that the G20/OECD- led BEPS project was meant to tackle in a coordinated manner the causes and circumstances creating BEPS practices, by improving the coherence of tax rules across borders, reinforcing substance requirements and enhancing transparency and certainty; states, however, that the willingness and commitment to cooperate on the OECD BEPS Action Plan varies amongst countries and between particular actions;
2018/12/20
Committee: TAX3
Amendment 228 #

2018/2121(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
24. Reiterates its call for a clear definition of permanent establishment and significant economic presence so that companies cannot artificially avoid having a taxable presence in a Member State in which they have economic activity;
2018/12/20
Committee: TAX3
Amendment 309 #

2018/2121(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34 a (new)
34 a. Underlines that a lack of a common Union approach on addressing the taxation of the digital economy will lead Member States to adopt unilateral solutions, which will lead to regulatory uncertainty, fracturing of the single market and might become a burden for companies operating cross-border as well as tax authorities;
2018/12/20
Committee: TAX3
Amendment 317 #

2018/2121(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
35. Welcomes the digital tax package adopted by the Commission on 21 March 2018; calls on the Council to swiftly adopt these proposals, taking into account Parliament’s opinion on them, as adopted on the 13th of December2018;
2018/12/20
Committee: TAX3
Amendment 327 #

2018/2121(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36
36. Understands that the so-called interim solution is not optimal; believes that it will help speed up the search for a better solution at global level, while levelling the playing field in local markets to some extent; ; calls on the EU Member States to discuss, adopt and implement the long-term solution concerning the taxation of the digital economy (on the significant digital presence) as soon as possible in order for the EU to be a trendsetter on the global level and to depart from the short-term solution; stresses that the long-term solution proposed by the Commission should serve as a basis for further work on the international level and the EU shall continue to work towards a consensus- based solution in the BEPS Inclusive Framework;
2018/12/20
Committee: TAX3
Amendment 396 #

2018/2121(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 45
45. Stresses that the proposal for public CBCR was submitted to the co-legislators just after the Panama papers scandal on 12 April 2016, and that Parliament adopted its position on it on 4 July 2017; recalls that the latter called for an enlargement of the scope of reporting and protection of commercially sensitive information for EU companies both within and outside the EU Single Market, so that this directive does not undermine the competitiveness of EU enterprises; deplores the lack of progress and cooperation from the Council since 2016; urges for progress to be made in the Council so that it enters into negotiations with Parliament;
2018/12/20
Committee: TAX3
Amendment 447 #

2018/2121(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 52
52. Notes that there is no single definition of shell or letterbox companies, i.e. companies registered in a jurisdiction for tax avoidance or tax evasion purposes only and without any significant economic presence;
2018/12/20
Committee: TAX3
Amendment 564 #

2018/2121(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 77
77. Considers that one of the main issues allowing fraudulent behaviour in relation to VAT to occur is the ‘cash profit’ that a fraudster can make; calls, therefore, on the Commission to analyse the proposal made by experts54 to place cross-border transactional data on a blockchain, and to use secured digital currencies that can only be used for VAT payments (single purpose) instead of using fiat currency; _________________ 54 Ainsworth, R. T., Alwohabi, M., Cheetham, M. and Tirand, C.:’A VATCoin Solution to MTIC Fraud: Past Efforts, Present Technology, and the EU’s 2017 Proposal’, Boston University School of Law, Law and Economics Series Paper, No 18-08, 26 March 2018. See also: Ainsworth, R. T., Alwohabi, M. and Cheetham, M.: ‘VATCoin: Can a Crypto Tax Currency Prevent VAT Fraud?’, Tax Notes International, Vol 84, 14 November 2016.
2018/12/20
Committee: TAX3
Amendment 574 #

2018/2121(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 80
80. Calls on the Commission to investigate seriously the possibilityies of new fraud risks in the definitive VAT system, notably the potentially missing supplier in cross-border transactions supplanting the missing customer type of carousel fraud;
2018/12/20
Committee: TAX3
Amendment 603 #

2018/2121(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 84
84. Deplores the fact that some Member States have created opaque tax regimes allowing non-nationals to obtain income tax benefits, hereby undermining other Member States’ tax base and fostering harmful policies which discriminate against their own citizens;
2018/12/20
Committee: TAX3
Amendment 627 #

2018/2121(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 87
87. Stresses that CBI and RBI schemes carry significant risks, including a devaluation of EU citizenship and the potential for corruption, money laundering and tax evasion; emphasizes that these schemes might serve as a possibility to escape EU sanctions, especially in the case of Russian citizens who were put on the sanctions list after the illegal annexation of Crimea and the aggression of Russia on Ukraine; reiterates its concern that citizenship or residence could be granted through these schemes without proper or indeed any customer due diligence (CDD) having been carried out; notes that several formal investigations into corruption and money laundering have been launched at national and EU level directly related to CBI and RBI schemes; underlines that, at the same time, the economic sustainability and viability of the investments provided through these schemes remain uncertain;
2018/12/20
Committee: TAX3
Amendment 780 #

2018/2121(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 116 a (new)
116 a. Underlines that various EU cases of money laundering, including the ING Bank, ABLV Bank, Danske Bank as well as Deutsche Bank were linked to Russian capital and/or citizens; calls for more effective scrutiny of all suspicious transaction reports; stresses in this context the need for more actions by the Commission and better cooperation amongst Member States in the control of capital coming from Russia;
2018/12/20
Committee: TAX3
Amendment 950 #

2018/2121(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 148
148. RecognisesNotes with concern the effort made by some third countries to act decisively against BEPS; stresses, however, that such reforms should remain in line with existing WTO rules; considers the information gathered during the committee visit to Washington DC about the US tax reforms and their possible impact on international cooperation to be of particular importance; finds that some of the provisions of the US Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 would be incompatible with existing WTO rules according to some experts; welcomes the fact that the Commission is currently in the process of assessing the potential regulatory and commercial implications of, in particular, the BEAT, GILTI and FDII78 provisions of the new US tax reform; asks the Commission to inform Parliament of the results of the assessment; _________________ 78 Respectively ‘Base Erosion and Anti- Abuse Tax’ (BEAT), ‘Global Intangible Low Tax Income’ (GILTI) and ‘Foreign- Derived Intangible Income’ (FDII).
2018/12/20
Committee: TAX3
Amendment 1019 #

2018/2121(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 158
158. Reiterates its call for the EU to have a leading role in the global fight against tax evasion, aggressive tax planning and money laundering, in particular through Commission initiatives in all related international forums; regrets, however, that while the EU adopts OECD BEPS proposals, some proposals going beyond the OECD recommendations but could serve as a basis for further fruitful work on the international level are stalled in the Council;
2018/12/20
Committee: TAX3
Amendment 1119 #

2018/2121(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 174
174. Calls on the Commission to collect and release information on the number of tax disputes submitted and resolved, sorted by type of dispute per year and by countries involved, so as to monitor the mechanism and ensure that it is efficient and effective;
2018/12/20
Committee: TAX3
Amendment 1179 #

2018/2121(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 182 a (new)
182 a. Insists on making illegal all internal corporate rules on confidentiality that would restrict employees in reporting suspect cases of unlawful transactions to responsible public authorities;
2018/12/20
Committee: TAX3
Amendment 1220 #

2018/2121(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 192 a (new)
192 a. Regrets that despite repeated invitations the representatives of Council Presidency refused to appear before the TAX3 Committee to report on progress in implementing the recommendations of TAXE, TAX3 and PANA committees; emphasises that working contacts between the Council Presidency and special and inquiry committees of the European Parliament should be a standard practice;
2018/12/20
Committee: TAX3
Amendment 1263 #

2018/2121(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 205
205. WelcomNotes the Commission’s intention to propose qualified majority voting for specific and pressing tax policy issues where vital legislative files and initiatives aimed at combating tax fraud, tax evasion, aggressive tax planning or financial crimes have been blocked in the Council to the detriment; underlines that according to the Treaty tax issues remain within exclusive competences of Member States;
2018/12/20
Committee: TAX3
Amendment 24 #

2018/2033(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B
B. whereas in 2017 the youth unemployment rate in the euro area was 18.8 %, and washas declined from 22,3% in 2015 to 18.8 % in 2017; whereas it remained particularly high in Greece (43.6 %), Spain (38.7 %) and Italy (34.8 %);
2018/07/16
Committee: ECON
Amendment 41 #

2018/2033(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)
Cb. whereas the current economic environment provides a favourable window of opportunity to step up reform implementation; whereas the overall implementation of recommendations by EU countries has advanced slowly in the last few years, in particular when it comes to recommendations addressed to countries with excessive macroeconomic imbalances;
2018/07/16
Committee: ECON
Amendment 58 #

2018/2033(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Reiterates the urgency of carrying on the fight against the inequalities that hamper economic growthimplementing these country-specific recommendations in order to improve the functioning of the European Semester process and thereby ensure sound fiscal policies, structural reforms to create more jobs and sustainable growth, and boost investment;
2018/07/16
Committee: ECON
Amendment 80 #

2018/2033(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Supports flexibility in the implementation of the Stability and Growth Pact as proposed by the Commission in 2015; considers that much more flexibility is required to boost investment and growth in the EU; calls, therefore, for a reform of the Stability and Growth Pact and the introduction of an aggregate euro area fiscal stanceCalls to improve the enforcement of the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) with a focus on debt reduction, in order to safeguard responsible public finances; supports the modulation of budgetary adjustment over the economic cycle as proposed by the Commission in 2015 in its Communication on flexibility within the existing rules of the SGP; considers that larger fiscal efforts are required for Member States in economic good times and/or with high levels of public debt, while Member States in economic bad times and with low levels of public debt might rely on fiscal expansion; flexibility as built into the existing SGP rules should strike a good balance between the objective of ensuring prudent fiscal policy and stabilising the economy;
2018/07/16
Committee: ECON
Amendment 88 #

2018/2033(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Supports flexibility in the implementation of the Stability and Growth Pact as proposed by the Commission in 2015; considers that much more flexibility is required to boost investment and growth in the EU; calls, therefore, for a reform of the Stability and Growth Pact and the introduction of an aggregate euro area fiscal stance;
2018/07/16
Committee: ECON
Amendment 102 #

2018/2033(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Takes the view that the development ofnote of the new budgetary tools aimed at stabilisation and convergence in the euro area would be extremely, as proposed by the Commission, which would be important for the economic governance of the Eeurozone area in order to avoid, as far as possible, the re- emergence of events already experienced during the years of the financial crisicomplement the euro area’s single monetary policy; highlights that access to central budgetary tools should be conditional on compliance with fiscal rules;
2018/07/16
Committee: ECON
Amendment 106 #

2018/2033(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Takes the view that the development of new budgetary tools aimed at stabilisation and convergence in the euro area would be extremelymay be important for the economic governance of the Eurozone in order to avoid, as far as possible,; emphasizes that budgetary discipline is necessary to avoid the re- emergence of events already experienced during the years of the financial crisis;
2018/07/16
Committee: ECON
Amendment 123 #

2018/2033(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Recalls that current implementation levels of the country- specific recommendations are too low; believes that the focus of the European Semester should therefore be on national ownership and implementation, rather than adding policy objectives to the European Semester cycle; believes that more national ownership through national and regional parliaments debating country reports and country- specific recommendations would lead to better implementation of country-specific recommendations;
2018/07/16
Committee: ECON
Amendment 151 #

2018/2033(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Highlights the urgent need for a fully-fledged Capital Markets Union, as financial markets could provide for appropriate private risk-sharing and absorption capacities to counter future external shocks; thereby urges both the Commission and the Member States to move forward with the completion of the Capital Markets Union;
2018/07/16
Committee: ECON
Amendment 184 #

2018/2033(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. Recalls the need to implement the recommendations of the TAXE, TAXE2, Panama Papers inquiry committee of inquiry; welcomes the legislative proposals already put forward by the Commission implementing these recommendations;
2018/07/16
Committee: ECON
Amendment 197 #

2018/2033(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Encourages stronger coordination and harmonisation of taxation with the objective of reducing the differences among Member States over a ten-year period, thus making any possible company relocation unattractive;
2018/07/16
Committee: ECON
Amendment 208 #

2018/2033(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
14. Welcomes the Council recommendation and the Commission’s efforts to encourage Members States with large current account surpluses to promote faster wage growth, strengthenincrease public investment and thus foster economic expansion; highlights the fact that real wage growth has, in recent times, lagged behind productivity growth, while improvements have occurred in the labour market in some sectors, while unemployment rates have declined; stresses, against this background, that there could be room for wage increases in certain sectors and areas to ensure goodbetter standards of living, taking into account the need to tackle inequalities and boost growth;
2018/07/16
Committee: ECON
Amendment 232 #

2018/2033(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Notes with concern the recent rise in oil prices which generally weakens growth and raises inflation; stresses that, rather than relying on seasonal factors for its recovery, the only way to make the European economy an area of prosperity is to encourage public and private investment and promote domestic demand;
2018/07/16
Committee: ECON
Amendment 233 #

2018/2033(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Is seriously concerned about the weakness of private investment; calls on Member States and the European Commission to take measures to improve business climate, reduce red tape and encourage high tech and innovative investment;
2018/07/16
Committee: ECON
Amendment 236 #

2018/2033(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
16. Recalls that a recent study underlined the determinant role played by businesses seeking to resist wage pressure in existing current account surpluses in some Member States;deleted
2018/07/16
Committee: ECON
Amendment 244 #

2018/2033(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Insists on the need to accelerate growth through promoting competitiveness and innovation;
2018/07/16
Committee: ECON
Amendment 247 #

2018/2033(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
18. Recalls the need for stronger surveillance of the employment and sociallabour market situation in Europe and appropriate and constant follow-up at every step of the European Semester in order to boost quality job creation and thus achieve smart, sustainable and inclusive growth; underlines that digitalisation, globalisation and technological change are radically transforming our labour markets, with for example more transitions between employment forms and statuses; thereby stresses the importance of dynamic labour markets with accessible social security systems, able to respond to these new labour market realities;
2018/07/16
Committee: ECON
Amendment 258 #

2018/2033(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
19. Shares the Commission’s concerns regarding developments in the housing market in some Member States; stresses that rising interest rates and housing prices are having an impact on household private debt; underlines that this debt plays a role in the , if excessive, may destability ofze the euro area; calls on the Commission to take initiatives in this area in line with recommendation 19 of the social pillar;
2018/07/16
Committee: ECON
Amendment 281 #

2018/2033(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
21. RegreSupports the fact that the CommissionCommission's decision to makes part of the allocation of European funds conditional on the European Semester and economic governance;
2018/07/16
Committee: ECON
Amendment 293 #

2018/2033(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
23. Warns that the longer the current savings-oriented policy – primarily focused onBelieves that a proper balance between the need to support investment while making spending cuts – continues without an effective investment plantaining necessary fiscal prudence is necessary to generate revenue through growth, social cohesion and solidarity, the clearer it will become that Europe’s economic integration and prosperity is at risk from growing social inequalities;
2018/07/16
Committee: ECON
Amendment 68 #

2018/2007(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses the potential of a faster green transitsustainable transition, which takes into account specificity of the EU regions, as an opportunity for orienting capital markets towards long- term, innovative and efficient investments; notes that environmental, social and governance (ESG) benefits and risks are not reflected in prices and that this provides a market advantage to unsustainable and short-termist geared finance; stresses that a political and regulatory framework to govern sustainable finance is overdue;
2018/03/02
Committee: ECON
Amendment 90 #

2018/2007(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses that the financial sector as a whole and its core function of allocating capital to benefit society should be governed by the values of equity and sustainability; emphasises in that respect the instrumental role of economic, fiscal and monetary policy in fostering sustainable finance by facilitating capital allocation to decarbonisedsustainable and resource- efficient economic activities which are able to reduce the current need for future resources and thereby capable of meeting EU sustainability goals; insists that a substantial price for greenhouse gas emissions is a key component of a functioning and efficient environmental and social market economy;
2018/03/02
Committee: ECON
Amendment 233 #

2018/2007(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
14. Notes the urgent need for a uniform standard for green bonds; insistunderlines that such green bonds should include periodic reporting on the environmental impacts of the underlying assets; undalso furtherl inves that green bonds should also respect negative criteria and must not include any form of fossil fuel asset, nuclear power or investment in aviation infrastructuretigate negative criteria;
2018/03/02
Committee: ECON
Amendment 111 #

2018/0213(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 19
(19) With regard to the reform delivery tool, it is necessary to identify the types of reforms that should be eligible for financial support. To ensure their contribution to the objectives of the Programme, the eligible reforms should be those addressing the challenges identified in the context of the European Semester of economic policy coordination, including those proposed to address the country-specific recommendations and the national reform programmes.
2019/01/16
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 119 #

2018/0213(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 20
(20) In order to ensure a meaningful incentive for Member States to complete structural reforms, it is appropriate to establish a maximum financial contribution available for them under the instrument for each stage of allocation and under each call. That maximum contribution should be calculated on the basis of the population of Member States and GNI per capita in PPS. To ensure that the financial incentives are spread throughout the whole period of application of the Programme, the allocation of funds to the Member States should be made in stages. In the first stage lasting twenty months, half (EUR 11 000 000 000) of the overall financial envelope of the reform delivery tool should be made available to Member States, during which they could receive up to their maximum allocation by submitting proposals for reform commitments.
2019/01/16
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 130 #

2018/0213(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 23
(23) In order to ensure the ownership of and a focus on relevant reforms, the Member States should identify the reform commitments in response to challenges identified in the context of the European Semester (including those challenges identified in country specific recommendations and the national reform programmes) and propose a detailed set of measures for their implementation, which should contain appropriate milestones and targets and a timetable for implementation over a maximum period of three years. Close cooperation between the Commission and the Member States should be sought and achieved throughout the process.
2019/01/16
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 147 #

2018/0213(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 26
(26) In order to contribute to the preparation of high quality proposals and assist the Commission in the assessment of the proposals for reform commitments submitted by the Member States and in the assessment of the degree of their achievement, provision should be made for the use of peer counselling and expert advice. In addition, the Council for Economic Policy Committee of the Council dealing with the European Semester, in consultation, where appropriate, with relevant Treaty-based committees, should be able to provide an opinion on the proposals for reform commitments as submitted by Member States. In the interest of simplification, the reporting by Member States on the progress made in the implementation of reform commitments should be made within the framework of the European Semester.
2019/01/16
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 280 #

2018/0213(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1
Annex I lays down a maximum financial contribution available for each Member State out of the overall envelope of the reform delivery tool referred to in point (a) of Article 7(2). Such a maximum financial contribution is calculated for each Member State using the criteria and methodology set out in that Annex, based on the population of each Member State and GNI per capita in PPS. Such a maximum financial contribution shall be available for allocation to each Member State, in part or in full, at each stage and call of the allocation process set out in Article 10.
2019/01/22
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 293 #

2018/0213(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 1
1. A Member State wishing to receive support under the reform delivery tool shall submit a proposal for reform commitments to the Commission. That proposal shall set out a detailed set of measures for the implementation of structural reforms in response to challenges identified in the European Semester process andincluding the national reform priorities as set out in the national reform programmes. Proposal shall contain milestones, targets and a timetable for the implementation of the reforms over a maximum period of three years.
2019/01/22
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 320 #

2018/0213(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 7 – point a – point 1 – indent 1
– in the country-specific recommendations and in other relevant European Semester documents officially adopted by the Commission and the Member State concerned; or
2019/01/22
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 51 #

2018/0212(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4
(4) The unprecedented financial crisis and economic downturn that hit the world and the euro area has exposed economic weaknesses in Member States, lacking resilience due to the postponement of structural reforms and thus their limited fiscal capacity to react, and has shown that in the euro area available instruments such as the single monetary policy, automatic fiscal stabilisers and discretionary fiscal policy measures at national level are insufficient to absorb large asymmetric shocks.
2018/11/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 60 #

2018/0212(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5
(5) In order to facilitate macroeconomic adjustment and cushion large asymmetric shocks in the current institutional set-up, Member States whose currency is the euro and other Member States that participate in the exchange rate mechanism (ERM II) have to rely more heavily on remaining instruments of economic policy, such as automatic fiscal stabilisers and other discretionary fiscal measures, making the adjustment more difficult overall, which highlights the need for adherence to the Stability and Growth Pact in the framework of the EU’s fiscal rules in order to create fiscal space and thus be able to address economic shocks. The sequence of the crisis in euro area also suggests strong reliance on the single monetary policy to provide for macro- economic stabilisation in severe macro- economic circumstances.
2018/11/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 69 #

2018/0212(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7
(7) Additional instruments are therefore necessary to avoid in the futureSound public finances could be complemented in the future by additional instruments to avoid that large asymmetric shocks result into deeper and broader situations of stress and weaken cohesion.
2018/11/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 96 #

2018/0212(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 12
(12) The European Stability Mechanism (ESM) or its legal successor could provide further support in addition to support under EISF.deleted
2018/11/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 117 #

2018/0212(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15
(15) Strict eligibility criteria based on compliance with decisions and recommendations underthe Stability and Growth Pact as part of the Union's fiscal and economic surveillance framework over a period of twofive years before the request for EISF support should be fulfilled by the Member State requesting EISF support in order not to diminish the incentive for that Member State to pursue prudent budgetary policies. Compliance with any other eligibility criteria, such as a convergence code, shall only be additional to the EU’s fiscal rules and not in replacement of them.
2018/11/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 135 #

2018/0212(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 19
(19) In addition to loans, interest rate subsidies should be granted to the Member States concerned to cover the interest costs incurred on such loans, as a specific type of financial assistance under Article 220 of the Financial Regulation. Such an interest rate subsidy would provide additional support in parallel to the loan for Member States undergoing an asymmetric shock and facing tight financing conditions on the financial markets. Payment of interest rate subsidies should be strictly conditional upon the availability of sufficient means in the Stabilisation Support Fund.
2018/11/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 147 #

2018/0212(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 22
(22) To that effect, the Commission should examine whether the Member State concerned has respected those conditions. In case of non-compliance the Member State concerned should repay part or the entire loan given and should not be entitled to receiving an interest rate subsidy.
2018/11/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 174 #

2018/0212(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 28
(28) After that intergovernmental agreement has entered into force, payment of the interest rate subsidy to the Member State concerned should be conditional upon the Member State transferring its yearly contribution to the Stabilisation Support Fund, without exceptions, as the risk of moral hazard and permanent transfers should remain limited. Payment of interest rate subsidies should be strictly conditional upon the availability of sufficient means in the Stabilisation Support Fund, as payments through other funds cannot be guaranteed and would increase the risk of moral hazard. Payment of interest rate subsidies from the Stabilisation Support Fund would be postponed in case the interest rate subsidy to a specific Member State would exceed 320 percent of the available means in the Stabilisation Support Fund at the moment when such payment is due.
2018/11/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 181 #

2018/0212(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 31
(31) In order to determine the rules for the involvement of the ESM or its legal successor in providing financial assistance in parallel to the Commission in support of public investment, the power to adopt acts in accordance with Article 290 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union should be delegated to the Commission in respect of the exchange of relevant information as regards the EISF loan, the impact of the ESM's involvement for calculating the amount of EISF support, and the granting of an interest rate subsidy by the Stabilisation Support Fund to the Member State for costs incurred on ESM financial assistance. The Commission should also be empowered to adopt delegated acts determining the percentage in the formula for calculating the interest rate subsidy, the detailed rules for the administration of the Stabilisation Support Fund and the general principles and criteria for its investment strategy. It is of particular importance that the Commission carry out appropriate consultations during its preparatory work, including at expert level, and that those consultations be conducted in accordance with the principles laid down in the Interinstitutional Agreement on Better Law-Making of 13 April 201614 . In particular, to ensure equal participation in the preparation of delegated acts, the European Parliament and the Council receive all documents at the same time as Member States' experts, and their experts systematically have access to meetings of Commission expert groups dealing with the preparation of delegated acts. _________________ 14 OJ L 231, 12.5.2016, p. 1deleted
2018/11/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 189 #

2018/0212(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 33
(33) EISF should be considered as a first step in the development over time of a fully-fledged insurance mechanism to cater for macro-economic stabilisation. Currently, EISF would be based on loans and granting of interest rate subsidies. In parallel, it is not excluded that the ESM or its legal successor would be involved in the future by providing financial assistance to Member States whose currency is the euro facing adverse economic conditions in support of public investment. Moreover, a voluntary insurance mechanism with a borrowing capacity based on voluntary contributions by Member States could be set up in the future to provide for a powerful instrument for the purpose of macro- economic stabilisation against asymmetric shocks.deleted
2018/11/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 255 #

2018/0212(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) two successive recommendations of the Council in the same imbalance procedure in accordance with Article 8(3) of Regulation (EU) No 1176/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council20 on grounds that the Member State concerned has submitted an insufficient corrective action plan in the twofive years prior to requesting support from the EISF; _________________ 20 Regulation (EU) No 1176/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 November 2011 on the prevention and correction of macroeconomic imbalances OJ L 306, 23.11.2011, p. 25
2018/11/08
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 261 #

2018/0212(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point d
(d) two successive decisions of the Council in the same imbalance procedure in accordance with Article 10(4) of Regulation (EU) No 1176/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council having established non-compliance by the Member State concerned on grounds that it has not taken the recommended corrective action in the twofive years prior to requesting support from the EISF;
2018/11/08
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 274 #

2018/0212(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2
2. When the agreement has entered into force, a Member State shall only be eligible for receiving an interest rate subsidy if it complies with its obligations under the agreement. The Commission shall examine whether the Member State concerned complies with its obligations under the agreement. In case of non- compliance the Member State concerned shall repay the entire loan given and shall not be entitled to receiving an interest rate subsidy.
2018/11/08
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 302 #

2018/0212(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5
1. A Member State benefitting from EISF support shall, in any given year in which it receives an EISF loan do the following: (a) invest in eligible public investment an amount corresponding to at least the amount of the EISF loan, (b) maintain the same level of its public investment compared to the average level of its public investment in the five previous years. The Commission may nevertheless conclude when adopting the decision in accordance with Article 6(2) that such level of public investment is unsustainable, in which case it shall determine the level of public investment to be maintained. 2. The year following the disbursement of the EISF loan, the Commission shall examine whether the Member State concerned has respected the criteria referred to in paragraph 1. In particular, the Commission shall also verify the extent to which the Member State concerned has maintained eligible public investment in programmes supported by the Union under the European Regional Development Fund, the Cohesion fund, the European Social Fund, the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund and the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development. If the Commission, after having heard the Member State concerned, concludes that the conditions referred to in paragraph 1 have not been complied with, it shall adopt a decision: (a) requesting the early repayment of whole or part of the EISF loan, as appropriate; and (b) deciding that upon repayment of EISF loan the Member State concerned shall not be entitled to receive the interest rate subsidy. The Commission shall adopt its decision without undue delay and shall make it public.Article 5 deleted Supported investment
2018/11/08
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 329 #

2018/0212(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – title
6 Procedure for granting or withdrawing EISF support
2018/11/08
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 333 #

2018/0212(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Where aA Member State fulfils the eligibility criteria referred to in Article 3 anmay request the Commission once within 12 months to receive EISF support, if the Member State concerned is experiencing the large asymmetric shock referred to in Article 4, it may request the Commission once a year to receive EISF support and fulfils the eligibility criteria referred to in Article 3. The Member State shall indicate its needs for support.
2018/11/08
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 339 #

2018/0212(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
The Commission shall assess and answer the requests in the order it receives them. It shall act without undue delay. The Commission shall appear in front of the committee responsible and inform the European Parliament and the Council without undue delay about the outcome of its assessment.
2018/11/08
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 341 #

2018/0212(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 a (new)
A Member State benefitting from EISF support shall, in any given year in which it receives an EISF loan do the following: (a) invest in eligible public investment an amount corresponding to at least the amount of the EISF loan, (b) maintain the same level of its public investment compared to the average level of its public investment in the five previous years, (c) address market failures or sub-optimal investment situations, in a proportionate manner, without duplicating or crowding out private financing and have a clear European added value. The Commission may nevertheless conclude when adopting the decision in accordance with Article 6(2) that such level of public investment is unsustainable, in which case it shall determine the level of public investment to be maintained.
2018/11/08
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 347 #

2018/0212(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. The year following the disbursement of the EISF loan, the Commission shall examine whether the Member State concerned has respected the criteria referred to in paragraph 1. No further disbursements shall be made available before the Commission has fully examined whether the Member State concerned has respected the criteria referred to in paragraph 1. In particular, the Commission shall also verify the extent to which the Member State concerned has maintained eligible public investment in programmes supported by the Union under the European Regional Development Fund, the Cohesion fund, the European Social Fund, the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund and the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development. If the Commission, after having heard the Member State concerned, concludes that the conditions referred to in paragraph 1 have not been complied with, it shall adopt a decision: (a) requesting the early repayment of the whole EISF loan, as appropriate; and (b) deciding that upon repayment of EISF loan the Member State concerned shall not be entitled to receive the interest rate subsidy. The Commission shall adopt its decision without undue delay and shall make it public.
2018/11/08
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 375 #

2018/0212(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 4
The Commission may nevertheless increase the amount of an EISF loan up to the amount of IS in case of particular severity of the large asymmetric shock experienced by the Member State concerned.deleted
2018/11/08
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 399 #

2018/0212(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 2
2. The Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 21, to amend this Regulation by determining the percentage referred to in paragraph 1 if this appears necessary in view of the implementation of the agreement or the eventual deferral of payments under Article 18(2).
2018/11/08
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 403 #

2018/0212(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 10
Financial support by the ESM or its legal 1. In case the ESM or its legal successor provides financial assistance to Member States in support of eligible public investment under modalities and conditions consistent with this Regulation, the Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 21 in order to: (a) supplement this Regulation by specifying the exchange of information between the Commission and the ESM or its legal successor as regards the elements referred to in Article 6(2); (b) supplement this Regulation by determining rules of complementarity between the financial assistance from the ESM or its legal successor and amounts of EISF support calculated in accordance with Articles 8 and 9; (c) amend or supplement Articles 9 and 18 to allow for granting an interest rate subsidy by the Stabilisation Support Fund to Member States for interest costs incurred on financial assistance granted by the ESM or its legal successor to Member States in support of eligible public investment.Article 10 deleted successor
2018/11/08
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 455 #

2018/0212(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 22 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 2 – point d
(d) the appropriateness of developing a voluntary insurance mechanism serving the purpose of macroeconomic stabilisation.deleted
2018/11/08
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 155 #

2018/0178(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10
(10) Moreover if market participants do not provide any explanation to investors of how the activities they invest in contribute to environmental objectives, or if they use different concepts in their explanation of what is a ‘sustainable’ economic activity, investors will find it disproportionately burdensome to check and compare these different financial products. It has been found that this discourages investors from investing into greensustainable financial products. Furthermore, the lack of investor confidence has major detrimental effects on the market for sustainable investment. It has further been shown that national rules or market-based initiatives taken to tackle this issue within national borders will lead to fragmenting the internal market. If financial market participants disclose how the financial products they claim are environment-friendly meet environmental objectives, and they use for such disclosures common criteria across the Union of what is an environmentally sustainable economic activity, this will help investors compare environment- friendly investment opportunities across borders. Investors will invest in greensustainable financial products with higher confidence across the Union, improving the functioning of the internal market.
2018/12/17
Committee: ECONENVI
Amendment 162 #

2018/0178(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 12
(12) Establishing criteria for environmentally sustainable economic activities may encourage firms to disclose on their websites, on a voluntary basis, information on the environmentally sustainable economic activities they carry out. This information will not only help relevant actors in the financial markets to easily identify which firms carry out environmentally sustainable economic activities, but it will also facilitate for these firms to raise funding for their greensustainable activities.
2018/12/17
Committee: ECONENVI
Amendment 176 #

2018/0178(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15
(15) To avoid market fragmentation as well as harm to consumer interests due to divergent notions of environmentally sustainable economic activities, national requirements that market actors should comply with when they wish to market financial products or corporate bonds as being environmentally sustainable, should build on the uniform criteria for environmentally sustainable economic activities. Those market actors include financial market participants offering “green”sustainable financial products and non- financial companies issuing “green”sustainable corporate bonds.
2018/12/17
Committee: ECONENVI
Amendment 247 #

2018/0178(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 35
(35) The application of this Regulation should be reviewed regularly in order to assess the progress on the development of technical screening criteria for environmentally sustainable activities, the use of the definition of environmentally sustainable investment, and whether compliance with the obligations requires the establishment of a verification mechanism. The review should include also an assessment of whether the scope of this Regulation should be extended to cover social and economic sustainability objectives.
2018/12/17
Committee: ECONENVI
Amendment 408 #

2018/0178(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. An economic activity shall be considered to contribute substantially to climate change mitigation where that activity substantially contributes to the stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level which prevents dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system by avoiding or reducing greenhouse gas emissions or enhancing greenhouse gas removals through any of the following means, including through process or product innovation:
2018/12/17
Committee: ECONENVI
Amendment 422 #

2018/0178(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) increasing clean, low-emission or climate-neutral mobility;
2018/12/17
Committee: ECONENVI
Amendment 427 #

2018/0178(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point e
(e) increasing carbon capture and storage useutilisation or storage of carbon dioxide emissions;
2018/12/17
Committee: ECONENVI
Amendment 430 #

2018/0178(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point f
(f) phasing out anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases, including from fossil fuels;
2018/12/17
Committee: ECONENVI
Amendment 434 #

2018/0178(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point h
(h) producing low-carbon, clean and efficient fuels from renewable or carbon- neutral sources.;
2018/12/17
Committee: ECONENVI
Amendment 435 #

2018/0178(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point h a (new)
(h a) producing low-carbon hydrogen.
2018/12/17
Committee: ECONENVI
Amendment 24 #

2018/0076(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4
(4) In order to facilitate the functioning of the Single Market and end the barriers between payment service users in the euro area and non-euro area Member States in respect of all cross-border payments in euro, it is necessary to ensure that charges for cross- border payments in euroany currency of the Union taking place within the Union are progressively aligned with charges for domestic payments made in the official currency of athe Member State in which the payment service provider provides its services to the payment service user.
2018/09/18
Committee: ECON
Amendment 45 #

2018/0076(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7
(7) Considering the technical level of the measures required for transparency in currency conversion charges, the Commission should be empowered to adopt regulatory technical standards developed by the European Banking Authority with regard to the level of transparency required and the comparability of currency conversion services. The Commission should adopt those draft regulatory technical standards by means of delegated acts pursuant to Article 290 Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and in accordance with Articles 10 to 14 of Regulation (EU) No 1093/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council13 . _________________ 13 Regulation (EU) No 1093/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 November 2010 establishing a European Supervisory Authority (European Banking Authority), amending Decision No 716/2009/EC and repealing Commission Decision 2009/78/EC (OJ L 331, 15.12.2010, p. 12).deleted
2018/09/18
Committee: ECON
Amendment 60 #

2018/0076(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8
(8) In order to limit consumer detriment before market players are required to comply with the transparency measures, it is appropriate to instruct the European Banking Authority (‘EBA’) to define within the regulatory technical standard the level of a transitional cap that should be applied to limit charges for currency conversion services while at the same time maintaining fair competition among payment service providers.deleted
2018/09/18
Committee: ECON
Amendment 62 #

2018/0076(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point a
Regulation (EC) No 924/2009
Article 1– paragraph 1
1. This Regulation lays down rules on cross-border payments and transparency of currency conversion charges within the Union”,.
2018/09/18
Committee: ECON
Amendment 67 #

2018/0076(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point a
Regulation (EC) No 924/2009
Article 3 – paragraph 1
1. Charges levied by a payment service provider on a payment service user in respect of cross-border payments in euro shall be the same as the charges levied by that payment service provider on payment service users for corresponding national payments of the same value and in the official currency of the payment service user’s Member State.”Member State in which the payment service provider provides its services to the payment service user.",
2018/09/18
Committee: ECON
Amendment 72 #

2018/0076(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point a a (new)
Regulation (EC) No 924/2009
Article 3 – paragraph 1 –a (new)
(aa) Paragraph 1 -a is inserted: 1 -a. From [two years after the entry into force of this amending Regulation], charges levied by a payment service provider on a payment service user in respect of cross-border payments in any currency of the Union shall be the same as the charges levied by that payment service provider on payment service users for corresponding national payments of the same value and in the official currency of the Member State in which the payment service provider provides its service to the payment service user.
2018/09/18
Committee: ECON
Amendment 88 #

2018/0076(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Regulation (EC) No 924/2009
Article 3 a – paragraph 2
2. The European Banking Authority (‘EBA’) shall develop draft regulatory technical standards specifying how payment service providers shall ensure transparency and price comparability of different currency conversion service options, where those are available, to payment service users. Those standards shall include measures to be applied by payment service providers, including at an ATM or point of sale, to ensure that payment service users are informed about the costs of the currency conversion service and the alternative currency conversion options, where available, before the payment is initiated. The draft regulatory technical standards referred to in the first subparagraph shall also set the maximum amount of all charges allowed for the currency conversion services that can be applied to a payment transaction during the transitional period referred to in Article 3b. Those standards shall take into account the amount of the payment transaction and the fluctuation in exchange rates between currencies of Union Member States, while securing and maintaining fair competition among all payment service providers The regulatory technical standards shall specify the measures to be applied in order to prevent payment service users being charged more than this maximum amount during that period. EBA shall submit those draft regulatory technical standards to the Commission by [6 months after entry into force of this Regulation] Power is delegated to the Commission to adopt the regulatory technical standards referred to in the first subparagraph in accordance with Articles 10 to 14 of Regulation (EU) No 1093/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council*. __________________________________ _______________________________ * Regulation (EU) No 1093/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 November 2010 establishing a European Supervisory Authority (European Banking Authority), amending Decision No 716/2009/EC and repealing Commission Decision 2009/78/EC (OJ L 331, 15.12.2010, p. 12).deleted
2018/09/18
Committee: ECON
Amendment 105 #

2018/0076(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4
Regulation (EC) No 924/2009
Article 3 b (new)
(4) the following Article 3b is inserted: ‘Article 3b Transitional period During the transitional period between the entry into force of the regulatory technical standards referred to in the fourth subparagraph of Article 3a(2) and the date of application of Article 3a(1), the charges for currency conversion services shall not exceed the maximum amount set in the regulatory technical standards adopted in accordance with the fourth subparagraph of Article 3a(2);’deleted
2018/09/18
Committee: ECON
Amendment 52 #

2018/0073(CNS)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 5
(5) Given the problem of taxing the digital economy is of a global nature, the ideal approach would be to find a multilateral, international solution to it. The Commission is actively engaged in the international debate for that reason. Work at the OECD, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the United Nations (UN) and the World Bank Group (WBG), which form the platform for Collaboration on Tax is currently ongoing. However, progress at international level is challenging. Hence, action is being taken to adapt the corporate tax rules at Union level27 and to encourage agreements to be reached with non-Union jurisdictions28 , so that the corporate tax framework can be made to fit the new digital business models. _________________ 27 Proposal for a Council Directive laying down rules relating to the corporate taxation of a significant digital presence (COM(2018) 147 final). 28 Commission Recommendation relating to the corporate taxation of a significant digital presence (C(2018) 1650 final).
2018/10/22
Committee: ECON
Amendment 85 #

2018/0073(CNS)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 14
(14) Services consisting in the supply of digital content by an entity through a digital interface should initially be excluded from the scope of the tax, regardless of whether the digital content is owned by that entity or that entity has acquired the rights to distribute it. Even if some sort of interaction between the recipients of such digital content may be allowed and therefore the supplier of such services could be seen as making available a multi- sided digital interface, it is less clear that the user plays a central role in the creation of value for the company supplying the digital content. Instead, the focus from the perspective of value creation is on the digital content itself which is supplied by the entity. Therefore the revenues obtained from such supplies should fall outside the scope of the taxbe evaluated by the Commission within two years of the entry into force of this Directive in order to asses if they should be covered by the DST.
2018/10/22
Committee: ECON
Amendment 123 #

2018/0073(CNS)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 40 a (new)
(40a) Two years after...[the date of entry into force of this Directive], the Commission should make an assessment of the application of this Directive and present a report to the European Parliament and the Council, accompanied, where appropriate, by proposals for its review in accordance with the principles of fair taxation of the digital sector.
2018/10/22
Committee: ECON
Amendment 124 #

2018/0073(CNS)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 40 b (new)
(40b) DST is a temporary measure which should by no means delay the entrance into force of a permanent solution and it should expire simultaneously after the entrance into force of this permanent solution.
2018/10/22
Committee: ECON
Amendment 140 #

2018/0073(CNS)

Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Taxable revenues resulting from the provision of services listed in paragraph 1 shall be reduced by the part of those revenues generated by an entity in a Member State from users located in that Member State if such revenues are reported by this entity for corporate income tax purposes in that Member State and subject to corporate income tax in that Member State.
2018/10/22
Committee: ECON
Amendment 154 #

2018/0073(CNS)

Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. For the purpose of calculating the proportion of an entity’s total taxable revenues that is treated under paragraph 1 as obtained in a Member State under point 3, the users located in the Member States where the entity has met the criteria to exclude revenues from taxable revenues in accordance with Article 3 paragraph 5a shall be excluded from the calculating of the proportion of an entity’s taxable revenues allocated to each Member State.
2018/10/22
Committee: ECON
Amendment 157 #

2018/0073(CNS)

Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 1
DST shall be chargeable in a Member State on the proportion of taxable revenues obtained by a taxable person in a tax period that is treated under Article 5 as obtained in that Member State unless the entity is subject to corporate income tax on its total amount of taxable revenues in that Member State. The DST shall become due in that Member State on the next working day following the end of that tax period.
2018/10/22
Committee: ECON
Amendment 177 #

2018/0073(CNS)

Proposal for a directive
Article 24 a (new)
Article 24a Review Clause Two years after...[the date of entry into force of this Directive], the Commission should make an assessment of the application of this Directive and present a report to the European Parliament and the Council, accompanied, where appropriate, by proposals for its review in accordance with the principles of fair taxation of the digital sector. Furthermore the Commission should assess, notably, the impact on the entities which were covered by the scope of the DST, the amount of tax paid in each Member State, the type of digital activities within the scope of this Directive and the kinds of taxable revenue, in addition to the rate applied and the potential tax planning practices that were applied by entities to avoid paying the DST.
2018/10/22
Committee: ECON
Amendment 93 #

2018/0043(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 22
(22) In a number of Member States, innovative structures for maturity profiles have been developed in order to address potential liquidity risks, including maturity mismatches. These structures include the possibility to extend the scheduled maturity of the covered bond for a certain period of time or to allow the cash flows from the assets in the cover pool to pass directly to the covered bond holders. IMaturity extensions, by providing an alternative to insolvency or resolution, allow the credit institution to mitigate fire sales and increase investor protection. However, it is important in order to harmonise extendable maturity structures across the Union that the conditions under which Member States may allow these structures be defined to ensure that they are not too complex or expose investors to increased risks.
2018/09/26
Committee: ECON
Amendment 98 #

2018/0043(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 1
(1) 'covered bond' means a debt obligation issued by a credit institution or a specialized mortgage credit institution and secured by a cover pool of assets which covered bond investors have direct recourse to as preferred creditors;
2018/09/26
Committee: ECON
Amendment 101 #

2018/0043(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 5
(5) 'specialised mortgage credit institution' means a credit institution which: (a) funds loans solelygranted loans and/or purchased receivables through the issue of covered bonds, which(b) is permitted by law to carry out mortgage and public sector lending only, and which(c) is not permitted to take deposits but can take other repayable funds from the public;, without prejudice for ancillary and additional activities restricted and specified in relevant Member States law.
2018/09/26
Committee: ECON
Amendment 111 #

2018/0043(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Member States may lay down rules for the covered bonds acceleration upon bondholders decision.
2018/09/26
Committee: ECON
Amendment 172 #

2018/0043(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 10 – paragraph 1
Member States shall ensure investor protection bylay down rules providing for a sufficient level of homogeneity of the assets in the cover pool so that they shall be of a similar nature in terms of structural features, lifetime of assets or risk profilethe type of collateral backing the claims in the cover pool. With respect to the assets referred to in Article 6, a cover pool shall be considered sufficiently homogenous if its primary assets belong to one of the following three groups: – assets compliant with points (a) to (c) of Article 129(1) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013; – assets compliant with points (d) to (f) of Article 129(1) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013; – assets compliant with point (g) of Article 129(1) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013. Nevertheless, Member States shall allow multiple separate homogeneous cover pools in respect of an asset class.
2018/09/26
Committee: ECON
Amendment 198 #

2018/0043(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 11 – paragraph 2 – point b
(b) the limits on the amount of derivative contracts in the cover pool;deleted
2018/09/26
Committee: ECON
Amendment 285 #

2018/0043(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 32 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Member States shall adopt and publish, by [to be inserted – entry into force + 12 years] at the latest, the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive. They shall forthwith communicate to the Commission the text of those provisions.
2018/09/26
Committee: ECON
Amendment 10 #

2017/2283(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas, in this context, the major achievements in EU-Ukraine relations such as the entry into force of the visa- free regime on 11 June 2017 and the Association Agreement on 1 September 2017 are to be welcomed;
2018/09/10
Committee: AFET
Amendment 11 #

2017/2283(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas since the signature of the Association Agreement in 2014 Ukraine has made more pro-European reforms than during all previous years of Ukrainian independence;
2018/09/10
Committee: AFET
Amendment 14 #

2017/2283(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B
B. whereas Ukraine deserves particular praise for reforms in the areas of energy, health, pensions, education and decentralisation, decentralisation, public procurement, as well as its banking sector and the macro- economic stabilisation of the country;
2018/09/10
Committee: AFET
Amendment 19 #

2017/2283(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital C
C. whereas while condemning the continued Russian aggression in Eastern Ukraine and Russia’s illegal occupation of Crimea, its occupation of some regions of the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, and Russia’s illegal occupation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, all of which breach international law and Russia's commitments and obligations within its membership in international organizations, it is to be recognised that Ukraine is facing challenges of a transformational nature in an environment of warfare and destabilisation attempts;
2018/09/10
Committee: AFET
Amendment 26 #

2017/2283(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas the European Parliament shares the official position of the European Union reiterating its strong support for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine within its internationally recognized borders;
2018/09/10
Committee: AFET
Amendment 31 #

2017/2283(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)
Cb. whereas in the context of the Russia-led aggression on Ukraine EU restrictive measures against the Russian Federation were introduced and regularly extended; whereas a stronger EU strategy and engagement in the conflict resolution is to be expected through e.g. an appointment of an EU special envoy for the conflict in Eastern Ukraine and Crimea; whereas the sanctions against Russia should be rolled over and broadened until the Russian Federation enables Ukraine to fully restore sovereignty and territorial integrity;
2018/09/10
Committee: AFET
Amendment 36 #

2017/2283(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital C c (new)
Cc. whereas the European Parliament and the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Association Committee (PAC) have repeatedly called for an international format of negotiations on de-occupation of the Crimean peninsula, with the participation of the EU;
2018/09/10
Committee: AFET
Amendment 46 #

2017/2283(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Stresses the need to improve the internal decision-making in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine to streamline and prioritise the adoption of draft laws related to the implementation of the Association Agreement; believes in this regard that the role of the Committee for European Integration should be enhanced and should be able to block legislation which contradicts the commitments taken under the Association Agreement; stresses that these reforms should be done before the end of the current legislature;
2018/09/10
Committee: AFET
Amendment 51 #

2017/2283(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Emphasises the urgent need for practical technical, expert and financial assistance, focused on capacity-building of the Verkhovna Rada; welcomes the hitherto work of the European Parliament on capacity building as well as the Jean Monnet Dialogue process;
2018/09/10
Committee: AFET
Amendment 52 #

2017/2283(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Points to persistent ‘silo mentalities’ within certain ministries, which are preventing a coherent position on European integration matters; calls, in this respect, for more cooperation within the Government and in the Verkhovna Rada on EU-related issues;
2018/09/10
Committee: AFET
Amendment 60 #

2017/2283(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Underlines that the Association Agreement does not constitute the final goal of EU-Ukraine relations and welcomes Ukraine's European aspirations; supports the development of new forms of enhanced cooperation such as Ukraine's gradual approximation with the EU's Customs Union, Energy Union and Digital Single Market;
2018/09/10
Committee: AFET
Amendment 61 #

2017/2283(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Points out that Ukraine has a European perspective pursuant to Article 49 TEU, and may apply to become a member of the European Union provided that it adheres to the Copenhagen criteria and the principles of democracy, respects fundamental freedoms and human and minority rights, and upholds the rule of law;
2018/09/10
Committee: AFET
Amendment 63 #

2017/2283(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Welcomes the very intense dialogue carried out between the EU and Ukraine at many different levels, not least between the European Parliament and the Rada through e.g. the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Association Committee, including on many controversial issues;
2018/09/10
Committee: AFET
Amendment 104 #

2017/2283(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
17. Remains deeply concerned at the growing number of illegally detained Ukrainian citizens from the temporarily occupied territories who have been arrested, sentenced and imprisoned by the Russian authorities, including Oleh Sentsov; reiterates its demand to Russia for their immediate and unconditional release;
2018/09/10
Committee: AFET
Amendment 140 #

2017/2283(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Believes that consolidating Ukraine’s economy and addressing pressing social challenges, such as unemployment, underemployment, grey economy, etc. will require a significant increase of investments; calls the Ukrainian authorities to undertake the necessary reforms to attract new investments, FDIs in particular; in this context, welcomes the recently agreed Reform Contract for Investment and calls the Commission to step up its approach to reduce risks for the private sector to invest in Ukraine; invite Member States to join forces with the Commission in this respect and to promote Ukraine as an investment destination among their business communities;
2018/09/10
Committee: AFET
Amendment 142 #

2017/2283(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 b (new)
24b. Notes Ukraine's commitment, under the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement, to combat and prevent illicit trade; Calls on Ukraine to take steps in order to criminalize illicit trade;
2018/09/10
Committee: AFET
Amendment 145 #

2017/2283(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
25. Praises Ukraine for good cooperation in the energy sector, not least the progress it has made in energy efficiency; reiterates the strategic status of EU-Ukraine energy partnership; points out the need for continued reforms, in particular to complete reform of the gas and electricity market, and to end existing monopolies, which will bring long-term economic benefits to industry and consumers;
2018/09/10
Committee: AFET
Amendment 150 #

2017/2283(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
25. Praises Ukraine for good cooperation in the energy sector, not least the progress it has made in energy efficiency; points out the need for continued reforms, in particular to complete reform of the gas and electricity market, and to end existing monopolies, which will bring long-term economic benefits to industry and consumers; condemns the construction of Nord Stream-2 project as it is a political project posing a threat to European security;
2018/09/10
Committee: AFET
Amendment 163 #

2017/2283(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Believes and emphasises that provided it commits to implementing the AA and to respecting the principles of democracy, rule of law and fundamental freedoms, Ukraine (as other associated states - Moldova and Georgia) should be granted specific support mechanisms by the EU, including in the framework of the post-2020 Multi-Annual Financial Framework - in line with the "Eastern Partnership Plus" model, advocated by the European Parliament;
2018/09/10
Committee: AFET
Amendment 165 #

2017/2283(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Highlights the importance of proactive communication to Ukrainian citizens about the concrete benefits and goals of the Eastern Partnership;
2018/09/10
Committee: AFET
Amendment 166 #

2017/2283(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 b (new)
26b. Emphasises the importance of fighting Russia's fake news and propaganda, including its anticipated expected meddling in elections in Ukraine as well as throughout the European Union; calls for Ukraine-EU cooperation on this issue to be enhanced;
2018/09/10
Committee: AFET
Amendment 60 #

2017/2271(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Highlights that the EU-US relationship is the fundamental guarantor for global stability and has been the cornerstone of our efforts to ensure peace and stability for our societies since the end of the Second World War, and stronger multilateral economic cooperation and trade; believes that the ‘America first’ policy will harm the interests of both the EU and the US; stresses that while protectionism from any side should be avoided in the interest of both the EU and US, welcomes the counter-measures undertaken by the European Union after the unilateral announcement by the US of tariffs on steel and aluminium producers from the EU;
2018/06/11
Committee: AFET
Amendment 92 #

2017/2271(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Recalls the high potential and the strategic interest of this partnership for both the US and the EU in aiming to achieve mutual prosperity and security and to strengthen a rules-based global order; calls for the fostering of our dialogue and engagement on all aspects of this partnership; highlights that our decisions and actions have an impact on the global economy and security architecture, and the interests of both partners; welcomes in this context the presence of US troops on the EU territory, which - on the basis of cooperation with local military - guarantee strengthened stability and security for the region;
2018/06/11
Committee: AFET
Amendment 169 #

2017/2271(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
14. Takes note that other major world powers, such as Russia and China, have robust political and economic strategies, many of which may go against our values (by e.g. undermining and threatening Eastern European states' democratic choices and reforms), and it is therefore essential to foster the EU-US partnership, to continue to promote our common values, including compliance with international law, and to set up a joint sanctions policy;
2018/06/11
Committee: AFET
Amendment 196 #

2017/2271(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
16. Stresses the importance of cooperation, coordination and synergy effects in the field of security and defence and insists that burden sharing should not be solely focused on the target of spending 2 % of GDP on defence; states that NATO is still crucial for the collective defence of its European and non-European Members;
2018/06/11
Committee: AFET
Amendment 233 #

2017/2271(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Calls on the EU and US to jointly and effectively fight fake news and disinformation, which undermine democratic choices of our societies and question their principles as well as impair transatlantic security;
2018/06/11
Committee: AFET
Amendment 242 #

2017/2271(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
20. Emphasises that an important part of strengthening EU-US counter-terrorism efforts includes the protection of critical infrastructure as well as a comprehensive approach to fighting terrorism, also via coordination in regional and global forums;
2018/06/11
Committee: AFET
Amendment 246 #

2017/2271(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
21. Recalls that enhanced cooperation regarding the fight against money laundering and terrorist financing is crucial; calls on, in this respect, the EU and US to cooperate within the OECD in the fight against tax evasion and aggressive tax planning by setting international rules and norms to tackle this global problem;
2018/06/11
Committee: AFET
Amendment 281 #

2017/2271(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
24. Calls on the EU and the US to play a more active and effective role in the resolution of the conflict on Ukraine’s territory and to support all efforts for a lasting peaceful solution which respects the unity, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, while also backing all initiatives and measures aimed at facilitating further economic development of the country;
2018/06/11
Committee: AFET
Amendment 288 #

2017/2271(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Calls on the EU and US to effectively react to Russia's continuous aggression on Ukraine including by strongly cooperating in the sphere of introducing new sanctions and prolonging current ones against the people and institutions bearing responsibility for the annexation of Crimea and the Russian aggression on Ukraine;
2018/06/11
Committee: AFET
Amendment 8 #

2017/2226(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital A
A. whereas, according to Commission forecasts, the expansion of the European economy is expected to continue, although the pace of job creation and household purchasing power growth implies a slight loss of momentum over the next two years, with growth reaching 2.3 % this year4% in 2017 in the EU, and then marginally slowing down to 2.1 2% in 2018 and to ease slightly to 1.9 2.0% in 2019;
2018/01/17
Committee: ECON
Amendment 28 #

2017/2226(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital C
C. whereas the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) has provided important support for investment in the EU, in addition to the European Structural and Investment Funds, while at the same time the orientation of savings towards equity has decreased returns and provided fewer incentives for investment;
2018/01/17
Committee: ECON
Amendment 40 #

2017/2226(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital D
D. whereas employment is expected to continue to expand, while some labour market indicators and the relatively high level of ‘involuntary’ith a steadily growing level of part- time work, suggest persistent labour market difficulties aggravating inequalities;
2018/01/17
Committee: ECON
Amendment 51 #

2017/2226(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital E
E. whereas both employment and unemployment rates are still higher than in 2008; whereas hidden unemployment (unemployed, willingthe share of unemployed persons available to work, but not actively searching foreking employment) stood at 20 % in 20163.6% of active population;
2018/01/17
Committee: ECON
Amendment 67 #

2017/2226(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
F a. whereas private investment still remain below 2008 levels, with negative implications for potential growth, job creation and productivity;
2018/01/17
Committee: ECON
Amendment 100 #

2017/2226(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Stresses the importance of private investment for growth and job creation, and emphasises the need to create conducive legal and institutional environment for private investments to expand faster, especially in technologically more advanced areas with high potential spill overs;
2018/01/17
Committee: ECON
Amendment 159 #

2017/2226(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Recalls the importance of public investment for boosting and leveraging investment in the EU; notes with concern that the level of public investment in the EU as percent of GDP has declined over last several years; considers that the policy mix proposed in the AGS 2018 should be further developed to remedy the current decrease in public investment in the EU; highlights that this decrease also affects local and regional authorities, threatening their ability to deliver quality public services;
2018/01/17
Committee: ECON
Amendment 172 #

2017/2226(INI)

6. Asks foInvites the European Commission to consider a revision of the accounting standards (European System of National and Regional Accounts, ESA 2010) to ensure a depreciation of investments over a longer period, which would allow budgetary margins to recover and permit the realisation offor depreciation of capital investment (ESA 2010) in order to strike a balance between incentives to expand private investment and the need to secure budgetary revenues necessary to finance infrastructureal projects;
2018/01/17
Committee: ECON
Amendment 234 #

2017/2226(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. RegretConsiders that the overall neutral fiscal stance proposed in the recommendations for the euro area, even though the fiscal stance is expected to be slightly expansionary in a number of Member States in 2018, does not appear to fully support the is broadly appropriate given the present phase of the business cycle characterised by high level of economic activity and streongthening pace of economic growth and job creation;
2018/01/17
Committee: ECON
Amendment 268 #

2017/2226(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to adopt adequateffective measures to help refugees settle and integrate and to anticipate at an early stage the requirements forstop inflows of illegal migrants from third countries, and to take steps to help refugees eligible to stay in the EU settle and integrate, facilitating their smooth transition to the labour market, as well as ensuring that public services are provided with sufficient resources; stresses that social partners should play a key role in facilitating the integration of migrants and preventing them from suffering from labour abuse;
2018/01/17
Committee: ECON
Amendment 284 #

2017/2226(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
14. Considers that the tools available are not yet equal to the task of fully addressing the EU’s cyclical and structural problems, in particular the need to strengthen inclusive growth and productivity, to boost job creation, promote convergence, support sustainable investments, strengthen international competitiveness and enhance resilience to shocks;
2018/01/17
Committee: ECON
Amendment 347 #

2017/2226(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
18. Highlights the importance of an improved European Semester process, including the formalisation of the euro area aggregate fiscal stance as a key tool for policy formulation and implementation across the EMU; calls for a broader reform of the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) in order to improve its flexibility, to incorporate the differentiated treatment of investments and effectiveness, and to introduce the concept of aggregate fiscal stance;
2018/01/17
Committee: ECON
Amendment 365 #

2017/2226(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
19. Underlines that any further step towards a deepening of the EMU must go hand in hand with stronger democratic controls; insists that, to this end, the role of the European Parliament and national parliaments must be strengthened; asks to include trade unionsocial partners in the negotiation process at both national and European level; urges the launch of the long-awaited negotiation of an interinstitutional agreement (IIA) on the Semester;
2018/01/17
Committee: ECON
Amendment 39 #

2017/2191(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
7. Recalls that if anti-competitive practices are to be fought effectively, all aspects of unfair competition must be taken into consideration, including social dumpingunregistered work and fraudulent posting of workers.
2017/10/05
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 4 #

2017/2124(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 5
— having regard to the Commission communication of 16 November 2016 entitled ‘Towards a positive fiscal stance for the euro area’ (COM(2016)0727),deleted
2017/09/18
Committee: ECON
Amendment 23 #

2017/2124(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
B a. Whereas members of the ECB Executive Board have consistently emphasized the importance of rapid implementation of structural reforms in the euro area;
2017/09/18
Committee: ECON
Amendment 65 #

2017/2124(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Underlines the federal and independent nature of the ECB, which rules out national vetoes, enabling it to act decisively in various matters such as in addressing the crisis;
2017/09/18
Committee: ECON
Amendment 73 #

2017/2124(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Underlines that the main objective of the ECB's monetary policy is to maintain price stability;
2017/09/18
Committee: ECON
Amendment 74 #

2017/2124(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1 b. Stresses the necessity of complementing the ECB's monetary policy with ambitious national fiscal policies and structural reforms;Notes that this approach has been continuously underlined by the Members of the Executive Board of the ECB, including the ECB President himself;
2017/09/18
Committee: ECON
Amendment 274 #

2017/2124(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
16. Stresses that excessive current account surpluses in some Member States must be corrected through appropriate fiscal policies;deleted
2017/09/18
Committee: ECON
Amendment 491 #

2017/2124(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
35. Believes that ECB profits from seigniorage revenue should be considered an EU budgetary resource, since they are directly linked to a fully developed, sui generis European policy;deleted
2017/09/18
Committee: ECON
Amendment 515 #

2017/2124(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36
36. Considers that the ECB’s growing number of responsibilities and tasks necessitate greater ECB transparency and accountability towards Parliament; Welcomes the hitherto regular cooperation with the President of the ECB in the framework of the Monetary Dialogue;
2017/09/18
Committee: ECON
Amendment 186 #

2017/2114(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Shares the Commission’s view on the need for changes in labour market legislation that provide flexibility and security for both employees and employers, thereby increasing employment and ensuring sustainable growth; underlines the importance of maintaining the high employment rates;
2017/07/10
Committee: ECON
Amendment 239 #

2017/2114(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12 a. Emphasises that main reasons for low private investment are taxes, red tape and debts;
2017/07/10
Committee: ECON
Amendment 264 #

2017/2114(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14 a. Stresses that SMEs are the backbone of the European economy, and therefore they have to be supported by increasing their access to finance and by fighting the business uncertainty connected to their activities, also in relation with dealing with bankruptcy;
2017/07/10
Committee: ECON
Amendment 15 #

2017/2005(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
B a. whereas the high diversity of the national covered bond frameworks, in particular relating to technical aspects as the level of public supervision, is acknowledged;
2017/04/28
Committee: ECON
Amendment 18 #

2017/2005(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)
B b. whereas harmonisation should not be based on a one-size-fits-all approach as it could drive a serious reduction of product diversity and might negatively influence national markets that have been functioning well;
2017/04/28
Committee: ECON
Amendment 27 #

2017/2005(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Emphasises that the potential new European framework for covered bonds, aligning with best practises, should be a benchmark for fledgling markets.
2017/04/28
Committee: ECON
Amendment 89 #

2017/2005(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – point i a (new)
i a) National law provides authorization for further segregation of assets to be included in cover pool in order to give necessary opportunity to create separate homogeneous cover pools including homogenous asset classes (in particular such as residential and commercial)
2017/04/28
Committee: ECON
Amendment 98 #

2017/2005(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – point b
b) The maximum LTV parameters for mortgages included in cover pool are set by European law in such a way that they do not surpass the LTV ratios currently fixed in Article 129 CRR, but are subject to regular review and adjustment in line with independent assessments (stress tests) of pricing conditions which might prevail in the relevant real estate markets under stress;
2017/04/28
Committee: ECON
Amendment 125 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 12
(12) Such balanced criteria should be based on a concept of a sufficient link of a driver with a territory of a host Member State. Therefore, a time threshold should be established, beyond which the minimum rate of pay and the minimum annual paid holidays of the host Member State shall apply in case of international transport operations. This timeinternational transport operations should not be subject to Directives 96/71/EC 2014/67/EU. A seven day threshold should not apply to cabotage operations as defined by Regulations 1072/200918 and 1073/200919 since the entire transport operation is taking place in a host Member State. As a consequence the minimum rate of pay and the minimum annual paid holidays of the host Member State should apply from day seven to cabotage irrespective of the frequency and duration of theof operations carried out by a driver. _________________ 18 Regulation (EC) No 1072/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 October 2009 on common rules for access to the international road haulage market (OJ L 300, 14.11.2009, p. 72). 19 Regulation (EC) No 1073/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 October 2009 on common rules for access to the international market for coach and bus services, and amending Regulation (EC) No 561/2006 (OJ L 300, 14.11.2009, p.88)
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 134 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 12 a (new)
(12a) Due to the absence of a sufficient link of a driver with a territory of a host Member State, transit operations should not be subject to this Directive, Directive 96/71/EC and Directive 2014/67/EU.
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 139 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 13
(13) In order to ensure effective and efficient enforcement of the sector-specific rules on posting of workers and to avoid disproportionate administrative burdens for non-resident operators sector, specific administrative and control requirements should be established in the road transport sector, taking full advantage of control tools such as the digital tachograph. In order to ensure the effectiveness of controls, it is important to make a distinction between the checks carried out at the roadside and at the premises of the undertakings. The checks could also be carried out remotely by electronic or digital means.
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 148 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 13 a (new)
(13a) In order to facilitate the implementation, application and enforcement of this Directive, the internal Market Information System (IMI) established by Regulation (EU) No 1024/2012 should be used in Member States for the enhanced exchange of information between regional and local authorities across borders. It could also be an advantage to extend the features of IMI to include the submission and transmission of simple declarations.
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 165 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3 – point -a (new)
Directive 2006/22/EC
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
(-a) in paragraph 1, the first subparagraph is replaced by the following: "1. Member States shall organise a system of appropriate and regular checks on correct and consistent implementation, as referred to in Article 1, both at the roadside and at premises of undertakings of all transport categories. In particular, checks of compliance with the provisions of Directive 2002/15/EC shall be limited to checks at the premises of undertakings or to remote checks by electronic or digital means." Or. en (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal- content/EN/TXT/?qid=1518428909422&uri=CELEX:02006L0022-20170101)
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 182 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4
Directive 2006/22/EC
Article 6 – paragraph 1
1. Checks at premises shall be planned in the light of past experience in relation to the various types of transport and undertakings. They shall also be carried out if serious infringements of Regulation (EC) No 561/2006 or (EU) No 165/2014 orhave been detected at the roadside. Checks of compliance with Directive 2002/15/EC shavell been detected at the roadside. carried out exclusively at the premises of the undertakings or remotely by electronic or digital means;
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 242 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 9 – point a
Directive 2006/22/EC
Annex I – part A – point (6)
(a) in Part A, the following point (6) is added: ‘(6) Articles 4 and 5 of Directive 2002/15/EC.;’deleted weekly working times as set out in
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 256 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Transit operations shall be fully exempt from the scope of Directive 96/71/EC and of this Directive.
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 258 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. This Directive and Directive 96/71/EC shall not apply to undertakings established in cross-border regions and performing international transport operations as defined by Regulation (EC) No 1072/2009 in these cross-border regions within 100 km radius from the border.
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 278 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
Member States shall not apply points (b) and (c) of the first subparagraph of Article 3 (1) ofDirective 96/71/EC and Directive 96/712014/67/ECU to drivers in the road transport sector employed by undertakings referred to in Article 1(3)(a) of that Directive, when performing international carriwhen they perform international operations. When performing cabotage operations as defined by Regulations (EC) No 1072/2009 and 1073/2009 where the period of posting to their territory to perform these operations is shorter than or equal to 37 days during a period of one calendar month, Member States shall not apply points (b) and (c) of the first subparagraph of Article 3 (1) of Directive 96/71/EC.
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 311 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
When the period of posting is longer than 37 days as regards cabotage operations, Member States shall apply points (b) and (c) of the first subparagraph of Article 3 (1) of Directive 96/71/EC for the entire period of posting to their territory during the period of one calendar month referred to in the first subparagraph.
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 357 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 3 – point a
(a) a daily working period shorter than sixtwelve hours spent in the territory of a host Member State shall be considered as half a day;
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 368 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 3 – point b
(b) a daily working period of sixtwelve hours or more spent in the territory of a host Member State shall be considered as a full day;
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 384 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 3 – point c
(c) breaks and rest periods as well as periods of availability spent in the territory of a host Member State shall be considered as working period.
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 388 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Road transport operations falling under the scope of this Directive shall be excluded from rules on ''posting exceeding twenty-four months'' as referred in [Article 2a of Directive 96/71/EC as amended by 2016/0070(COD)].
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 392 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Road transport operations falling under the scope of this Directive shall be excluded from rules on collective agreements or arbitration awards which are not universally applicable as defined in Article 3(8) of Directive 96/71/EC.
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 401 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 4 – introductory part
4. By way of derogation from Article 9(1) and (2) of Directive 2014/67/EU, Member States may only impose the following administrative requirements and control measures:
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 422 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 4 – point a – introductory part
(a) an obligation for the road transport operator established in another Member State to send a postingvia a dedicated public interface of IMI a standardised, electronic, simple declaration to the national competent authorities at the latest at the commencement of the posting, in electronic form, in an official language of the host Member State or in English, containing only the following information:
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 463 #

2017/0121(COD)

(aa) For the purpose of point (a) of this paragraph the road transport operator may provide a declaration covering a period of a maximum of six months. The information in points (ii) to (vi) shall be updated electronically by the road transport operator in line with the current factual situation. The public interface of the IMI dedicated to transport operators shall contain country specific information with concrete rates of pay (remuneration) and employment conditions applicable to drivers in all Member States as well as links to all single official national websites established by Article 5 of Directive 2014/67/EU.
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 472 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 4 – point b
(b) an obligation for the driver to keep and make available, where requested at the roadside control, in paper or electronic form, a copy of the postingsimple declaration and evidence of transport operation taking place in the host Member State, such as an electronic consignment note (e-CMR) or evidence referred to in Article 8 of Regulation (EC) No 1072/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 493 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 4 – point d
(d) an obligation for the driver to keep and make available, where requested at the roadside control, in paper or electronic form, a copy of the employment contract or an equivalent document within the meaning of Article 3 of Council Directive 91/533/EEC20 , translated into one of the official languages of the host Member State or into English; _________________ 20 Council Directive 91/533/EEC of 14 October 1991 on an employer's obligation to inform employees of the conditions applicable to the contract or employment relationship (OJ L 288, 18.10.1991, p. 32)deleted
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 513 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 4 – point e
(e) an obligation for the driver to make available, where requested at the roadside control, in paper or electronic form, a copy of payslips for last two months; during the roadside check, the driver shall be allowed to contact the head office, the transport manager or any other person or entity which may provide this copy;deleted
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 554 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 5
5. For the purposes of point (a) of paragraph 4 the road transport operator may provide a posting declaration covering a peDuring the roadside check, the driver shall be allowed to contact the head office, the transport manager or any other person or entity which may help in carrying out the check. Checks and controls of an employment contract or an equivalent document within the meaning of Article 3 of Council Directive 91/533/EEC and/ or payslips shall be carrioed of a maximum of six months. ut solely at the premises. Member States shall proceed in line with the procedures laid down in Articles 6, 7 and 8 of Directive 2014/67/EU.
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 590 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
They shall apply those provisions from [insert the date of entry into force of Directive 96/71/EC* as amended by 2016/0070(COD)].
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 592 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 a (new)
The European transport sector because of its specificity and highly mobile nature shall be exempt from the application of the Posting of Workers Directive 96/71/EC* until the entry into force of this Directive.
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 102 #

2017/0063(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 34
(34) The deterrent effect of fines differs widely across Europe and in some Member States the maximum amount of the fine that can be set is very low. To ensure NCAs can set deterrent fines, the maximum amount of the fine should be set at a level of not less than 10% of the total worldwide turnover of the undertaking concerned. This should not prevent Member States from maintaining or introducing a higher maximum amount of the fine.
2017/11/06
Committee: ECON
Amendment 133 #

2016/2908(RSP)


Paragraph 31 a (new)
31a. Calls on the Commission to make an assessment of potential shortcomings in EU consumer law, including Consumer Sales and Guarantees Directive and Unfair Commercial Practises Directive, in order to make sure that if the rules are breached, consumers are entitled to fair compensation;
2017/01/24
Committee: EMIS
Amendment 43 #

2016/2248(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
14. Anticipates, in respect of the single market in goods, a Commission proposal for a revision of the Mutual Recognition Regulation which should ensure that companies have an effective right to free circulation within the EU of products that are lawfully marketed in a Member State; emphasizes that the Principle of Mutual Recognition is not applied and respected properly by Member States which, thus, often makes companies focus on overcoming the difficulties connected to the lack of implementation instead of making business;
2016/11/16
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 44 #

2016/2248(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
16. Takes the view that advancing the Digital Single Market is crucial to stimulating growth, creating quality jobs, promoting necessary innovation in the EU market, keeping the European economy globally competitive and bringing benefits to both businesses and consumers;
2016/11/16
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 119 #

2016/2243(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that legislation in the financial domain should be proportionate, frequently revised and in accordance with the ‘Innovation Principle’, so that potential effects on innovation will be part of the impact assessment; stresses that MSs should create the right microclimate for innovative finance with the proper balance between openness and security.
2017/03/09
Committee: ECON
Amendment 5 #

2016/2101(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
1. Reiterates the importance of a well- functioning, competitive and integrated Single Market, strictly based on all of the EU's four freedoms. to the recovery of the European economy after the financial crisis; supports the inclusion of Country- Specific Recommendations (CSRs) which go beyond narrow fiscal and macroeconomic targets and allow for a more balanced policy mix with the potential to help sustain a socially balanced recovery; welcomes this repositioning, as well as the streamlined structure of CSRs;
2016/07/13
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 14 #

2016/2101(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to monitor the progress made by the Member States, and reiterates the importanc; States that, while the Single Market is a backbone ofn the formal inclusion of thEU economy, Single Market issues should be Single Marketcluded in the already existing pillar ins of the European Semester so as to enable continuou; Stresses, nevertheless, that CSRs monitoring of Single Market indicators, allowing for systematic follow-up and assessment of Member States’ progre- related questions should continue be proposed by the Commiss ion CSRs;.
2016/07/13
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 39 #

2016/2101(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
8. Condemns the barriers which still exist, which are being created and will be created in the future, that hinder a well- functioning and integrated Single Market, in particular the partial transposition and implementation of the Services Directive by many Member States, and calls on the Commission to enforce more effectively what Member States have signed up to in European law;
2016/07/13
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 126 #

2016/2101(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses that Europe’s long economic crisis has shown that there is a strong need to focus on public and private investment, on innovation as well as on improving business environment, in order to enhance the EU’s competitiveness;
2016/08/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 232 #

2016/2101(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. Emphasises the need to improve the EU’s overall capacity to create and sustain jobs and thus to tackle high levels of unemployment, while considering that migration could play an important role in compensating for the negative effects of the ageing population; emphasises, however, that this alone cannot be the main response to address structural demographic, labour market or fiscal challenges but that it should be complemented with efficient public expenditure, especially in high-quality social and environmentally sustainable investments;
2016/08/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 255 #

2016/2101(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Highlights the importance of resilient and efficient labour markets where an appropriate trade-off is maintained between economic, social and human costs in accordance with the EU values of solidarity and subsidiarity, with a focus on the upgrading of educational systems and vocational education;
2016/08/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 268 #

2016/2101(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
14. Invites the Commission to give priority to measures that reduce the obstacles to greater investment flows, which arise at both an EU level from a lack of clarity regarding strategies that are to be followed, especially in the fields of energy, transport, communications and the digital economy, as well as from the effect on bank lending in the wake of the adoption of the banking union, and a national level from cumbersome legal systems, corruption, lack of transparency, outdated bureaucracy, inadequate digitalisation of public services, lack of mutual recognition of academic and technical qualifications in the professions and certain services sectors, and educational systems that remain out of synch with modern requirements; Stresses the importance to complete the single market;
2016/08/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 280 #

2016/2101(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Deeply deplores the fact that with regard to the Europe 2020 strategy, the biggest failure to be recorded concerns the goal of reducing the scale of poverty in the Union, as not only will the goal might not be reached, but poverty will in fact have increased;
2016/08/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 300 #

2016/2101(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
16. Underlines the importance of better addressing the high tax wedge on labour given that high taxation diminishes incentives for the inactive, the unemployed, second earners and low-wage earners to return to employment, by promoting a growth-friendly tax shift towards consumption and environmental taxes;
2016/08/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 65 #

2016/2033(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Takes the view that cooperation between the Member State tax authorities has been inadequate in the past and the activities of Eurofisc have to date failed achieve any satisfactory results;
2016/06/02
Committee: ECON
Amendment 79 #

2016/2033(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the authorities responsible to exchange VAT and excise information in particular and to use all available technical means to record cross-border deliveries of goods and services to end- users;
2016/06/02
Committee: ECON
Amendment 130 #

2016/2033(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Takes the view that the complete abolition of minimum tax rates as an alternative, as advocated by the Commission, might cause considerable distortions of competition and problems in the single market and can only be sanctioned if the reverse charge procedure is introduced for allselected levels and types of VAT and not only for individual sectors which are particularly susceptible to fraud;
2016/06/02
Committee: ECON
Amendment 203 #

2016/2033(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Recognising that different VAT regimes across the European Union might be also perceived as a non-tariff barrier in the Single Market, underlines that the VAT Mini One-Stop Shop (VAT MOSS) is a good way of supporting the overcoming of this barrier and in particular of supporting SMEs in their cross-border activity; acknowledges that there are still some minor problematic issues with the VAT MOSS; calls on the Commission to further facilitate the payment of VAT obligations by companies across the EU;
2016/06/02
Committee: ECON
Amendment 234 #

2016/2033(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
28. Calls for a treaty change so that the ordinary legislative procedure, with co-decision by Parliament and the Council, can be introduced in the context of the VAT Directive;deleted
2016/06/02
Committee: ECON
Amendment 182 #

2016/0404(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall ensure thatundertake an assessment in accordance with the rules laid down in this Directive before introducing new or amending existing legislative, regulatory or administrative provisions restricting access to or pursuit of regulated professions, or amending existing ones, the relevant competent authorities undertake an assessment of their proportionality in accordance with the rules laid down in this Directive.
2017/09/08
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 218 #

2016/0404(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 1
1. Before introducing new, or amending existing, legislative, regulatory or administrative provisions restricting access to or pursuit of regulated professions, or amending existing ones, Member States shall assess whether those provisions are necessary and suitable for securing the attainment of the objective pursued and do not go beyond what is necessary to attain that objective. The extent of the assessment shall be proportionate to the nature, the content and the impact of the provision being introduced, in view of all regulation in place, taking into account the reasonable margin of appreciation of the Member States within the limits of the principles of non-discrimination and proportionality.
2017/09/08
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 231 #

2016/0404(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
2. When assessing the necessity and the proportionality of the provisions, the relevant competent authoritiMember States shall consider in particular:
2017/09/08
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 71 #

2016/0403(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6
(6) Cross-border trade and cross-border investment in certain business and constructionconstruction and business services are particularly low showing a potential for better integration of services markets with significant negative repercussions for the remaining part of the economy. This underperformance leads to situations where the potential for more growth and jobs in the Single Market has not been fully exploited.
2017/12/01
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 77 #

2016/0403(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10
(10) In so doing, this Regulation specifically targets business and constructionconstruction and business service sectors included in scope of Directive …[ESC Directive]… which face some of the most stringent regulatory and administrative barriers to cross-border expansion and consequently have an unexploited potential for internal market integration.
2017/12/01
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 98 #

2016/0403(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 25
(25) Procedures for issuing, updating, suspending or revoking a European services e-card should make use of documents only in exceptional circumstances, when more detailed information is absolutely essential. In any case, all of such documents should be used and accepted in simple form.
2017/12/01
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 108 #

2016/0403(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 31
(31) In order to ensure uniform implementation of this Regulation in relation to the presentation of the description of liabilities according to Article 11, implementing powers to adopt rules on the standardiszed presentation format of that statement should be conferred on the Commission. Those powers should be exercised in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
2017/12/01
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 116 #

2016/0403(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
This Regulation does not affect the matters mentioned in Article 1(2) to (7) of Directive 2006/123/EC. It shall not have any impact on the regulatory requirements for the provision of services that are in place at national level, such as rules concerning social protection, consumer rights, health and safety or the environment. It does therefore not introduce the country of origin principle.
2017/12/01
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 122 #

2016/0403(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 1
1. "information on the good repute of a provider" means information as referred to in Article 33 (1) of Directive 2006/123/EC - provided that this means only completed procedures;
2017/12/01
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 123 #

2016/0403(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 14
14. "home Member State" means the Member State toin which a provider addressed the application for a European services e-carose territory the provider of the service concerned is established;
2017/12/01
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 124 #

2016/0403(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 19 a (new)
19a. ‘insurance intermediary’ means any natural or legal person, other than an insurance or reinsurance undertaking or their employees and other than an ancillary insurance intermediary, who, for remuneration, takes up or pursues the activity of insurance distribution in accordance with Article 2(1) of Directive EU 2016/97 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
2017/12/01
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 130 #

2016/0403(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3 – point b
(b) statistical identification code of the service activity, the host Member State, the type of European services e-card envisagedies that the applicant envisages to provide, the host Member State where the applicant intends to provide services, the type of European services e-card envisaged, specifying whether the applicant intends to make use of a reserved title while establishing in the host Member State, as appropriate;
2017/12/01
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 131 #

2016/0403(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3 – point c a (new)
(ca) indication whether pre-approval as an economic operator active in public procurement in accordance with Article 64 of Directive 2014/24/EU or Article 46 of Directive 2009/81/EC is envisaged;
2017/12/01
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 134 #

2016/0403(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3 – point g
(g) information on any existing professional indemnliability insurance of the provider in relation to professional liability in the territory of the home Member State, including information on the cover for activities carried out in the territory of other Member States, as appropriate;
2017/12/01
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 141 #

2016/0403(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 4
4. Member States shall provide to the Commission with all information on the procedural steps related to requirements imposed on providers for the provision of services through a branch, agency or office and for temporary cross-border provision of service activities falling under Directive …[ESC Directive]……….., necessary for the development of the standard application forms, describing the information and documents the presentation of which is required under national law of the provider in relation to all applicable requirements, through IMI by [9 months after entry into force of this Regulation] to the extent that the information was not contained in the notification of the requirement itself already submitted under Articles 15(7) and 39(5) of Directive 2006/123/EC. The procedural steps mentioned in the preceding subparagraph shall include those regarding registration in the official lists of approved economic operators in accordance with Article 64 of Directive 2014/24/EU and Article 46 of Directive 2009/81/EC, as appropriate.
2017/12/01
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 144 #

2016/0403(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
The insurance distributorundertaking or the body appointed by a Member State to provide compulsory insurance shall provide the certificate to the applicant upon requesinsurance distributor or to the applicant upon request. The insurance intermediary shall hand the certificate over to the applicant.
2017/12/01
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 148 #

2016/0403(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Providers who are natural persons and apply for or already hold a European services e-card may submit a declaration in advance in relation to their own professional qualifications in an electronic platform connected to IMI under the same conditions as prescribed by paragraph 1 of Article 6 in relation to their workers.
2017/12/01
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 149 #

2016/0403(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Regarding declarations in advance in relation to the professional qualifications of the provider, the proof of nationality, the details of insurance cover, the attestations referred to in points (b) and d) of Article 7(2) of Directive 2005/36/EC and the means of proof referred to in point (d) of that Article shall be replaced by the completed application form for a European services e- card, communicated to the host Member State in accordance with Article 11 of Directive ... [ESC Directive]…….., proving legal establishment of the provider.
2017/12/01
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 173 #

2016/0403(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Before adopting a delegated act, the Commission shall consult experts designated by each Member State in accordance with principles laid down in the Interinstitutional Agreement on Better law-making of 13 April 2016.
2017/12/01
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 178 #

2016/0403(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 1
By 360 months after entry into force of this Regulation and at the latest every five years thereafter, the Commission shall carry out an evaluation of this Regulation and submit to the European Parliament and the Council a report on its performance, including an analysis of the impact on administrative burden incurred upon by service providers active across borders. This report shall also include an assessment of any practical experience relevant to cooperation between coordinating authorities. This report shall contain an assessment of the appropriateness of introducing a European services e-card for other service activities. It shall contain an evaluation of Directive …….[ESC Directive] in line with its Article 21.
2017/12/01
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 179 #

2016/0403(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 2 a (new)
The Commission shall, as part of the review, assess whether and how to introduce a harmonised multilingual format for the insurance certificate as referred to in Article 5 of this Regulation. If the outcome of the assessment deems a standardised multilingual format for the insurance certificate appropriate, the Commission shall adopt rules accordingly.
2017/12/01
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 81 #

2016/0402(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Title 1
Proposal for a DIRECTIVE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on the legal and operational framework of the European services e-card introduced by Regulation ....[ESC Regulation].... (Text with EEA relevance) and for the coordination of provisions concerning the freedom of establishment and the freedom to provide certain services
2017/12/01
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 82 #

2016/0402(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Citation 1
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Articles 50(1), 53(1) and 62 thereof,
2017/12/01
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 90 #

2016/0402(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 5
(5) Cross-border trade and cross-border investment in certain business and constructionconstruction and business services are particularly low showing a potential for better integration of services markets with significant negative repercussions for the remaining part of the economy. This underperformance leads to situations where the potential for more growth and jobs in the Single Market has not been fully exploited.
2017/12/01
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 92 #

2016/0402(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 7
(7) In order to make it easier to take up and pursue service activities, this Directive builds upon Directive 2006/123/EC but does in no way amend its rules. The scope of this Directive is even more limited compared to the scope laid down in the Services Directive. It specifically targets business and constructionconstruction and business service sectors, where many obstacles to cross-border activities still remain. In addition, cross- border trade and investment in construction and several business services are low and both sectors have seen weak productivity growth over the last decade.
2017/12/01
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 95 #

2016/0402(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 7 a (new)
(7 a) Other service sectors suffer from a similarly low level of cross-border trade and cross-border investment, do not have sector-specific legislation to allow their cross-border expansion and are important for business because of their role as service recipients.However, it is important to give time to the Commission to adapt the IMI to this Directive and to the Member States to adopt measures to implement the European services e- card.Therefore, the power to adopt acts in accordance with Article 290 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union should be delegated to the Commission in respect of extending the scope of this Directive to those other sectors at later stage under specific conditions.
2017/12/01
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 114 #

2016/0402(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 26
(26) A coordinating authority of the host Member State should provide clarity as to which requirements apply to the incoming service provider, considering the latter is already established in another Member State. The coordinating authority of the host Member State should ensure the provider knows which requirements govern performance of services in the host Member States, including those applicable once it obtains the European services e- card. The information on the requirements should be included in the application forms. For establishment, i.e., provision of services through branches, agencies or offices, the identification of applicable requirements by the coordinating authority of the host Member State fulfils a different purpose: it lists the requirements the compliance of which the incoming service provider is required to prove before the e- card can be issued.
2017/12/01
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 116 #

2016/0402(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 28 a (new)
(28 a) In the assessment of an application for a European services e- card, as specified in Article 12 and Article 13, the host Member State should not duplicate requirements and controls which are equivalent or essentially comparable as regards their purpose to which the provider is already subject in the home Member State.
2017/12/01
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 130 #

2016/0402(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1
This Directive lays down the legal and operational framework for the European services e-card introduced by Regulation ……[ESC Regulation]…….. and coordinates provisions concerning the freedom of establishment and the freedom to provide certain services.
2017/12/01
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 132 #

2016/0402(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1
1. TChapters II and III of this Directive appliesy to the services listed in thewithin the meaning of Annex I. Chapter IIIa of this Directive applies to the services within the meaning of Annex Ia.
2017/12/01
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 133 #

2016/0402(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
This Directive does not affect the matters mentioned in Article 1(2) to (7) of Directive 2006/123/EC. It shall not have any impact on the regulatory requirements for the provision of services that are in place at national level, such as rules concerning social protection, consumer rights, health and safety or the environment. It does therefore not introduce the country of origin principle.
2017/12/01
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 135 #

2016/0402(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
It shall not apply to the activities and fields mentioned in Article 2(2) and (3) of Directive 2006/123/EC or to information society services.
2017/12/01
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 138 #

2016/0402(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2
This Directive shall be without prejudice to the rights of workers, the obligations of service providers and related controls in Member States laid down in Directives 96/71/EC and 2014/67/EU, as well as in relation to posting of workers who are third country nationals from another Member State.
2017/12/01
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 141 #

2016/0402(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 1
1. "home Member State" means the Member State toin which a provider addressed the application for a European services e-carose territory the provider of the service concerned is established;
2017/12/01
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 144 #

2016/0402(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 1 a (new)
1 a. 'European services e-card' means an electronic certificate, resulting from a harmonised procedure, proving that its holder is a service provider legally established in the home Member State, entitled, in that territory, to provide the service activities in question, as well as proving that its holder is entitled to perform activity in the territory of the host Member State, without establishing there or through a branch, agency or office located therein, as the case may be, and to continue such provision, for as long as it remains valid.
2017/12/01
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 146 #

2016/0402(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 3 a (new)
3 a. “professional qualification requirements” means requirements of professional qualifications as defined in point (b) of Article 3(1) of Directive 2005/36/EC;
2017/12/01
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 147 #

2016/0402(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 3 b (new)
3 b. "corporate control" means control as defined in Article 3(2) of Council Regulation (EC) 139/2004;
2017/12/01
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 148 #

2016/0402(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 3 c (new)
3 c. "corporate designation" means a specific name or part of a name, including an ending designation, used to designate a corporate body.
2017/12/01
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 151 #

2016/0402(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 1
1. A European services e-card for temporary cross-border service provision is an electronic certification, resulting from a harmonised procedure, that stipulates the right of its holder to start provision of services, without establishing, in the host Member State, and to continue such provision, for as long as it remains valid. A host Member State shall not impose any prior authorisation scheme, prior notification scheme or an establishment requirement on the holder of a previously issued European services e- card for temporary cross-border provision of services as a condition for such provision of services in its territory. These schemes shall include registration in the official lists of approved economic operators in accordance with Article 64 of Directive 2014/24/EU and Article 46 of Directive 2009/81/EC, as appropriate.
2017/12/01
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 152 #

2016/0402(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 2
2. A European services e-card for secondary establishment is an electronic certification, resulting from a harmonised procedure, that stipulates the right of its holder to start provision of services in the host Member State through a branch, agency or office located in the territory of this Member State, and to continue such provision, for as long as it remains valid. A host Member State shall not impose any prior authorisation scheme or prior notification scheme on the holder of a previously issued European services e-card for establishment as a condition for establishment in its territory through a branch, agency or office located in its territory. These schemes shall include registration in the official lists of approved economic operators, in accordance with Article 64 of Directive 2014/24/EU and Article 46 of Directive 2009/81/EC, as appropriate.
2017/12/01
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 153 #

2016/0402(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 3
3. A host Member State shall refrain from imposing on holders of a previously issued European services e-card requirements other than those referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 the compliance of which has been or is deemed to have been verified under Artnot impose any authorisation scheme or notification scheme on a holder of a European services e-card, once service provision in its territory has started, which duplicates equivalent or essentially comparable controls to which the provider was subject as part of the procedure for issuing the European servicles 11 to 13e-card.
2017/12/01
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 154 #

2016/0402(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 5
5. Paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 are without prejudice to reporting obligations imposed on the holder of a European services e-card or the performance of checks, inspections or investigations from competent authorities during the provision of the service, in compliance with EU law. During the checks, authorities competent for inspections or investigations shall take into account the European services e– card as a proof of completion of the requirements foreseen in a European services e–card.
2017/12/01
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 159 #

2016/0402(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
A European services e-card for establishment shall be valid, as regards the service activities covered by that e-card, throughout the territory of the host Member State through one or more branches, agencies or offices located in the territory of this Member State except where an authorisation for each additional branch, agency or office is based on the provisions justified in accordance with Article 10(4) of Directive 2006/123/EC. In case an authorisation as referred to in the second subparagraph is required under the national law of the host Member State, an additional European services e-card may be requested in order for its holder to obtain the right to start provision of services in the host Member State through the additional branch, agency or office in question.
2017/12/01
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 166 #

2016/0402(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 9 – paragraph 2
2. Providers of service activities for which a European professional card for establishment has been introduced, in accordance with Directive 2005/36/EC, shall not be eligible for a European services e-card for establishment. Those providers shall be eligible for a European services e-cardthat purpose except as regards requirements and provisions referenced in the second subparagraph of Article 4a(5) of Directive 2005/36 EC.
2017/12/01
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 167 #

2016/0402(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 10 – paragraph 1
In assessing applications for the European services e-card, Member States shall retainhave the right to invoke those overriding reasons of public interests recognised under Directive 2006/123/EC, in particular Article 16 thereof, or other acts of EU law.
2017/12/01
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 171 #

2016/0402(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part
The coordinating authority of the home Member State shall within onetwo weeks of having received an application for a European services e-card:
2017/12/01
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 174 #

2016/0402(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point c
(c) verify whether European services e- cards issued in relation to other home Member States for the same provider and service activityies have been revoked or cancelled, or that cancelation has been requested to allow replacement of those e- cards by the European services e-card to which the application refers to;
2017/12/01
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 178 #

2016/0402(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 11 – paragraph 2
2. The coordinating authority of the home Member State shall, upon completion of the tasks referred to in paragraph 1, communicate without delay the application to the coordinating authority of the host Member State, with information to the applicant. This communication shall constitute proof of establishment of the applicant in the territory of its home Member State, entitled, in that territory, to provide the service activities to which the application refers.
2017/12/01
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 179 #

2016/0402(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 12 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Within two weeks from receiving the application the coordinating authority of the host Member State shall examine it and inform the applicant and the coordinating authority of the home Member State of any requirements applicable to temporary cross-border provisions under the legislation of the host Member State with the exception of those referred to in Article 5(4). In line with the rights of Member States as referred to in Article 10, tThe application form shall include the information about abovementioned requirements. The coordinating authority of the host Member State may, alternatively and within the same time- limit, decide to object to the issue of the European services e-card by the coordinating authority of the home Member State where it demonstrates that in accordance withe application of a prior authorisation scheme, prior notification scheme or requirements to the applicant is justified for one of thosble Union law. In this case, the coordinating authority of the host Member State shall specify the applicable legislation and why the decision is necessary and appropriate for the purpose of safeguarding the overriding reasons of publicgeneral interest set out in Article 16 of Directive 2006/123/EC or is admissibleinvoked and how the decision does not go beyond what is necessary to attain that purpose, in accordance with other acts of EUUnion law.
2017/12/01
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 184 #

2016/0402(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 12 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
The host Member State shall take due account in that assessment of the requirements that the applicant already meets in its home Member States. For the purpose of that assessment and within the above-mentioned time-limit, the coordinating authority of the host Member State shall be allowed to request necessary clarifications or necessary additional information from the home Member State or the applicant which is not yet contained in the application. In that case, the time limit referred to in this paragraph is suspended until the requested necessary clarification or necessary additional information is supplied. If the host Member State finds that the requirements already met by the applicant in its home Member State sufficiently fulfil the purpose of the requirement imposed by the host Member State, the host Member State cannot object the European services e-card. The procedure for requesting clarifications or additional information will be laid down by way of the delegated acts referenced in paragraph 4.
2017/12/01
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 189 #

2016/0402(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 12 – paragraph 2
2. Taking into account the rights of Member States as referred to in Article 10, iIf the coordinating authority of the host Member State does not react within the time-limit referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article, that time limit shall automatically be extended by two additional weeks and t. The electronic platform where the application for a European services e-card has been submitted shall issue an alert to the coordinating authority of the host Member State to the effect that failure to react shall imply that there is no objection to the issue of the European services e-card to the applicant.
2017/12/01
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 191 #

2016/0402(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 12 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
If the host Member State does not object in accordance with paragraph 1, the coordinating authority of the home Member State shall issue the European services e-card without delay upon expiration of the extended time-limit resulting from the application of paragraph 2. In the absence of any objection under the second subparagraph of paragraph 1Member States shall ensure that, upon reception of the information mentioned in the first and second subparagraph of paragraph 1, the coordinating authority of the home Member State issues, without delay, the European Services Card. In the absence of any objection by the coordinating authority of the host Member State and failing a decision by the coordinating authority of the home Member State upon expiration of the extended time-limit resulting from the application of paragraph 2, the European services e-card shall be deemed to have been issued by the home Member State in the terms communicated to the host Member State in accordance with Article 11(2).
2017/12/01
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 195 #

2016/0402(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 13 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
In the context of a procedure for issuing a European services e-card for establishment in the form of a branch, agency or office, the coordinating authority of the host Member State shall, within four weeks from receiving the application, identify which,examine ift any, prior authorisation scheme or prior notification scheme as referred to in Article 5(2) is applicable, in compliance with EU law, to such establishment. If such a prior authorisation scheme or prior notification scheme has been identified, the host Member State shall also identify the conditions which the applicant is required to comply with, with the exception of those referred to in Article 5(5). The host Member State shall indicate why the application of such a prior authorisation scheme or prior notification scheme is necessary and proportionate for the pursuance of overriding reasons of public interestd determine whether compliance with requirements imposed under a prior authorisation scheme or prior notification scheme under its national law, is required. The host Member State shall take due account in that assessment of the requirements that the applicant already meets in its home Member State. The requirements mentioned in this paragraph shall not result in the need for reincorporation or corporate restructuring of the service provider in its home Member State, or in the need for cessation of activities legally pursued by the applicant in the territory of the home Member State.
2017/12/01
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 197 #

2016/0402(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 13 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
TUpon deciding to impose requirements under its national law in accordance with the preceding subparagraphs, the host Member State shall immediately inform the applicant and the coordinating authority of the home Member State of the prior authorisation or prior notification scheme in question, thelisting its conditions which the applicant is required to comply with and of the necessity and proportionality thereof, in accordance with Union law.
2017/12/01
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 199 #

2016/0402(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 13 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
Upon receipt of the reactdecision byof the coordinating authority of the host Member State to the applicationimpose requirements under its national law in accordance with paragraph 1, the applicant shall be allowed to provide proof of compliance with the conditions identified by the coordinating authority of the host Member State under the paragraph 1therein.
2017/12/01
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 204 #

2016/0402(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 13 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 4
Upon receipt of the observations of the applicant or, where no observations have been made, upon expiration of the time- limit to present those observations, the coordinating authority of the host Member State shall decide, within one week, whether to issue the European services e- card or reject the application for the European services e-card. The declaration of intention of rejection of the application and the decision to reject the application, notified to the holder of the European services e-card through the electronic platform where the standard form for application is made available, shall be fully reasoned, detailing which of the conditions identified in accordance with paragraph 1 have been deemed not complied with by the applicant and the reasons therefore.
2017/12/01
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 207 #

2016/0402(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 13 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 1 a (new)
Where the coordinating authority of the host Member State intends to reject the application in accordance with the conditions laid down in this Article, the coordinating authority of the host Member State shall inform the applicant and the coordinating authority of the home Member State, and state its reasons. The applicant shall have two weeks to submit its observations.
2017/12/01
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 208 #

2016/0402(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 14 – paragraph 1
1. Coordinating authorities in the home Member State shall not require providers to provide information andincluding documents which are available to those authorities in accordance with paragraph 2 of this Article or Article 14(32) of Regulation ….[ESC Regulation]….. when applying for a European services e-card or to prove compliance, in the context of a European services e-card for establishment, with conditions identified by the coordinating authority of the host Member State in accordance with Article 13(1).
2017/12/01
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 210 #

2016/0402(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 14 – paragraph 2
2. The coordinating authority in the home Member State shall obtain the information andincluding documents required for the purposes referred to in paragraph 1 which are available to other authorities in the home Member State or originate from those authorities, in accordance with the rules on the protection of personal data as provided for in Directive 95/46/EC, Regulation (EU) No 2016/679 and national legislation.
2017/12/01
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 214 #

2016/0402(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 15 – paragraph 2 – point i
(i) made use of information orincluding documents in the context of the procedure to issue the e-card which have been ascertained to be fraudulent, inaccurate or falsified by a final decision of either home or host Member State, not subject to appeal under the applicable national law;
2017/12/01
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 220 #

2016/0402(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 16 – paragraph 3 – point vi
(vi) is no longer legally established in the home Member State, for any other reason.
2017/12/01
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 221 #

2016/0402(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 17 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
A Member State which detects a reason to trigger the suspension or revocation of a European services e-card, in accordance with Articles 15 or 16, occurring in its territory shall communicate via IMI to the holder of the European services e-card in question the motivation therefore and shall give it the opportunity to be heard. The preceding subparagraph shall not apply in case of a measure put in place in accordance with Article 18 of Directive 2006/123/EC.
2017/12/01
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 223 #

2016/0402(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 17 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
Once a Member State concludes on the need to suspend or revoke a European services e-card it shall do so without delay, in case its coordinating authority is the issuing authority of the e-card in question, or it shall communicate without delay to the issuing coordinating authority its conclusion on the need to suspend or revoke the European services e-card in question, including by application of a measure put in place in accordance with Article 18 of Directive 2006/123/EC.
2017/12/01
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 224 #

2016/0402(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 17 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
The notification mentioned in Article 35(6) of Directive 2006/123/EC shall constitute the communication referred to in the first subparagraph, as appropriate. The issuing coordinating authority which receives the communication of a conclusion on the need to suspend or revoke the European services e-card from another Member State shall immediately suspend or revoke the European services e- card in question, as appropriate.
2017/12/01
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 227 #

2016/0402(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Chapter 3 a (new)
CHAPTER IIIa COORDINATION OF PROVISIONS CONCERNING FREEDOM OF ESTABLISHMENT AND THE PROVISION OF SERVICES LISTED IN ANNEX Ia Article 17a Legal form requirements Member States shall allow providers of services listed in Annex II to form companies and establish, in their respective territories, in accordance with any of the types listed in Annex II of Directive (EU) 2017/1132 for their respective territories. Article 17b Corporate control and management requirements 1.Member States shall ensure that providers of services listed in Annex II formed as a legal person and established in their territory are not subject to any of the following requirements: a) more than a simple majority stake giving corporate control must be held by natural persons subject to professional qualification requirements or by legal persons subject to other requirements specific to the service activities concerned and related to professional qualifications; or b) more than a simple majority of the members in each of its management bodies and supervisory bodies are made subject to professional qualification requirements. Member States shall ensure that no other requirements specific to the service activities concerned are imposed on holders of a stake or members of management or supervisory bodies in a provider of services listed in Annex II, with the exception of authorisation or notification schemes meant to control the requirements introduced in accordance with the preceding subparagraph. 2.Member States may, within the simple majority stake giving corporate control referred to in point (a) of paragraph 1, require that the registered corporate purpose of a legal person holding a corporate stake in a provider established in their territory for the provision of services listed in Annex II includes the provision of the services in question. 3.Member States shall ensure that no requirements specific to the service activities concerned other than the requirements referred to in paragraph 2 are imposed regarding legal persons holders of a stake in a provider of services listed in Annex II. However, requirements may be imposed on providers of services listed in Annex II regarding the use of a particular corporate designation in case the service activities in question may be provided by legal persons not subject to such requirements. Article 17c Multidisciplinary activities 1. Member States shall ensure that architectural, engineering and construction services listed in Annex II may be exercised by a legal person jointly or in partnership. This shall apply without prejudice to requirements for the prevention of conflicts of interests in the context of and with consideration for a certain service provision in particular. 2.Notwithstanding paragraph 1, Member States may, in accordance with Article 25 of Directive 2006/123/EC, ban the joint exercise of architectural, engineering and construction services by providers of architectural or engineering services making use of a particular corporate designation in case the provision of the service activities in question, without exception, is admissible to providers not subject to requirements the compliance of which allows for the use of that same designation
2017/12/01
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 234 #

2016/0402(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Annex I – title
Services to which Chapters II and III of this Directive appliesy
2017/12/04
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 257 #

2016/0402(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Annex I – Section N – Division 82 – Group 82.4 (new)
Group 82.4. Registration of a branch, agency, office
2017/12/04
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 258 #

2016/0402(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Annex I – Section N – Division 82 – Group 82.5 (new)
82.5 VAT registration
2017/12/04
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 259 #

2016/0402(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Annex I – Section N – Division 82 – Group 82.6 (new)
82.6 Registration for social security purposes
2017/12/04
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 260 #

2016/0402(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Annex I a (new)
ANNEX Ia Services to which Chapter IIIa of this Directive applies Service activities included in the statistical classification of economic activities in the European Community (NACE Rev.2) under: - Section F Construction Division 41 Construction of buildings Group 41.1 Development of building projects Group 41.2 Construction of residential and non-residential buildings Division 42 Civil engineering Group 42.1 Construction of roads and railways Group 42.2 Construction of utility projects Group 42.9 Construction of other civil engineering projects Division 43 Specialised construction activities, with the exclusion of installation, servicing, maintenance, repair, checking for leaks or decommissioning of equipment that contains fluorinated greenhouse gases or whose functioning relies upon those gases for which certification or attestation is required under Articles 3(4) and 10 of Regulation (EU) 517/2014, by natural persons holding a certificate or a training attestation in accordance with Article 10 of that Regulation or by undertakings that hold the relevant certificates or attestations in accordance with that same Article 10 or undertakings that employ persons holding a certificate or a training attestation in accordance with that same Article 10 Group 43.1 Demolition and site preparation Group 43.2 Electrical, plumbing and other construction installation activities Group 43.3 Building completion and finishing Group 43.9 Other specialised construction activities - Section M Professional, scientific and technical activities Division 69 Legal and accounting activities Group 69.2 Accounting, bookkeeping and auditing activities apart from statutory auditing as defined in paragraph 1 of Directive 2006/43/EC. Tax consultancy activities are also excluded from Annex II. Tax consultancy activities include the preparation of personal and business income tax returns, advisory activities and representation on behalf of clients before tax authorities and other tax consultancy services. Division 71 Architectural and engineering activities; technical testing and analysis Group 71.1 Architectural and engineering activities and related technical consultancy Architectural activities primarily consisting of planning, designing and overseeing the construction of buildings and other physical structures. A service performed by a natural person making use of evidence of formal qualifications listed in part 7 of Annex V of Directive 2005/36/EC shall be considered an architectural service; Engineering activities and related technical consultancy primarily consisting of: – planning, designing and overseeing the construction of buildings and other physical structures; – planning, designing, overseeing and analysing the structure of buildings and other physical structures with consideration for its strength, stiffness, and stability;– designing, analysing and maintaining mechanical systems by applying principles of engineering, physics and materials science; – dealing with electricity, electronics and electromagnetism by applying principles of engineering and physics.
2017/12/04
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 148 #

2016/0362(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 19
Directive 2014/59/EU
Article 29a – paragraph 2
2. The suspension referred to in paragraph 1 shall not exceed the minimum period of time that the competent authority considers necessary to carry out the assessment referred to in point (a) of Article 27(1) or to make the determination referred to in point (a) of Article 32(1) and shall in any event not exceed 52 working days.
2018/01/29
Committee: ECON
Amendment 184 #

2016/0362(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 22 a (new)
Directive 2014/59/EU
Article 44 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point g a (new)
22 a. In Article 44(2), the following point (ga) is added: “(ga) liabilities to institutions or entities referred to in point (b), (c) or (d) of Article 1(1) that are part of the same resolution group without being themselves resolution entity, regardless of their maturities except where these liabilities rank below ordinary unsecured liabilities under the relevant national law setting the hierarchy of claims applicable on the date of transposition of this Directive. Where the previous subparagraph applies, the resolution authority of the relevant subsidiary that is not a resolution entity shall assess whether the amount of instruments complying with Article 45g (3) is sufficient to support the implementation of the preferred resolution strategy.
2018/01/29
Committee: ECON
Amendment 250 #

2016/0362(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 23
Directive 2014/59/EU
Article 45c – paragraph 1 – point e
(e) the extent to which the Deposit Guarantee Scheme could contribute to the financing of resolution in accordance with Article 109;deleted
2018/01/31
Committee: ECON
Amendment 351 #

2016/0362(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 23
Directive 2014/59/EU
Article 45c – paragraph 7 – subparagraph 2
The resolution authority may reduce the requirement referred to in Article 45(1) to take account of the amount which a deposit guarantee scheme is expected to contribute to the financing of the preferred resolution strategy in accordance with Article 109 of Directive 2014/59/EU.deleted
2018/01/31
Committee: ECON
Amendment 353 #

2016/0362(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 23
Directive 2014/59/EU
Article 45c – paragraph 7 – subparagraph 3
The size of any such reduction shall be based on a credible assessment of the potential contribution from the deposit guarantee scheme, and shall at least: (a) the potential losses which the deposit guarantee scheme would have had to bear, had the institution been wound up under normal insolvency proceedings, taking into account the priority ranking of the deposit guarantee scheme pursuant to Article 108 of Directive 2014/59/EU; (b) be less than the limit on deposit guarantee scheme contributions set out in the second subparagraph of Article 109(5) of Directive 2014/59/EU; (c) exhausting the available financial means of the deposit guarantee scheme due to contributing to multiple bank failures or resolutions; and (d) be consistent with any otdeleted be less than a prudent estimate of take account of the overall risk of Ther relevant provisions in national law and the duties and responsibilities of the authority responsible for the deposit guarantee scheme. (e) after consulting the authority responsible for the deposit guarantee scheme, document its approach as regards the assessment of the overall risk of exhausting the available financial means of the deposit guarantee scheme and apply reductions in accordance with subparagraph 1, provided that that risk is not excessive.solution authority shall,
2018/01/31
Committee: ECON
Amendment 419 #

2016/0362(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 23
Directive 2014/59/EU
Article 45g – paragraph 2
2. The requirement referred to in Article 45(1)of entities referred to in the first paragraph shall be subject to the following conditions: (a) the consolidated requirement referred to in Article 45f; (b) applied to the resolution group's subsidiaries shall be covered by and not exceed the consolidated requirement referred to in Article 45f unless this is only due to the effects of the consolidation at the level of the resolution group in accordance with Article 45f(1). (c) the contribution of the subsidiary to the consolidated requirement referred to in Article 45f(1). (d) provided in paragraph 3.deleted the resolution entity complies with the sum of all requirements to be the requirement shall not exceed it shall fulfil the eligibility criteria
2018/01/31
Committee: ECON
Amendment 442 #

2016/0362(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 23
Directive 2014/59/EU
Article 45g – paragraph 4
4. Subject to the agreement of the resolution authorities of the subsidiary and the resolution entity, the requirement may be met with a guarantee of the resolution entity granted to its subsidiary, which fulfils the following conditions: (a) least the equivalent amount as the amount of the requirement for which it substitutes; (b) the subsidiary is unable to pay its debts or other liabilities as they fall due or a determination has been made in accordance with Article 59(3) in respect of the subsidiary, whichever is the earliest; (c) through a financial collateral arrangement as defined in point (a) of Article 2(1) of Directive 2002/47/EC for at least 50 per cent of its amount; (d) collateral arrangement are governed by the laws of the Member State where the subsidiary is established unless specified otherwise by the resolution authority of the subsidiary; (e) guarantee fulfils the requirements of Article 197 of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013, which, following appropriately conservative haircuts, is sufficient to fully cover the amount guaranteed; (f) the collateral backing the guarantee is unencumbered and in particular is not used as collateral to back any other guarantee; (g) the collateral has an effective maturity that fulfils the same maturity condition as that for referred to in Article 72c(1) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 , and (h) operational barriers to the transfer of the collateral from the resolution entity to the relevant subsidiary, including when resolution action is taken in respect of the resolution entity.deleted the guarantee is provided for at the guarantee is triggered when the guarantee is collateralised the guarantee and financial the collateral backing the there are no legal, regulatory or
2018/01/31
Committee: ECON
Amendment 485 #

2016/0362(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 23
Directive 2014/59/EU
Article 45h – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 4
The matter shall not be referred to EBA after the end of the four-month period or after a joint decision has been reached. The group level resolution authority shall not refer the matter to EBA for binding mediation where the level set by the resolution authority of the subsidiary is within two percentage points of the consolidated level set under paragraph 4 of this Article under both measures set out in Article 45(2).
2018/01/31
Committee: ECON
Amendment 557 #

2016/0362(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 26
Directive 2014/59/EU
Article 63 – paragraph 1a
1a. The period of the suspension pursuant to paragraph 1(n) shall not exceed the minimum period of time that the resolution authority considers necessary for the effective application of one or more resolution tools or for the purposes of the valuation pursuant to Article 36 and in any event shall not exceed 52 working days.
2018/02/01
Committee: ECON
Amendment 65 #

2016/0361(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 5
Regulation (EU) No 806/2014
Article 12 d – paragraph 1 – point e
(e) the extent to which the Deposit Guarantee Scheme could contribute to the financing of resolution in accordance with Article 79;deleted
2018/02/01
Committee: ECON
Amendment 105 #

2016/0361(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 5
Regulation (EU) No 806/2014
Article 12 d – paragraph 8
8. The Board may reduce the requirement referred to in Article 12a(1) to take account of the amount which a deposit guarantee scheme is expected to contribute to the financing of the preferred resolution strategy in accordance with Article 109 of Directive 2014/59/EU. The size of any such reduction shall be based on a credible assessment of the potential contribution from the deposit guarantee scheme, and shall at least: (a) the potential losses which the deposit guarantee scheme would have had to bear, had the institution been wound up under normal insolvency proceedings, taking into account the priority ranking of the deposit guarantee scheme pursuant to Article 108 of Directive 2014/59/EU; (b) be less than the limit on deposit guarantee scheme contributions set out in the second subparagraph of Article 109(5) of Directive 2014/59/EU; (c) exhausting the available financial means of the deposit guarantee scheme due to contributing to multiple bank failures or resolutions; and (d) relevant provisions in national law and the duties and responsibilities of the authority responsible for the deposit guarantee scheme. The Board shall, after consulting the authority responsible for the deposit guarantee scheme, document its approach as regards the assessment of the overall risk of exhausting the available financial means of the deposit guarantee scheme and apply reductions in accordance with subparagraph 1, provided that that risk is not excessive.deleted be less than a prudent estimate of take account of the overall risk of be consistent with any other
2018/02/01
Committee: ECON
Amendment 141 #

2016/0361(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 5
Regulation (EU) No 806/2014
Article 12 h – paragraph 2
2. The requirement referred to in Article 12a(1) of entities referred to in the first paragraph shall be subject to the following conditions: (a) the consolidated requirement referred to in Article 12g; (b) applied to the resolution group's subsidiaries shall be covered by and not exceed the consolidated requirement referred to in Article 12g unless this is only due to the effects of the consolidation at the level of the resolution group in accordance with Article 12g(1); (c) it shall fulfil the eligibility criteria provided in paragraph 3; (d) of the subsidiary to the consolidated requirement referred to in 12g(1).deleted the resolution entity complies with the sum of all requirements to be it shall not exceed the contribution
2018/02/01
Committee: ECON
Amendment 146 #

2016/0361(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 5
Regulation (EU) No 806/2014
Article 12h – paragraph 4
4. Subject to the agreement of the Board, the requirement referred to in Article 12a(1) may be met with a guarantee of the resolution entity granted to its subsidiary, which fulfils the following conditions: (a) least the equivalent amount as the amount of the requirement for which it substitutes; (b) the subsidiary is unable to pay its debts or other liabilities as they fall due or a determination has been made in accordance with Article 21(3) in respect of the subsidiary, whichever is the earliest; (c) through a financial collateral arrangement as defined in point (a) of Article 2(1) of Directive 2002/47/EC for at least 50 per cent of its amount; (d) collateral arrangement are governed by the laws of the Member State where the subsidiary is established unless otherwise specified by the Board; (e) guarantee fulfils the requirements of Article 197 of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013, which, following appropriately conservative haircuts, is sufficient to fully cover the amount guaranteed; (f) guarantee is unencumbered and in particular is not used asdeleted the guarantee is provided for at the guarantee is triggered when the guarantee is collateralised the guarantee and financial the collateral to back any other guarantee; (g) maturity that fulfils the same maturity condition as that referred to in Article 72c(1) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013; and (h) operational barriers to the transfer of the collateral from the resolution entity toing the the collateral backing the the collateral has an effective the relevant subsidiary, including when resolution action is taken in respect of the resolution entity. are no legal, regulatory or
2018/02/01
Committee: ECON
Amendment 177 #

2016/0361(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 9 a (new)
Regulation (EU) No 806/2014
Article 27 – paragraph 3 – point g a (new)
9a. in Article 27(3), the following point is added: (ga) liabilities to institutions or relevant entities that are part of the same resolution group without being themselves resolution entity, regardless of their maturities except where these liabilities rank below ordinary unsecured liabilities under the relevant national law setting the hierarchy of claims applicable on the date of entry into force of this Regulation. Where the previous subparagraph applies, the Board shall assess whether the amount of instruments complying with Article 45g(3) is sufficient to support the implementation of the preferred resolution strategy.
2018/02/01
Committee: ECON
Amendment 220 #

2016/0360A(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 56
(56) In light of the strengthened group supervision resulting from the reinforcement of the prudential regulatory framework and the establishment of the Banking Union, it is desirable that institutions take ever more advantage of the benefits of the single market, including for ensuring an efficient management of capital and liquidity resources throughout the group. Therefore the possibility to waive the application of requirements on an individual level for subsidiaries or parents should be available to cross-border groups, provided there are adequate safeguards to ensure that sufficient capital and liquidity will be at the disposal of entities subject to the waiver. Where all the safeguards are met, it will be for the competent authority to decide whether to grant such waivers. Competent authorities' decisions should be duly justified.deleted
2018/02/02
Committee: ECON
Amendment 261 #

2016/0360A(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013
Article 7 – paragraphs 1 and 2
(5) In Article 7, paragraphs 1 and 2 are replaced by the following: [...]deleted
2018/02/02
Committee: ECON
Amendment 275 #

2016/0360A(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 6
(b) the parent institution on a consolidated basis or the subsidiary institution on a sub-consolidated basis monitors and has oversight at all times over the liquidity positions, and the funding positions where the NSFR set out in Title IV of Part Six is waived, of all institutions within the liquiditygroup or sub- group, that are subject to the waiver in accordance with this paragraph and ensures a sufficient level of liquidity, and of stable funding where the NSFR set out in Title IV of Part Six is waived, for all of those institutions;
2018/02/02
Committee: ECON
Amendment 286 #

2016/0360A(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 6
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013
Article 8 – paragraph 2 – point c
(c) the distribution of amounts, location and ownership of the required liquid assets to be held within the single liquidity sub-group where the LCR as defined in Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/61 is waived and the distribution of amounts and location of available stable funding within the single liquidity sub- group where the NSFR set out in Title IV of Part Six of this Regulation is waived;
2018/02/02
Committee: ECON
Amendment 287 #

2016/0360A(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 6
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013
Article 8 – paragraph 2 – point d
(d) the determination of minimum amounts of liquid assets to be held by institutions for which the application of Part Six will bethe LCR as defined in Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/61 is waived and the determination of minimum amounts of available stable funding to be held by institutions for which the application of the NSFR set out in Title IV of Part Six of this Regulation is waived;
2018/02/02
Committee: ECON
Amendment 745 #

2016/0360A(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 114
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013
Article 428 f – paragraph 2 – point d
(d) covered bonds that meet the eligibility requirements for the treatment set out in Article 129(4) or (5), as appropriate, where the underlying loans are fully matched funded with the covered bonds issued or where there exists non- discretionary extendable maturity triggers on the covered bonds of one year or more until the term of the underlying loans in the event of refinancing failure at the maturity date of the covered bond contractual or legal provisions to manage refinancing risk;
2018/02/05
Committee: ECON
Amendment 524 #

2016/0288(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 92 – paragraph 1
Providers of electronic communications networks or services shall not apply any discriminatory requirements or conditions of access or use to end-users based on the end-user's nationality or, place of residence or temporary location unless such differences are objectively justified.
2017/05/12
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 529 #

2016/0288(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 92 a (new)
Article 92a Intra-Union calls 1. Providers of publicly available number based interpersonal communication services shall not apply tariffs to intra-Union fixed and mobile communications services terminating in another Member State which are higher from tariffs for services terminating in the same Member State, unless it is justified by the difference in mobile termination rates. 2. Where providers of publicly available number based interpersonal communication services apply different tariffs to intra-Union fixed and mobile communications services terminating in another Member State than to services terminating in the same Member State, the surcharge shall not be higher than the difference between mobile termination rate of the Member State where the call is terminating and mobile termination rate of the Member State where call is originating.
2017/05/12
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 696 #

2016/0288(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 102 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1 a (new)
Member States shall make sure that citizens and visitors are adequately informed on their mobile phone about the means for disabled end-users to reach the emergency services, especially when travelling to other countries.
2017/05/12
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 709 #

2016/0288(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 102 – paragraph 6
6. Member States shall ensure that citizens are adequately informed about the existence and use of the single European emergency number ‘112’, in particular through initiatives specifically targeting persons travelling between Member States. The Commission shall support and complement Member States' action.
2017/05/12
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 124 #

2016/0208(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 41
(41) Given the need to urgently implement measures adopted with a view to strengthen the Union's regime set in place for the prevention of money laundering and terrorism financing, and seeing the commitments undertaken by Member States to quickly proceed with the transposition of Directive (EU) 2015/849, this Directive should be transposed by 1 January 201718 months after its adoption. For the same reasons, the amendments to Directive (EU) 2015/849 and Directive 2009/101/EC should also be transposed by 1 January 201718 months after its adoption.
2016/12/19
Committee: ECONLIBE
Amendment 293 #

2016/0208(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 10 – point a
Directive 2015/849/EU
Article 31 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Member States shall ensure that this Article applies to trusts and other types of legal arrangements having a structure or functions similar to trusts, such as, inter alia, fiducie, Treuhand or fideicomiso. Member States, in cooperation with the Commission, shall define the characteristics to describe which legal arrangements have functions and a structure similar to trusts.
2016/12/19
Committee: ECONLIBE
Amendment 427 #

2016/0208(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 23
Directive 2015/849/EU
Article 66 – paragraph 1
Directives 2005/60/EC and 2006/70/EC are repealed with effect from 1 January 201718 months after the adoption of the amendments to the Anti-Money Laundering Directive;
2016/12/19
Committee: ECONLIBE
Amendment 428 #

2016/0208(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 24
Directive 2015/849/EU
Article 67 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive by 1 January 201718 months after its adoption. They shall immediately communicate the text of those measures to the Commission;
2016/12/19
Committee: ECONLIBE
Amendment 464 #

2016/0208(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive by 1 January 2017 at the latestthe latest 18 months after the adoption of the amendments to this Directive. They shall forthwith communicate to the Commission the text of those provisions.
2016/12/19
Committee: ECONLIBE
Amendment 138 #

2016/0152(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10 a (new)
(10a) In case the commercial practice of the trader does not correspond to his or her indication pursuant to Article 8a, Article 6 of Regulation (EC) No 593/2008 and Article 18 of Regulation (EU) 1215/2012 should apply. Moreover, this should be without prejudice to any trader's liability for misleading or unfair practice pursuant to Directive 2005/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council 1a. _______________ 1aDirective 2005/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 May 2005 concerning unfair business-to- consumer commercial practices in the internal market and amending Council Directive 84/450/EEC, Directives 97/7/EC, 98/27/EC and 2002/65/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and Regulation (EC) No 2006/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council (ʻUnfair Commercial Practices Directive’) (OJ L 149, 11.6.2005, p. 22).
2017/02/16
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 220 #

2016/0152(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 25
(25) Directive 2015/2366/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council28 introduced strict security requirements for the initiation and processing of electronic payments, which reduced the risk of fraud for all new and more traditional means of payment, especially online payments. Payment service providers are obliged to apply so-called strong customer authentication, an authentication process that validates the identity of the user of a payment service or of the payment transaction. For remote transactions, such as online payments, the security requirements go even further, requiring a dynamic link to the amount of the transaction and the account of the payee, to further protect the user by minimising the risks in case of mistakes or fraudulent attacks. As a result of theose provisions, the risk of payment fraud in national and cross-border purchases ihas brought to an equal level and should not be used as an argument to refuse or discriminate any commercial transactions within the Union. een significantly reduced. However, in case of direct debits where the trader might not be able to assess a consumer's creditworthiness properly, or it would require entering into a new or modified contract with the payment solution providers, the trader should be allowed to request an advance payment via SEPA credit transfer before dispatching the goods or providing the service. Different treatment is therefore justifiable in situations where there are no other means available to the trader to verify the creditworthiness of the consumer. __________________ 28 Directive (EU) 2015/2366 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 November 2015 on payment services in the internal market, amending Directives 2002/65/EC, 2009/110/EC and 2013/36/EU and Regulation (EU) No 1093/2010, and repealing Directive 2007/64/EC (OJ L 337, 23.12.2015, p. 35– 127).
2017/02/16
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 35 #

2016/0107(COD)

Draft legislative resolution
Citation 6 a (new)
– having regard to the OECD Action Plan on Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS),
2017/03/21
Committee: ECONJURI
Amendment 60 #

2016/0107(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 4 b (new)
(4b) The Union by an unprecedented introduction on public country-by-country reporting has demonstrated that it would become a global leader in the fight against tax avoidance.
2017/03/21
Committee: ECONJURI
Amendment 62 #

2016/0107(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 4 c (new)
(4c) Whereas effective fight against tax evasion, tax avoidance and aggressive tax planning can only be successful with joint action on international level, the Union, while continuing to be a global leader in this struggle, must coordinate its actions with international actors, for instance in the OECD framework. Unilateral actions, even if very ambitious, do not have real chance of being successful, while at the same time they put at risk the competitiveness of European companies and harm the Union’s investment climate.
2017/03/21
Committee: ECONJURI
Amendment 66 #

2016/0107(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 5
(5) Enhanced public scrutiny of corporate income taxes borne by multinational undertakings carrying out activities in the Union is an essential element to further foster corporate responsibility, to contribute to the welfare through taxes, to promote fairer tax competition within the Union through a better informed public debate and to restore public trust in the fairness of the national tax systems. Such public scrutiny can be achieved by means of a report on income tax information, irrespective of where the ultimate parent undertaking of the multinational group is established. This, however, has to be conducted without harming the investment climate in the EU as well as the competitiveness of companies, especially European SMEs and mid-caps.
2017/03/21
Committee: ECONJURI
Amendment 84 #

2016/0107(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 8
(8) The report on income tax information should provide information concerning all the activities of an undertaking or of all the affiliated undertakings of a group controlled by an ultimate parent undertaking. The information should be based onconnected to but not exceed the reporting specifications of BEPS’ Action 13 - which relates to the information exchanged between tax authorities - and should be exclusively limited to what is necessary to enable effective public scrutiny, in order to ensure that disclosure does not give rise to disproportionate risks or disadvantages. The report should also include a brief description of the nature of the activities. Such description might be based on the categorisation provided for in table 2 of the Annex III of Chapter V of the OECD “Transfer Pricing Guidelines on Documentation”. The report should include an overall narrative providing explanations in case of material discrepancies at group level between the amounts of taxes accrued and the amounts of taxes paid, taking into account corresponding amounts concerning previous financial years.
2017/03/21
Committee: ECONJURI
Amendment 95 #

2016/0107(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 9
(9) In order to ensure a level of detail that enables citizens to better assess the contribution of multinational undertakings to welfare in each Member State, without harming the companies' competitiveness, the information should be broken down by Member State. Moreover, information concerning the operations of multinational enterprises should also be shown with a high level of detail as regards certain tax jurisdictions which pose particular challenges. For all other third country operations, the information should be given in an aggregate number.
2017/03/21
Committee: ECONJURI
Amendment 101 #

2016/0107(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 11
(11) To ensure that cases of non- compliance are disclosed to the public, statutory auditor(s) or audit firm(s) should checkstate whether the report on income tax information has been submitted and presented in accordance with the requirements of this Directive and made accessible on the relevant undertaking’s website or on the website of an affiliated undertaking within the time limits provided for in this Directive.
2017/03/21
Committee: ECONJURI
Amendment 105 #

2016/0107(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 13
(13) In order to determine certain tax jurisdictions for which a high level of detail should be shown, the power to adopt acts in accordance with Article 290 TFEU should be delegated to the Commission in respect of drawing upcreating a common Union list of these tax jurisdictions. This list should be drawn up on the basis of certain criteria, identified on the basis of Annex 1 of the Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and Council on an External Strategy for Effective Taxation (COM(2016) 24 final). It is of particular importance that the Commission carry out appropriate consultations during its preparatory work, including at expert level, and that those consultations be conducted in accordance with the principles laid down in the Interinstitutional Agreement on Better Law-Making as approved by the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission and pending formal signature. In particular, to ensure equal participation in the preparation of delegated acts, the European Parliament and the Council receive all documents at the same time as Member States' experts, and their experts systematically have access to meetings of Commission expert groups dealing with the preparation of delegated acts. That list should later be updated on a regular basis, while basing it on criteria that have been previously approved.
2017/03/21
Committee: ECONJURI
Amendment 118 #

2016/0107(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Directive 2013/34/EU
Chapter 10 a – Article 48 b – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Member States shall require ultimate parent undertakings governed by their national laws and havingwhich on their balance sheet in a financial year have or exceed a consolidated net turnover exceedingof EUR 750 000 000 as well as undertakings governed by their national laws that are not affiliated undertakings and having a net turnover exceeding EUR 750 000 000 to draw up and, publish and make accessible for free a report on income tax information on an annual basis.
2017/03/21
Committee: ECONJURI
Amendment 127 #

2016/0107(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Directive 2013/34/EU
Chapter 10 a – Article 48 b – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
The report on income tax information shall be made accessible to the public for free in a common template on the website of the undertaking on the date of its publication in at least one of the official languages of the European Union.
2017/03/21
Committee: ECONJURI
Amendment 128 #

2016/0107(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Directive 2013/34/EU
Chapter 10 a – Article 48 b – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 a (new)
Member States shall not apply the rules set out in this paragraph to non-affiliated undertakings, ultimate parent undertakings and their affiliated undertakings where such undertakings operate only within the territory of one single Member State and in no other tax jurisdiction.
2017/03/21
Committee: ECONJURI
Amendment 137 #

2016/0107(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Directive 2013/34/EU
Chapter 10 a – Article 48 b – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
Member States shall require the medium- sized and large subsidiary undertakings referred to in Article 3(3) and (4) which are governed by their national laws and controlled by an ultimate parent undertaking which haon their balance sheet in a financial year has or exceeds a consolidated net turnover exceedingof EUR 750 000 000 and which is not governed by the law of a Member State, to publish theand make accessible for free a report on income tax information of that ultimate parent undertaking on an annual basis. to the extent that the information is available to the subsidiary undertaking. If the information is not available, the subsidiary shall request it from the parent company. If the requested information is not provided to the subsidiary undertaking, it shall prove to the Member State that it has taken steps to receive the information and that it was refused the information. In the event that the information is not provided, the report shall contain an explanation as to why this is the case. In the event that the subsidiary undertaking exceeds the threshold set out in paragraph 1, it shall publish its own report on income tax information.
2017/03/21
Committee: ECONJURI
Amendment 144 #

2016/0107(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Directive 2013/34/EU
Chapter 10 a – Article 48 b – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2
The report on income tax information shall be made accessible to the public for free and in a common template on the date of its publication on the website of the subsidiary undertaking or on the website of an affiliated undertaking in at least one of the official languages of the European Union.
2017/03/21
Committee: ECONJURI
Amendment 149 #

2016/0107(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Directive 2013/34/EU
Chapter 10 a – Article 48 b – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1
Member States shall require branches which are opened in their territories by an undertaking which is not governed by the law of a Member State to publish and make accessible for free on an annual basis the report on income tax information of the ultimate parent undertaking referred to in point (a) of this paragraph 5 of this Article.
2017/03/21
Committee: ECONJURI
Amendment 151 #

2016/0107(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Directive 2013/34/EU
Chapter 10 a – Article 48 b – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2
The report on income tax information shall be made accessible to the public for free and in a common template on the date of its publication on the website of the branch or on the website of an affiliated undertaking in at least one of the official languages of the European Union.
2017/03/21
Committee: ECONJURI
Amendment 158 #

2016/0107(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Directive 2013/34/EU
Chapter 10 a – Article 48 b – paragraph 5 – point a
(a) the undertaking which opened the branch is either an affiliated undertaking of a group which is controlled by an ultimate parent undertaking not governed by the law of a Member State and which on its balance sheets has a consolidated net turnover exceeding EUR 750 000 000 in a financial year or an undertaking that is not an affiliated and which has a net turnover exceeding EUR 750 000 000 in a financial year;
2017/03/21
Committee: ECONJURI
Amendment 166 #

2016/0107(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Directive 2013/34/EU
Chapter 10 a – Article 48 c – paragraph 2 – introductory part
2. The information referred to in paragraph 1 shall be presented in a common EU template and shall comprise the following:
2017/03/21
Committee: ECONJURI
Amendment 197 #

2016/0107(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Directive 2013/34/EU
Chapter 10 a – Article 48 c – paragraph 2 – point g
(g) the amount of accumulated earnings.deleted
2017/03/21
Committee: ECONJURI
Amendment 210 #

2016/0107(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2
The report shall present the information referred to in paragraph 2 separately for each Member State. WhereEven if a Member State comprises several tax jurisdictions, the information shall be combinedpresented jointly on at Member State level.
2017/03/21
Committee: ECONJURI
Amendment 218 #

2016/0107(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Directive 2013/34/EU
Chapter 10 a – Article 48 c – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 3
The report shall present the information referred to in paragraph 2 on an aggregated basis for each other tax jurisdictions throughout the world.
2017/03/21
Committee: ECONJURI
Amendment 235 #

2016/0107(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Directive 2013/34/EU
Chapter 10 a – Article 48 c – paragraph 5
5. The report on income tax information shall be published in a common EU template and made accessible for free on the website in at least one of the official languages of the Union.
2017/03/21
Committee: ECONJURI
Amendment 91 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Title 1
Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL laying down rules on the making available on the market of CE marked fertilising productszers and Products Improving Nutrition Efficiency (PINE) and amending Regulations (EC) No 1069/2009 and (EC) No 1107/2009 (Text with EEA relevance)
2017/04/06
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 100 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8 a (new)
(8a) Securing reliable and unhindered access to raw materials is crucial to the Union economy and essential to maintaining and improving quality of life, industry and employment. The Commission has created a list of Critical Raw Materials (CRMs) in order to identify raw materials with a high supply- risk and a high economic importance to the Union and secure their reliable and unhindered access. In 2014, The Commission added phosphate rock to this list. This Regulation should not introduce any measures unduly restricting the use, in EC marked fertilising products, of raw materials on which the import- dependency of the Union or its Member State exceeds 70%, or raw materials classified - due to import dependency and risk of supply disruptions - as CRMs under the EU Raw Materials Initiative (COM(2008) 699 final).
2017/04/06
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 103 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8 a (new)
(8a) In order to facilitate the compliance of the phosphate fertilising products with the requirements of this Regulation and to boost innovation, it is necessary to provide sufficient funding to the relevant technologies, particularly to decadmiation, by means of the financial resources available under Horizon 2020 and other financial instruments. The Commission should annually inform the Council and the European Parliament on how much EU funding has been provided for decadmiation.
2017/04/06
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 105 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8 b (new)
(8b) The Union production of fertilisers depends on manufacturers' ability to procure raw materials that include nutrients. Contaminant limits set out in this Regulation should take due account of the need to import such raw materials from third countries in sufficient quantities. While maintaining high standards for quality, health and environment, due care should be taken that contaminant limits set out in this Regulation do not unduly restrict the manufacturers' ability to source and use such raw materials in the production of CE marked fertilising products; do not, provide, by law or in fact, raw material sourcing preferences to individual companies; do not unduly restrict export of raw materials from third countries; and comply with the Union's bilateral and multilateral international trade obligations, are based on objective and accurate scientific data and do not create unnecessary obstacles to trade.
2017/04/06
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 106 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8 c (new)
(8c) Contaminant limits set out by this Regulation should not disqualify or give preference to certain sources of raw materials. Therefore market and trade effects of such limits should be monitored to ensure stable and affordable access to raw materials, ensuring effective competition and competitiveness of the EU fertilizer industry. The Commission should ensure that foreign suppliers providing both raw materials and finished fertilising products to the Union do not abuse their market position by restricting the Union industry's access to raw materials and rendering its finished fertilizing products uncompetitive.
2017/04/06
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 117 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13
(13) For certain recovered wastes within the meaning of Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council20 of 19 November 2008 on waste and repealing certain Directives, a market demand for their use as fertilising products has been identified. Furthermore, certain requirements are necessary for the waste used as input in the recovery operation and for the treatment processes and techniques, as well as for fertilising products resulting from the recovery operation, in order to ensure that the use of those products does not lead to overall adverse environmental or human health impacts. For CE marked fertilising products, those requirements should be laid down in this Regulation. Therefore, as of the moment of compliance with all the requirements of this Regulation, such products should cease to be regarded as waste within the meaning of Directive 2008/98/EC. _________________ 20 Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on waste and repealing certain Directives (OJ L 312, 22.11.2008, p. 3).
2017/04/06
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 121 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14
(14) Certain substances and mixtures, commonly referred to as agronomic additives, improve the nutrient release pattern of a nutrient in a fertiliser. Substances and mixtures made available on the market with the intention of them being added to CE marked fertilising products for that purpose should fulfil certain efficacy criteria at the responsibility of the manufacturer of those substances or mixtures, and should therefore as such be considered as CE marked fertilising products under this Regulation. Furthermore, CE marked fertilising products containing such substances or mixtures should be subject to certain efficacy and safety criteria. Such substances and mixtures should therefore also be regulated as component materials for CE marked fertilising products.
2017/04/06
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 129 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17 a (new)
(17a) Fertilising products which are CE marked in accordance with this Regulation should be afforded equal treatment and not unduly discriminated against by rules laid down in other Union legislation. No preferences should be granted to any type of CE marked fertilising products and no derogations should be granted to any fertilising products from generally-applicable EU law, in particular from Directive 91/676/EEC. No incentives should be granted to any type of fertilizing products, to the exclusion of other types, as they are contrary to the concept of parity and equal treatment under EU law.
2017/04/06
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 136 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 25
(25) When placing a CE marked fertilising product on the market, the importer should indicate on the packaging of the fertilising product his or her name, registered trade name or registered trade mark and the postal address at which he or she can be contacted, as well as the foreign manufacturer and the country of origin of the product in order to enable market surveillance.
2017/04/06
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 143 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 47
(47) CE-marked fertilising products should be placed on the market only if they are sufficiently effectiir agronomic efficacy has been proven and do not present unacceptable risks to human, animal or plant health, to safety or to the environment when properly stored and used for their intended purpose, and under conditions of use which can be reasonably foreseen, that is when such use could result from lawful and readily predictable human behaviour. Therefore, requirements for safety and quality, as well as appropriate control mechanisms, should be established. Furthermore, the intended use of CE marked fertilising products should not lead to food or feed becoming unsafe.
2017/04/06
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 151 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 55 a (new)
(55a) When adopting delegated acts, the Commission should ensure that all fertilizer products will be treated equally with no preference to any types of fertilizers.
2017/04/06
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 165 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 1
(1) ‘f"Fertilising product’zer" means a substance, or a mixture, micro-organism or any other material, applied or intended to be applied, either on its own or mixed with another material, on plants or their rhizosphere for the purpose of providing plants with nutrient or improving their nutrition efficiency; of substances intended to provide nutrients to the plants.
2017/04/06
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 171 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 2 a (new)
(2a) "Product Improving Nutrition Efficiency (PINE)" means a substance or a mixture of substances, micro-organism or any other material to be applied on plants or their rhizosphere for the purpose of improving their nutrition efficiency.
2017/04/06
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 172 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 3
(3) 'substance' means a substance within the meaning of Article 3(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006; chemical element and its compounds in the natural state or obtained by any manufacturing process, including any additive necessary to preserve its stability and any impurity deriving from the process used, but excluding any solvent which may be separated without affecting the stability of the substance or changing its composition.
2017/04/06
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 179 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2
2. For any aspects not covered by Annex I or II, CE marked fertilising products shall meet the requirement that their use, as specified in the use instructions, does not lead to food or feed of plant origin becoming unsafe within the meaning of Articles 14 and 15 of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002, respectively.deleted
2017/04/06
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 190 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1
Manufacturers shall ensure that procedures are in place for CE marked fertilising products that are part of a series production to remain in conformity with this Regulation. Changes in production method or characteristics of those fertilising products and changes in the harmonised standards, common specifications referred to in Article 13 or other technical specifications by reference to which conformity of a CE marked fertilising product is declared shall be adequately taken into account.
2017/04/06
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 207 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 10 – subparagraph 2
The report shall be submitted at least five days in advance of placing those products on the market. List of competent authorities of Member States shall be provided in Annex Va.
2017/04/06
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 213 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 2
2. Before placing a CE marked fertilising product on the market importers shall ensure that the appropriate conformity assessment procedure referred to in Article 14 has been carried out by the manufacturer. They shall ensure that the manufacturer has drawn up the technical documentation, that the CE marked fertilising product is accompanied by the EU declaration of conformity and the required documents, and that the manufacturer has complied with the requirements set out in Article 6(5) and (6). Where an importer considers or has reason to believe that a CE marked fertilising product is not in conformity with the applicable requirements set out in Annex I, Annex II or Annex IIIof this Regulation, he or she shall not place the fertilising product on the market until it has been brought into conformity. Furthermore, where the CE marked fertilising product presents an unacceptable risk to human, animal or plant health, to safety or to the environment, the importer shall inform the manufacturer and the market surveillance authorities to that effect.
2017/04/06
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 218 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 3
3. Importers shall indicate their name, registered trade name or registered trade mark, the foreign manufacturer and the country of origin and the postal address at which they can be contacted on the packaging of the CE marked fertilising product or, where the CE marked fertilising product is supplied without packaging, in a document accompanying the fertilising product. The contact details shall be in a language easily understood by end-users and market surveillance authorities.
2017/04/06
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 223 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 4
4. Importers shall ensure that the CE marked fertilising product is labelled in accordance with Annex III or, where the CE marked fertilising product is supplied without packaging, that the required information is provided in a documents accompanying the CE fertilising product. The information required under Annex III shall be in a language which can be easily understood by end- users, as determined by the Member State concerned.
2017/04/06
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 236 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
Before making a CE marked fertilising product available on the market distributors shall verify that it is accompanied by the EU declaration of conformity and by the required documents, that it is labelled in accordance with Annex III in a language which can be easily understood by end- users in the Member State in which the CE marked fertilising product is to be made available on the market, and that the manufacturer and the importer have complied with the requirements set out in Article 6(5) and (6) and Article 8(3) respectively. Where the CE marked fertilising product is supplied without packaging, market distributors shall verify that the required information is provided in a documents accompanying the CE marked fertilising product. That information shall also be in a language which can be easily understood by end- users in the Member State in which the CE marked fertilising product is to be made available on the market.
2017/04/06
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 240 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Where a distributor considers or has reason to believe that a CE marked fertilising product is not in conformity with the applicable requirements set out in Annex I, Annex II or Annex IIIof this Regulation, he or she shall not make the fertilising product available on the market until it has been brought into conformity. Furthermore, where the CE marked fertilising product presents an unacceptable risk to human, animal or plant health, to safety or to the environment, the distributor shall inform the manufacturer or the importer to that effect as well as the market surveillance authorities.
2017/04/06
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 249 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 1
1. The CE marking shall be affixed visibly, legibly and indelibly to the paccompanying documents andkaging of the CE marked fertilising product or, where the CE marked fertilising product is supplied in a packaged form, to the packagingwithout packaging, to the documents accompanying the CE marked fertilising product.
2017/04/06
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 255 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 18 – paragraph 1 a (new)
In line with circular economy, certain industry by-products or co-products from specific industrial processes are already used by manufacturers as components of CE marked fertilizing products. Requirements related to such component material categories should be laid down in Annex II. Such products should cease to be regarded as waste within the meaning of Directive 2008/98/EC and treated as component material categories. For a transitional period of five years, by- products currently used as components in production of CE-marked fertilizing products, such as ammonium sulfate, sulfuric acid, iron sulfate, ammonia, magnesium sulfate, magnesium nitrate and anti-caking agents should be allowed to be used, until the European Commission can propose the specific conditions for their continued use.
2017/04/06
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 258 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 18 – paragraph 1
A CE marked fertilising productmaterial that has undergone a recovery operation and complies with the requirements laid down in this Regulation shall be considered to complyand has demonstrated agronomic efficacy shall be considered to be a component material of a CE marked fertilising product that complies with the conditions laid down in Article 6(1) of Directive 2008/98/EC and shall, therefore, be considered asto havinge ceased to bebeing waste.
2017/04/06
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 262 #

2016/0084(COD)

International trade aspects of trade in fertilizers and raw materials
2017/04/06
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 268 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 37 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Where the market surveillance authorities of one Member State have sufficient reason to believe that a CE marked fertilising product presents an unacceptable risk to human, animal or plant life or health, to safety or to the environment, they shall carry out an evaluation in relation to the fertilising product concerned covering the requirements laid down in this Regulation. The relevant economic operators shall cooperate as necessary with the market surveillance authorities for that purpose.
2017/04/06
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 273 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 42 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. The Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 43 to amend Annexes III to IV for the purposes of adapting them to technical progress and facilitating internal market access and free movement for CE marked fertilising products
2017/03/16
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 277 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 40 a (new)
Article 40 a Cadmium limit derogations By way of derogation from Article 4(1), a fertilising product that does not meet the requirements of PFC 1(C)(I)2(a)(2) may be CE- marked if it meets the conditions set out in Articles 40b to 40d.
2017/04/06
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 278 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 40 b (new)
Article 40 b Derogation for average cadmium limit A fertilising product that does not meet the requirements of PFC 1(C)(I)2(a)(2) may be CE- marked in case it: (a) meets the remaining requirements set out in Annex I for PFC 1(C)(I); (b) meets the requirements set out in Annex II for the relevant component material category or categories; (c) is labelled in accordance with the labelling requirements set out in Annex III; and (d) meets the requirements of Annex Va.
2017/04/06
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 279 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 40 c (new)
Article 40 c Derogation for compliance plan 1. Under the conditions set out in this article, a Union producer of fertilizing products ("applicant") may request a Member State to grant a temporary derogation, for a period of up to 10 years, from the requirements of Article 4(1), if the applicant is unable to meet the requirements of PFC 1(C)(I)2(a)(2) because of difficulties with procuring phosphate rock of sufficient quality, due to dependency on importation of phosphate rock. 2. Import dependency is deemed to exist when the applicant sources more than 70% of phosphate rock from outside of the Union or when phosphate rock is classified as a "critical raw material" under the Raw Material Initiative. 3. The request for a temporary derogation shall include: (a) information on the location, number, size and cadmium content of phosphate rock deposits that the applicant owns, controls, or has exclusive access to by way of exclusive mining, exploration licences, exclusive purchase relationship or by any other means; (b) information on the applicant's sourcing of phosphate rock for the last five years, identifying specific deposits from which phosphate rock has been purchased, including the average cadmium content in phosphate rock purchased from such deposits; (c) information on phosphate rock import dependency for the last 5 years, which shall compare the annual production needs of the applicant with the applicant's purchases of phosphate rock from outside of the Union and its explanation for its inability to source phosphate rock from within the Union; (d) the applicant's 10 year-plan to comply with the requirements of Article 4(1) (" Compliance Plan"), covering planned: (i) diversification of the sourcing of phosphate rock to countries and deposits with low cadmium; (ii) investment in recovery and reuse of phosphorus, which would decrease reliance on imported phosphate rock, and contribute to the circular economy of the Union; and (iii) investment in decadmiation technologies so that they can be introduced in the applicants regular production process. 4. The applicant shall identify all information in the request to be treated as confidential and shall also provide a public summary thereof. 5. The request shall be filed with the competent authority of a Member State where the producer is established. The Member State shall notify the Commission of the receipt of the request, transmitting the public summary of the request. The Commission shall then notify and transfer the request and the public summary to the Council. 6. The Member State shall issue the temporary derogation if it concludes that: (a) the applicant is dependent on imports of phosphate rock within the meaning of paragraph 2; (b) the applicant is not able to comply with the requirement of Article 4(1), due to the cadmium content of its phosphate rock deposits specified in paragraph 3(a), or – in view of import dependency – due to the structure of its historical phosphate rock purchases as specified in paragraph 3(b); and (c) the applicant submitted a credible plan that is likely to allow the applicant, at the expiry of the temporary exemption, to comply with the requirements specified in Article 4(1), upon its completion. 7. If the Member State decides to approve the request and issue the temporary derogation it shall communicate its decision to the Commission and the Council. 8. Once the Member State issues the temporary derogation, a fertilizing product, produced by the applicant and placed on the market during its validity , shall be deemed to be in full compliance with PFC 1(C)(I)2(a)(2) for the purposes of Article 4(1) and may be CE-marked. 9. The applicant whose request for a temporary derogation has been approved shall, within 30 days from each anniversary of the date of the approval, submit to the competent authority an annual report, specifying: (a) the location, number, size and cadmium content of phosphate rock deposits that the applicant owned, controlled, or otherwise had exclusive access to by way of exclusive mining, exploration licences, exclusive purchase relationship or by any other means, in the Union and outside, during the past year; (b) the applicant's sourcing of phosphate rock during the past year, from within the Union and outside, identifying countries and specific deposits from which phosphate rock has been purchased, including the average cadmium content in such deposits; (c) the applicant's import dependency referred to in paragraph 3(c); (d) an update on the applicant's implementation of its Compliance Plan in the past year, including progress on : (i) diversification of sourcing of phosphate rock to countries and deposits with low cadmium that would allow the applicant to meet the requirements of Article 4(1); (ii) reduction of its import dependency; (iii) investment in, and introduction of recovery and reuse of phosphorus in the production of fertilizing products; and (iv) investment in, and introduction of, decadmiation technologies in its regular production process. 10. The applicant shall indicate the information in its annual report to be treated as confidential and shall also provide a public summary thereof. 11. The Member State shall transfer the public summary of the Annual report to the Commission. The Commission shall then transfer the public summary to the Council. 12. The Member State may revoke the approval of the request and shall notify the Commission where the Member State concludes that the review of the applicant's Annual Reports does not show: (a) a steady and persistent decrease of cadmium content in purchased phosphate rock; (b) increasing diversification of sources for phosphate rock purchases towards low cadmium sources; (c) steady progress in research and implementation of phosphorus recovery and reuse technologies, leading towards increased use of recycled phosphorus in production of the fertilizing products; and (d) steady progress in research and implementation of decadmiation technologies, leading towards reduced cadmium content of finished fertilizing products; 13. Upon the expiry of the period for which the temporary exemption has been granted, the requirements of PFC 1(C)(I)2(a)(2) shall begin to apply in the context of Article 4(1), as if the Regulation came into force with respect to the applicant on the date on which the exemption has expired.
2017/04/06
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 280 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 40 d (new)
Article 40 d Derogation for international trade dispute 1. Subject to paragraph 4, if a third country initiates dispute settlement proceedings against the Union under the Understanding on Rules and Procedures Governing the Settlement of Disputes ('DSU'), part of the Marrakesh Agreement establishing the World Trade Organization, or under any international trade agreement, questioning the legality, under international law, of the limit set out in Annex I for PFC 1(C)(I), the application of that limit, in the context of Article 4(1), shall be suspended for the duration of such proceeding. 2. For purposes of paragraph 1, and subject to paragraph 3, the suspension shall begin three months after the third country files a request for any consultation under the agreement concerned and shall continue until a final ruling is issued by the relevant dispute settlement body provided for by the agreement to adjudicate the dispute or, if no such body has been created by the agreement, by the WTO Dispute Settlement Body. Where no mutually acceptable solution is found within the timeframe prescribed by the agreement or, if no such timeframe is prescribed, within 6 months from the beginning of the suspension, the request for consultations must be followed by the launch of arbitration proceedings at the earliest possible date, if the agreement provides for arbitration and if not, recourse must be taken to the dispute settlement proceedings under the WTO. If no recourse is taken at the earliest possible date, to arbitration proceedings or the WTO DSU, respectively, then the suspension referred to in paragraph 1 shall be lifted. For purposes of this paragraph, arbitration proceedings consist of the phase of the proceeding that is normally concluded with a ruling of the relevant dispute settlement body adjudicating the merits of the dispute 3. When proceedings referred to in paragraph 1, are initiated, the Commission may propose to the Council to stop the suspension. In such case, the suspension referred to in paragraph 1 is delayed until the Council takes a decision, by qualified majority. If the Council approves the Commission proposal, within 3 months from the initiation of such dispute settlement proceedings, the suspension does not come into force. In all other cases, the suspension comes into force. 4. The Commission shall publish a notification in the Official Journal of the European Union, once the suspension becomes effective, stating the nature of the proceeding and informing of the suspension of the application of the relevant provisions. 5. The suspension shall remain in force until the dispute settlement proceedings are concluded by the final ruling of the relevant dispute settlement body. If the decision establishes that the Union violated its obligations under international law, the suspension referred to in paragraph 1 shall continue to be in force until compliance. If the decision establishes that the Union did not violate its obligations under international law, the suspension referred to in paragraph 1 shall be immediately revoked and the Commission shall publish a notification to this effect in the Official Journal of the European Union.
2017/04/06
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 281 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 40 e (new)
Article 40 e Reports on security of raw material supplies and combating unfair trade practices 1. By ... [6 months after the date of entry into force of this Regulation], and annually thereafter, the Commission shall draw up a report, identifying: (a) the main countries exporting to the Union the main raw materials used for production of fertilising products, including natural gas, phosphate rock/apatite, phosphoric acid and potash; (b) the annual volume, value and average export price of such raw materials; (c) any involvement of state-owned or state-controlled, legally or through other means, enterprises in the export of such raw materials from such third countries; (d) the existence of any distortions, such as dual pricing, regulated domestic prices, export bans, export duties, restrictions on foreign ownership or investment in the raw material industry in such third countries, or monopolistic or oligopolistic structure of that industry; (e) the volume and value of such countries' exports of fertilising products to the Union. 2. The report shall also specify, by comparing data from previous years, whether any country restricts its exports of any of the raw materials used for production of fertilising products, including by limiting export quantities or imposing higher prices, and instead increases its exports of fertilising products produced from such raw materials, and if so, the report shall also determine the circumstances of such a shift in trade patterns, in particular whether it may be the result of actions of: (a) the government of the exporting country; (b) an exporting third country monopolistic or oligopolistic exporters; (c) any other governmental or quasi- governmental entity enjoying a dominant position in exporting raw materials from the exporting countries, or a group of such entities; or (d) vertically integrated producer of fertilising products that also controls a significant part of the exporting country's capacities in production or exportation of raw materials, or a group of such producers. 3. The Commission shall present the report to the European Parliament and the Council. 4. Where the report concludes that the circumstances described in paragraph 2 occur, and that the effect of such actions is, on one hand, a limited supply of raw materials to the EU, and, on the other, increased market share of the third countries' finished fertilising products, the Commission shall take appropriate action, including: (a) where the trade distortion causing the limited supply of raw material may be a violation of any international trade agreement, entering into consultations with the third country, and, if required, initiating a trade dispute to eliminate the violation; (b) initiating consultations, and, if warranted, a Community examination procedure pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2015/1843 of the European Parliament and of the Council1a in order to ensure the exercise of the Union's rights under international trade rules, in particular those established under the auspices of the World Trade Organization; (c) where a country in question benefits from autonomous tariff preferences, including under Regulation (EU) No 978/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council1b , taking action to withdraw such preferences for the third country or fertilising products originating in such third country, including by taking any action under Article 3(2), 5(3), 6(2), 8(2)&(3), 10(5), 11(2), 19(3), 21(3) and 36 of Regulation (EU) No 978/2012; in circumstances described in this point, the substantive requirements for Commission delegated acts set out in Articles 3(2), 4, 6(2), 8(1), 10(5), 11(2), 19(1)(d) and 21(1) of Regulation (EU) No 978/2012 are deemed to have been met; (d) where the third country in question benefits from tariff preferences under a free trade agreement, considering imposing safeguard measures under that agreement, if conditions set out under the regulation implementing such safeguard are met or taking actions to withdraw concession and reimpose the regular WTO bound Common Customs Tariff on fertilizing products originating in that third country, pursuant to procedures established by free trade agreement concerned; (e) where fertilising products originating in the third country do not benefit from any tariff preferences and are subject to regular WTO-bound Common Customs Tariff, considering withdrawing concessions under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and other WTO agreements, in line with procedures set out in such agreements (f) adopting a delegated act to deny products originating in the third country the CE-marking; (g) any other action that it deems to be appropriate. 5. For purposes of this article, "oligopolistic" shall include situations where four or less entities or corporate groups control more than 80% of the third country's deposits, production or exports of a given raw material. __________________ _________________ 1a Regulation (EU) 2015/1843 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 October 2015 laying down Union procedures in the field of the common commercial policy (OJ L 272, 16.10.2015, p. 1). 1b Regulation (EU) No 978/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2012 applying a scheme of generalised tariff preferences (GSP Regulation) (OJ L 303, 31.10.2012, p. 1).
2017/04/06
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 282 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 40 f (new)
Article 40 f Availability of Phosphate Rock 1. By...[6 months after the date of entry into force of this Regulation], and every five years thereafter, the Commission shall draw up a report, identifying: (a) the main countries with significant phosphate rock deposits, the projected size of such deposits; production of phosphate rock from such deposits; and the levels of contaminants regulated in Annex I, in particular cadmium and chromium; (b) ownership or control of such deposits, with an indication of whether any foreign investment or foreign ownership restrictions apply to such deposits and, if deposits are already exploited, the involvement of state-owned or state- controlled enterprises in their exploitation; (c) exports of phosphate rock from such countries, with an indication of volume and value of exports to the Union for the last 5 years; (d) where there are no or insignificant exports of phosphate rock from the third country, in general or to the Union, an indication of whether the third country applies any export restrictions and if not, a plausible explanation for that situation of the exports concerned; (e) known production of fertilising products in such countries. 2. Where the report identifies the existence of phosphate rock deposits and no exports or insignificant exports, in general or to the Union, of phosphate rock from the countries referred to in point (a) of paragraph 1, which may be the result of any export, foreign ownership or foreign investment restrictions imposed by the government of the third country concerned, or is the result of the practices of monopolist or oligopolistic exporters including entities with a dominant position; or any other governmental or quasi-governmental entity or a group of such entities; or of a vertically integrated producer of fertilising products that also controls a significant part of the exporting country's capacities in production or exportation of phosphate rock, or a group of such producers, the Commission shall enter into negotiations and use all tools at its disposal, including those mentioned in Article 40e (4) to make such deposits available for exports to the Union. 3. For purpose of this article, insignificance of exports may be determined in relation to the size of deposits or production from such deposits in the third country. Insignificance of exports to the Union may also be determined in relation to exports to other third countries.
2017/04/06
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 284 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 42 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. The Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 43 to amend Annexes III to IV for the purposes of adapting them to technical progress and facilitating internal market access and free movement for CE marked fertilising products
2017/04/06
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 289 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 42 – paragraph 2
2. Where the Commission amends Annex II in order to add newdeleted name of the micro- organisms; to the component material category for such organisms pursuant to paragraph 1, it shaxonomic classification of the historicall do so on the basis of the following data: (a) (b) micro-organism; (c) and use of the micro-organism (d) organism species fulfilling the requirements for a Qualified Presumption of Safety as established by the European Food Safety Agency; (e) toxins; (f) process; and (g) information on the identity of residual intermediates or microbial metabolites in the component material.ata of safe production taxonomic relation to micro- information on residue levels of information on the production
2017/03/16
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 291 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 42 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. The Commission shall amend Annex I only on the basis of one of the following grounds: (a) new scientific studies, reviewed by SCHER; (b) a comprehensive risk assessment; (c) further EFSA studies , covering all aspects of the food chain that identify clear link between contaminant in fertilising products and food safety.
2017/04/06
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 295 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 42 – paragraph 2
2. Where the Commission amends Annex II in order to add new micro- organisms to the component material category for such organisms pursuant to paragraph 1, it shall do so on the basis of the following data: (a) name of the micro-organism; (b) taxonomic classification of the micro- organism; (c) historical data of safe production and use of the micro-organism (d) taxonomic relation to micro-organism species fulfilling the requirements for a Qualified Presumption of Safety as established by the European Food Safety Agency; (e) information on residue levels of toxins; (f) information on the production process; and (g) information on the identity of residual intermediates or microbial metabolites in the component material.deleted
2017/04/06
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 296 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 42 – paragraph 3
3. When adopting delegated acts in accordance with paragraph 1, the Commission may amend the component material categories set out in Annex II in order to add animal by-products within the meaning of Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009 only where an end point in the manufacturing chain has been determined for such products in accordance with the procedures laid down in that Regulation.
2017/03/16
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 303 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 42 – paragraph 4
4. The Commission shall also be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 43 to amend Annexes III to IV in the light of new scientific evidence. The Commission shall use this empowerment where, based on a risk assessment, an amendment proves necessary to ensure that any CE marked fertilising product complying with the requirements of this Regulation does not, under normal conditions of use, present an unacceptable risk to human, animal, or plant health, to safety or to the environment.
2017/03/16
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 308 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 42 – paragraph 3
3. When adopting delegated acts in accordance with paragraph 1, the Commission may amend the component material categories set out in Annex II in order to add animal by-products within the meaning of Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009 only where an end point in the manufacturing chain has been determined for such products in accordance with the procedures laid down in that Regulation.
2017/04/06
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 309 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 42 – paragraph 4
4. The Commission shall also be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 43 to amend Annexes III to IV in the light of new scientific evidence. The Commission shall use this empowerment where, based on a risk assessment, an amendment proves necessary to ensure that any CE marked fertilising product complying with the requirements of this Regulation does not, under normal conditions of use, present an unacceptable risk to human, animal, or plant health, to safety or to the environment.
2017/04/06
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 316 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 43 – paragraph 2
2. The power to adopt delegated acts referred to in point (f) of Article 40e(4) and Article 42 shall be conferred on the Commission for five years from [Publications office, please insert the date of entry into force of this Regulation]. The Commission shall draw up a report in respect of the delegation of power not later than nine months before the end of the five-year period. The delegation of power shall be tacitly extended for periods of an identical duration, unless the European Parliament or the Council opposes such extension not later than three months before the end of each period.
2017/04/06
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 334 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 49 – paragraph 2
It shall apply from 1 January 2018[Publications office, please insert the date occurring five years after of the publication of this Regulation in the Official Journal of the European Union].
2017/03/16
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 336 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 49 – paragraph 2
It shall apply from 1 January 2018[Publications office, please insert the date occurring five years after of the publication of this Regulation in the Official Journal of the European Union].
2017/04/06
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 339 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part 2 – PFC 1(A) – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
of solely biological origin, including peat, leonardite, lignite and humic substances obtained from them, but excluding other material which is fossilized or embedded in geological formations.
2017/03/17
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 343 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 49 – paragraph 2
It shall apply from 1 January 2018, except for provisions of Annex I for PFC1(C)(I)2(a), (b) and (d), which shall come in force only once phosphate rock is removed from the list of Critical Raw Materials.
2017/04/06
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 347 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part 2 – PFC 1(A) – paragraph 2 – indent 1
- Cadmium (Cd) 1,580 mg/kg dry matterP2O5,
2017/03/17
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 348 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part II – PFC 1(A) – point 1 – paragraph 2
of solely biological origin, including peat, leonardite, lignite and humic substances obtained from them, but excluding other material which is fossilized or embedded in geological formations.
2017/04/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 351 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part II – PFC 1 (A) (I) – point 2 a (new)
2a. Where the CE marked fertilizing product contains more than one nutrient the product shall contain the primary declared nutrients in the minimum quantities stated below: □ 2,5% by mass of total nitrogen (N), or2% by mass of total phosphorus pentoxide (P2O5), or2% by mass of total potassium oxide (K2O), and 6,5% by mass of total sum of nutrients.
2017/04/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 356 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part 2 – PFC 1(A) – paragraph 3
3. Salmonella spp. shall be absent in a 25 g sample of the CE marked fertilising product. Clostridium botulinum shall be absent in a 10 g/10 ml sample of the CE marked fertilising product.
2017/03/17
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 360 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part 2 – PFC 1(A) – paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Absence of resistant parasites eggs of Ascaris spp. and Toxocara spp. shall be demonstrated.
2017/03/17
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 360 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part II – PFC 1 (A) (II) – point 2 a (new)
2a. Where the CE marked fertilizing product contains more than one nutrient the product shall contain the primary declared nutrients in the minimum quantities stated below: □ 2% by mass of total nitrogen (N), or1% by mass of total phosphorus pentoxide (P2O5), or2% by mass of total potassium oxide (K2O), and 5% by mass of total sum of primary nutrients.
2017/04/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 362 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part II – PFC 1 (B) – point 1 – indent 2 – subindent 1
– organic carbon (C) and C/N ratio;
2017/04/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 363 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part II – PFC 1 (B) – point 1 – indent 2 – subparagraph 2
of solely biological origin, including peat, leonardite, lignite and humic substances obtained from them, but excluding other material which is fossilized or embedded in geological formations.
2017/04/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 366 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part II – PFC 1 (B) (I) – point 2 a (new)
2a. Where the CE marked fertilizing product contains more than one nutrient the product shall contain the primary declared nutrients in the minimum quantities stated below: 2,5% by mass of total nitrogen (N), out of which 1% by mass of the CE marked fertilizing product shall be organic nitrogen (N), or2% by mass of total phosphorus pentoxide (P2O5), or2% by mass of total potassium oxide (K2O), and 6,5% by mass of total sum of primary nutrients.
2017/04/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 372 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part II – PFC 1 (B) (II) – point 2 a (new)
2a. Where the CE marked fertilizing product contains more than one nutrient the product shall contain the primary declared nutrients in the minimum quantities stated below: 2% by mass of total nitrogen (N), out of which 0,5% by mass of the CE marked fertilizing product shall be organic (N), or2% by mass of total phosphorus pentoxide (P2O5), or2% by mass of total potassium oxide (K2O), and 6% by mass of total sum of nutrients.
2017/04/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 374 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part II – PFC 1 (C)
An inorganic mineral fertiliser shall be a fertiliser other than an organic or organo-mineral fertilisercontaining nutrients in a mineral form or processed into a mineral form from animal or plant origin. Urea and its condensation and association products shall be considered as containing nutrients in a mineral form.
2017/04/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 378 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part 2 – PFC 1(B) – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
of solely biological origin, including peat, leonardite, lignite and humic substances obtained from them, but excluding other material which is fossilized or embedded in geological formations.
2017/03/17
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 379 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part II – PFC 1 (C) (I) – point 1
1. An minorganiceral macronutrient fertiliser shall be aimed at providing plants with one or more of the following macronutrients: (a) Primary: nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and potassium (K),. (b) Secondary: magnesium (Mg), calcium (Ca), sulphur (S) or sodium (Na). The declarable nitrogen content is given by the sum of ammoniacal N, nitric N, ureic N, N from urea formaldehyde, N from isobutylidene diurea, N from crotonylidene diurea. The declarable primary and secondary content is given by the P2O5, K2O, MgO, CaO, SO3, and Na2O form. New forms can be added after a scientific examination.
2017/04/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 382 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part 2 – PFC 1(B) – paragraph 3 – point a
(a) Cadmium (Cd) - 80 mg/kg P2O5.
2017/03/17
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 383 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – Part II – PFC 1(C) (I)(a)(i) – point 1
1. A straight solid minorganiceral macronutrient fertiliser shall have a declared content of not more than oneone primary nutrient.
2017/04/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 386 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part 2 – PFC 1 (C) (I) (a) (i) – point 2 – indent 3
– 6% by mass of total potassium oxide (K2O), and can contain one or more secondary nutrients in the minimum quantity stated:
2017/04/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 389 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part 2 – PFC 1 (C) (I) (a) (i) – point 2 – indent 7
1from 1% to 10% by mass of total sodium oxide (Na2O).
2017/04/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 392 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – Part II – PFC 1(C) (I)(a)(ii) – point 1
1. A compound solid minorganiceral macronutrient fertiliser shall have a declared content of more than one primary nutrient.
2017/04/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 394 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – Part II – PFC 1(C) (I)(a)(ii) – point 2
2. The CE marked fertilising product shall contain more than one of the followingprimary declared nutrients in the minimum quantities stated:
2017/04/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 397 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – Part II – PFC 1(C) (I)(a)(ii) – point 2 – indent 2
35% by mass of total phosphorus pentoxide (P2O5),
2017/04/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 399 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – Part II – PFC 1(C) (I)(a)(ii) – point 2 – indent 3
35% by mass of total potassium oxide (K2O), and can contain one or more secondary nutrients in the minimum quantity stated:
2017/04/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 401 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – Part II – PFC 1(C) (I)(a)(ii) – point 2 – indent 4
1,52% by mass of total magnesium oxide (MgO),
2017/04/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 403 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – Part II – PFC 1(C) (I)(a)(ii) – point 2 – indent 5
1,52% by mass of total calcium oxide (CaO),
2017/04/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 406 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – Part II – PFC 1(C) (I)(a)(ii) – point 2 – indent 6
1,5% by mass of total sulphur trioxide (SO3), or
2017/04/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 408 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – Part II – PFC 1(C) (I)(a)(ii) – point 2 – indent 7
1between 1% to 10% by mass of total sodium oxide (Na2O).
2017/04/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 411 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – Part II – PFC 1(C)(I)(a)(i-ii)(A) – point 5 – indent 1
– following five thermal cycles as described under Heading 4.2 in Module A1 in Annex IV, for testing before placing on the market,
2017/04/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 414 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – Part II – PFC 1(C) (I)(b)(i) – point 1
1. A straight liquid minorganiceral macronutrient fertiliser shall have a declared content of not more than oneone primary nutrient.
2017/04/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 415 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – Part II – PFC 1(C) (I)(b)(i) – point 2 – introductory part
2. The CE marked fertilising product shall contain one of the followingprimary declared nutrients in the minimum quantity stated:
2017/04/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 417 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part II – PFC 1(C) (I) (b) (i) – point 2 – indent 3
– 3% by mass of total potassium oxide (K2O), and can contain one or more secondary nutrients in the minimum quantity stated:
2017/04/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 419 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part II – PFC 1(C) (I) (b) (i) – point 2 – indent 6
– 5% by mass of total sulphur trioxide (SO3), or
2017/04/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 421 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part II – PFC 1(C) (I) (b) (i) – point 2 – indent 7
1from 0,5% to 5% by mass of total sodium oxide (Na2O).
2017/04/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 423 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – Part II – PFC 1(C) (I)(b)(ii) – point 1
1. A compound liquid minorganiceral macronutrient fertiliser shall have a declared content of more than one primary nutrient.
2017/04/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 425 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – Part II – PFC 1(C) (I)(b)(ii) – point 2 – introductory part
2. The CE marked fertilising product shall contain more than one of the followingprimary declared nutrients in the minimum quantities stated:
2017/04/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 427 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part II – PFC 1(C) (I) (b) (ii) – point 2 – indent 1
1,53% by mass of total nitrogen (N),
2017/04/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 430 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part II – PFC 1(C) (I) (b) (ii) – point 2 – indent 2
1,53% by mass of total phosphorus pentoxide (P2O5),
2017/04/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 434 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part II – PFC 1(C) (I) (b) (ii) – point 2 – indent 3
1,54% by mass of total potassium oxide (K2O), and can contain one or more secondary nutrients in the minimum quantity stated:
2017/04/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 435 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part 2 – PFC 1(B) – paragraph 3 – point e a (new)
(ea) biuret (C2H5N3O2) 12 g/kg
2017/03/17
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 437 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part 2 – PFC 1(B) – paragraph 4
4. Salmonella spp. shall be absent in a 25 g sample of the CE marked fertilising product. Clostridium botulinum shall be absent in a 10 g/10 ml sample of the CE marked fertilising product.
2017/03/17
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 438 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part II – PFC 1(C) (I) (b) (ii) – point 2 – indent 4
0,754% by mass of total magnesium oxide (MgO),
2017/04/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 441 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part 2 – PFC 1(B) – paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Absence of resistant parasites eggs of Ascaris spp. and Toxocara spp. shall be demonstrated.
2017/03/17
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 442 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part II – PFC 1(C) (I) (b) (ii) – point 2 – indent 5
0,752% by mass of total calcium oxide (CaO),
2017/04/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 446 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part II – PFC 1(C) (I) (b) (ii) – point 2 – indent 6
0,75% by mass of total sulphur trioxide (SO3), or
2017/04/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 450 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part II – PFC 1(C) (I) (b) (ii) – point 2 – indent 7
0,from 0,5% to 5% by mass of total sodium oxide (Na2O).
2017/04/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 456 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part II – PFC 3(A) – point 1
1. An organic soil improver shall consist exclusively of material of solely biological origin, including peat, leonardite, lignite and humic substances obtained from them, but excluding other materials which isare fossilized or embedded in geological formations.
2017/04/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 460 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part 2 – PFC 1(C) – paragraph 1
An inorganic mineral fertiliser shall be a fertiliser other than an organic or organo-mineral fertilisercontaining nutrients in a mineral form or processed into a mineral form from animal or plant origin. Urea and its condensation and association products shall be considered as containing nutrients in a mineral form.
2017/03/17
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 465 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part 2 – PFC 1(C)(I) – paragraph 1
1. An minorganiceral macronutrient fertiliser shall be aimed at providing plants with one or more of the following macronutrients: (a) Primary: nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and potassium (K),. (b) Secondary: magnesium (Mg), calcium (Ca), sulphur (S) or sodium (Na). The declarable nitrogen content is given by the sum of ammoniacal N, nitric N, ureic N, N from urea formaldehyde, N from isobutylidene diurea, N from crotonylidene diurea. The declarable primary and secondary content is given by the P2O5, K2O, MgO, CaO, SO3, and Na2O form. New forms can be added after a scientific examination.
2017/03/17
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 468 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part 2 – PFC 1(C)(I) – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) Cadmium (Cd) - 80 mg/kg P2O5.
2017/03/17
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 477 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – part II – CMC 2 – point 1
1. A CE marked fertilising product may contain plants, plant parts or plant extracts having undergone no other processing than cutting, grinding, centrifugation, pressing, drying, freeze- dryingsieving, milling, centrifugation, pressing, drying, freeze- drying, buffering, extrusion, frost- treatment, sanitation by using heat, or extraction with water.
2017/04/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 493 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – Part II – CMC 8 – point 1
1. A CE marked fertilising product may contain a substance or a mixture (including technological additives, for example: anti-caking agents, defoaming agents, anti-dust agents, dyes and rheological agents) intended to improve the fertilising product's nutrient release patterns, only if that substance's or mixture's compliance with the requirements of this Regulation for a product in PFC 5 of Annex I has been demonstrated in accordance with the conformity assessment procedure applicable to such an agronomic additive.
2017/04/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 495 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – Part II – CMC 8 – point 3
3. A CE marked fertilising product may contain a compliant nitrification inhibitor, as referred to in PFC 5(A)(I) of Annex I, only if at least 50% of the total nitrogen (N) content of the fertilising product consists of the nitrogen (N) forms ammonium (NH4+) or ammonium (NH4+) and urea (CH4N2O).
2017/04/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 507 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – part II – CMC 11 a (new)
CMC 11a: OTHER INDUSTRY BY- PRODUCTS 1. A CE marked fertilising product may contain other industry by-products coming from specific industrial processes, which are excluded from CMC 1 and are listed in the table below, under the conditions specified therein: 2. Until [Publications office, please insert the date occurring 5 years after the publication of this regulation in the Official Journal of the European Union] the following currently used industrial by- products are allowed to be used as component materials of CE market fertilizing products: ammonium sulfate, sulfuric acid, iron sulfate, ammonia, magnesium sulfate, magnesium nitrate and anti-caking agents, when obtained as by-products or co-products of specific industrial processes.
2017/04/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 510 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex III – part 1 – point 2 – point c
(c) IShort instructions for intended use, including intended application rate and intended target plants;
2017/04/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 513 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part 2 – PFC 1(C)(I) – paragraph 2 – point d
(d) Nickel (Ni) 1240 mg/kg dry matter,
2017/03/17
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 516 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex III – part 2 – PFC 1 – point 2 – point b
(b) The nitrification inhibitor content shall be expressed as a percentage by mass of the total nitrogen (N) present as ammonium nitrogen (NH4+) or ammonium nitrogen (NH4+) and urea nitrogen (CH4N2O).
2017/04/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 518 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part 2 – PFC 1 (C) (I) – paragraph 2 – point g
(g) Bbiuret (C2H5N3O2) 12 g/kg dry matter, and(twelve) g/kg
2017/03/17
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 521 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part 2 – PFC 1 (C) (I) (a)(i) – paragraph 1
1. A straight solid minorganiceral macronutrient fertiliser shall have a declared content of not more than oneone primary nutrient.
2017/03/17
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 522 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex III – Part 2 – PFC 1(A) – point 1 – point d – indent 6
– Organic carbon (C); and C/N ratio;
2017/04/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 523 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part 2 – PFC 1 (C) (I) (a)(i) – paragraph 2 – introductory part
2. The CE marked fertilising product shall contain one of the followingprimary declared nutrients in the minimum quantity stated:
2017/03/17
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 523 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex III – Part 2 – PFC 1(B) – point 1 – point e
(e) where urea (CH4N2O) is present, information about the possible air quality impacts of the release of ammonia from the fertiliser use, and an invitation to users to apply appropriate remediation measures.deleted
2017/04/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 525 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part 2 – PFC 1 (C) (I) (a)(i) – paragraph 2 – indent 3 a (new)
- and can contain one or more secondary nutrients in the minimum quantity stated:
2017/03/17
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 529 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part 2 – PFC 1 (C) (I) (a)(i) – paragraph 2 – indent 6
- 10% by mass of total sulphur trioxide (SO3), or
2017/03/17
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 530 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part 2 – PFC 1 (C) (I) (a)(i) – paragraph 2 – indent 7
- 1from 1% to 10% by mass of total sodium oxide (Na2O).
2017/03/17
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 530 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex III – part 2 – PFC1 (C) (I) – point 1 – point a
(a) the declared nutrients nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) or potassium (K), by their chemical symbols in the order N-P-K;. The declared nitrogen content is given by the sum of ammoniacal N, nitric N, ureic N, N from urea formaldehyde, N from isobutylidene diurea, and N from crotonylidene diurea. Phosphorus fertilisers must fulfil the following minimum solubility levels to be plant-available, otherwise they cannot be declared as phosphorus fertilisers: – water solubility: minimum level 40% of total P2O5, – minimum level 75% of total P2O5, solubility in neutral ammonium citrate, – solubility in formic acid (only for soft rock phosphate): minimum level 55% of total P2O5.
2017/04/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 532 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part 2 – PFC 1 (C) (I) (a)(ii) – paragraph 1
1. A compound solid minorganiceral macronutrient fertiliser shall have a declared content of more than one primary nutrient.
2017/03/17
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 534 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part 2 – PFC 1 (C) (I) (a)(ii) – paragraph 2
2. The CE marked fertilising product shall contain more than one of the followingprimary declared nutrients in the minimum quantities stated:
2017/03/17
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 535 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part 2 – PFC 1 (C) (I) (a)(ii) – paragraph 2 – indent 2
- 35% by mass of total phosphorus pentoxide (P2O5),
2017/03/17
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 536 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part 2 – PFC 1 (C) (I) (a)(ii) – paragraph 2 – indent 3
- 35% by mass of total potassium oxide (K2O),
2017/03/17
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 536 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex III – part 2 – PFC1 (C) (I) – point 1 – point e
(e) where urea (CH4N2O) is present, information about the possible air quality impacts of the release of ammonia from the fertiliser use, and an invitation to users to apply appropriate remediation measures.deleted
2017/04/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 538 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part 2 – PFC 1 (C) (I) (a)(ii) – paragraph 2 – indent 3 a (new)
- and can contain one or more secondary nutrients in the minimum quantity stated:
2017/03/17
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 539 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part 2 – PFC 1 (C) (I) (a)(ii) – paragraph 2 – indent 4
- 1,52% by mass of total magnesium oxide (MgO),
2017/03/17
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 540 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part 2 – PFC 1 (C) (I) (a)(ii) – paragraph 2 – indent 5
- 1,52% by mass of total calcium oxide (CaO),
2017/03/17
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 541 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part 2 – PFC 1 (C) (I) (a)(ii) – paragraph 2 – indent 6
- 1,5% by mass of total sulphur trioxide (SO3), or
2017/03/17
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 542 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part 2 – PFC 1 (C) (I) (a)(ii) – paragraph 2 – indent 7
- 1between 1% to 10% by mass of total sodium oxide (Na2O).
2017/03/17
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 543 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part 2 – PFC 1 (C) (I) (a)(i-ii) (A) – paragraph 5 – indent 1
- following five thermal cycles as described under Heading 4.2 in Module A1 in Annex IV, for testing before placing on the market,
2017/03/17
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 544 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex III – Part 2 – PFC 1(C)(I)(a) – point 3 – point c
(c) powder, where at least 90% of the product can pass through a sieve with a mesh of 10 mm, or
2017/04/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 547 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part 2 – PFC 1 (C) (I) (b)(i) – paragraph 1
1. A straight liquid minorganiceral macronutrient fertiliser shall have a declared content of not more than oneone primary nutrient.
2017/03/17
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 549 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part 2 – PFC 1 (C) (I) (b)(i) – paragraph 2 – introductory part
2. The CE marked fertilising product shall contain one of the followingprimary declared nutrients in the minimum quantity stated:
2017/03/17
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 550 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part 2 – PFC 1 (C) (I) (b)(i) – paragraph 2 – indent 3 a (new)
- and can contain one or more secondary nutrients in the minimum quantity stated:
2017/03/17
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 552 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part 2 – PFC 1 (C) (I) (b)(i) – paragraph 2 – indent 6
- 5% by mass of total sulphur trioxide (SO3), or
2017/03/17
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 552 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex III – part 3 –PFC 1(A)
Permissible Permissible tolerance for the tolerance for the declared nutrient declared nutrient content and other content and other declared declared parameter parameter Organic carbon ± 2015 % relative (C) deviation of the declared value up declared value up to a maximum of to a maximum of 2,0 percentage 2,0 percentage point in absolute point in absolute terms terms Dry matter ± 5,0 percentage content point in absolute terms terms Total nitrogen ± 150 % relative (N) deviation of the declared value up declared value up to a maximum of to a maximum of 1,0 percentage 1,0 percentage point in absolute point in absolute terms terms Organic nitrogen ± 150 % relative (N) deviation of the declared value up declared value up to a maximum of to a maximum of 1,0 percentage 1,0 percentage point in absolute point in absolute terms terms Total phosphorus ± 150 % relative pentoxide (P2O5) deviation of the declared value up declared value up to a maximum of to a maximum of 1,0 percentage 1,0 percentage point in absolute point in absolute terms terms Total potassium ± 150 % relative oxide (K2O) deviation of the declared value up declared value up to a maximum of to a maximum of 1,0 percentage 1,0 percentage point in absolute point in absolute terms terms Total and water- ± 25% of the soluble declared content magnesium of those nutrients oxide, calcium up to a maximum oxide, sulphur of 1,5 percentage trioxide or points in absolute sodium oxide terms. Total copper (Cu) ± 50 % relative Total zinc (Zn) ± 50 % relative Quantity - 5 % relative deviation of the deviation of the declared value up declared value up to a maximum of to a maximum of 2,5 percentage 2,5 percentage points in absolute points in absolute terms terms Total zinc (Zn) ± 50 % relative deviation of the deviation of the declared value up declared value up to a maximum of to a maximum of 2,0 percentage 2,0 percentage points in absolute points in absolute terms terms Quantity - 5 % relative deviation of the deviation of the declared value declared value Declared forms Binaries: of nitrogen, maximum phosphorus and tolerance, in potassium absolute terms, of 1,1 N and 0,5 organic N, 1,1 P2O5, 1,1 K2O and 1,5 for the sum of two nutrients. Ternaries: maximum tolerance, in absolute terms, of 1,1 N and 0,5 organic N, 1,1 P2O5, 1,1 K2O and 1,9 for the sum of three nutrients. ± 10 % of the total declared content of each nutrient up to a maximum of 2 percentage points in absolute terms.
2017/04/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 553 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part 2 – PFC 1 (C) (I) (b)(i) – paragraph 2 – indent 7
- 1from 0,5% to 5% by mass of total sodium oxide (Na2O).
2017/03/17
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 555 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex III – part 3 –PFC 1(B) – table 1
Permissible tolerance for the declared content of forms of inorganic macronutrient N P2O5 K2 MgO CaO SO3 Na2O O ± 25% of the declared ± 25% of the declared-50% and +100% of the ± 25% of the content of the nutrient forms declared content of those nutrients up declared content up present up to a maximum of nutrients up to a maximum of 1,5 to a maximum of 0,.9 2 percentage point in -2 and +4 percentage points in absolute percentage points in absolute terms for each in absolute terms. absolute terms nutrient separately and for the sum of nutrients
2017/04/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 556 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part 2 – PFC 1 (C) (I) (b)(ii) – paragraph 1
1. A compound liquid minorganiceral macronutrient fertiliser shall have a declared content of more than one primary nutrient.
2017/03/17
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 558 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part 2 – PFC 1 (C)(I) (b)(ii) – paragraph 2 – introductory part
2. The CE marked fertilising product shall contain more than one of the followingprimary declared nutrients in the minimum quantities stated:
2017/03/17
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 558 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex III – part 3 –PFC 1(B)
Organic carbon: 20± 15 % relative deviation of the declared value up to a maximum of 2,0 percentage point in absolute terms Organic nitrogen: 50± 15 % relative deviation of the declared value up to a maximum of 1,0 percentage point in absolute terms Total copper (Cu) ± 50 % relative deviation of the declared value up to a maximum of 2,5 percentage points in absolute terms Total zinc (Zn) ± 50 % relative deviation of the declared value up to a maximum of 2,0 percentage points in absolute terms
2017/04/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 559 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part 2 – PFC 1 (C)(I) (b)(ii) – paragraph 2 – indent 1
- 1,53% by mass of total nitrogen (N),
2017/03/17
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 560 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex III – part 3 – PFC 1(C)(I)
Permissible tolerance for the declared content of forms of inorganic macronutrient N P2O5 K2O MgO CaO SO3 Na2O ± 25% of the declared content ± 25% of the declared -50% and +100% of the ± 25% of the of the nutrient forms present declared content of those nutrients up declared content up up to a maximum of 2 nutrients up to a maximum of 1,5 to a maximum of percentage point in absolute -2 and +4 percentage points in absolute 0,.9 percentage terms for each nutrient in absolute terms. points in absolute separately and for the sum of termsterms nutrients The above tolerance values apply also for the N-forms and for the solubilities. Granulometry: ± 120 % relative deviation applicable to the declared percentage of material passing a specific sieve Quantity: ± 53 % relative deviation of the declared value
2017/04/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 561 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part 2 – PFC 1 (C)(I) (b)(ii) – paragraph 2 – indent 2
- 1,53% by mass of total phosphorus pentoxide (P2O5),
2017/03/17
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 563 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part 2 – PFC 1 (C)(I) (b)(ii) – paragraph 2 – indent 3
- 1,54% by mass of total potassium oxide (K2O),
2017/03/17
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 565 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part 2 – PFC 1 (C)(I) (b)(ii) – paragraph 2 – indent 3 a (new)
- and can contain one or more secondary nutrients in the minimum quantity stated:
2017/03/17
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 567 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part 2 – PFC 1 (C)(I) (b)(ii) – paragraph 2 – indent 4
- 0,754% by mass of total magnesium oxide (MgO),
2017/03/17
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 567 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex III – part 3 – PFC 3
Forms of the declared nutrient and other Permissible tolerances for the declared declared quality criteria parameter pH ± 0,7 at the time of manufacture ± 1,0± 0,9 at any time in the distribution chain Organic carbon (C) ± 10% relative deviation of the declared value up to a maximum of 1,0 percentage points in absolute terms Total nitrogen (N) ± 20% relative deviation up to a maximum of 1,0 percentage point in absolute terms Total phosphorus pentoxide (P2O5) ± 20% relative deviation up to a maximum of 1,0 percentage point in absolute terms Total potassium oxide (K2O) ± 20% relative deviation up to a maximum of 1,0 percentage point in absolute terms Dry matter ± 10% relative deviation of the declared value Quantity - 5% relative deviation of the declared value at the time of manufacture - 215% relative deviation of the declared value at any time in the distribution chain Carbon (C) org /Nitrogen (N) org ± 20% relative deviation of the declared value up to a maximum of 2,0 percentage points in absolute terms Granulometry ± 10 % relative deviation applicable to the declared percentage of material passing a specific sieve.
2017/04/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 568 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part 2 – PFC 1 (C)(I) (b)(ii) – paragraph 2 – indent 5
- 0,752% by mass of total calcium oxide (CaO),
2017/03/17
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 569 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part 2 – PFC 1 (C)(I) (b)(ii) – paragraph 2 – indent 6
- 0,75% by mass of total sulphur trioxide (SO3), or
2017/03/17
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 570 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part 2 – PFC 1 (C)(I) (b)(ii) – paragraph 2 – indent 7
- 0,from 0,5% to 5% by mass of total sodium oxide (Na2O).
2017/03/17
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 570 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex III – part 3 – PFC 4
Forms of the declared nutrient and other Permissible tolerances for the declared declared quality criteria parameter Electric conductivity ± 50% relative deviation at the time of manufacture ± 7560% relative deviation at any time in the distribution chain pH ± 0,7 at the time of manufacture ± 1,0 ± 0,9 at any time in the distribution chain Quantity by volume (litres or m³) - 5% relative deviation at the time of manufacture - 215% relative deviation at any time in the distribution chain Quantity (volume) determination of - 5% relative deviation at the time of materials with particle size greater than 60 manufacture mm mm - 215% relative deviation at any time in the distribution chain Quantity (volume) determination of pre- - 5% relative deviation at the time of shaped GM manufacture - 215% relative deviation at any time in the distribution chain Water-soluble nitrogen (N) ± 50% relative deviation at the time of manufacture ± 7560% relative deviation at any time in the distribution chain Water-soluble phosphorus pentoxide ± 50% relative deviation at the time of (P2O5) manufacture ± 7560% relative deviation at any time in the distribution chain Water-soluble potassium oxide (K2O) ± 50% relative deviation at the time of manufacture ± 7560% relative deviation at any time in the distribution chain
2017/04/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 575 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex IV – part 2 – module A – point 2.2 – point b
(b) conceptual design and manufacturing drawings and schemes,deleted
2017/04/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 578 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex IV – part 2 – module A – point 2.2 – point c
(c) descriptions and explanations necessary for the understanding of those drawings and schemes and the use of the CE marked fertilising product,deleted
2017/04/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 580 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part 2 – PFC 3 (A) – paragraph 1
1. An organic soil improver shall consist exclusively of material of solely biological origin, including peat, leonardite, lignite and humic substances obtained from them, but excluding other materials which isare fossilized or embedded in geological formations.
2017/03/17
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 583 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex IV – part 2 – Module A1 – point 4 – paragraph 1
The cycles and test referred to under Headings 4.1-4.3 below shall be carried out on a representative sample of the product at least at least every 3six months in the case of continuous operation of the plant or every year for the periodic production on behalf of the manufacturer, in order to verify conformity with
2017/04/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 589 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part 2 – PFC 3(A) – paragraph 3 – point a
(a) Salmonella spp. shall be absent in a 25 g sample of the CE marked fertilising product. Clostridium botulinum shall be absent in a 10 g/10 ml sample of the CE marked fertilising product.
2017/03/17
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 592 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part 2 – PFC 3(A) – paragraph 3 – point b a (new)
(b a) Absence of resistant parasites eggs of Ascaris spp. and Toxocara spp. shall be demonstrated.
2017/03/17
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 594 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex V a (new)
WTO Compatible Limit of Cadmium in Fertilizers Any producer of fertilizing products that is able to prove - to the satisfaction of the competent authority - that the average Cd level in its CE market fertilising product placed on the market is not higher than 80 mg/1 kg P2O5 will be deemed to satisfy – with respect to its fertilizing products - the requirement of Article 4(1)(a) of the Regulation with respect to any of its EC- marked fertilising products as the limit of cadmium in , PFC1(C)(I) 2(a) is concerned. For EU producers, the competent authority is the relevant authority in the Member State where it is established. For non-EU producers, the competent authority is the Commission.
2017/04/03
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 608 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part 2 – PFC 4 – paragraph 3
3. Salmonella spp. shall be absent in a 25 g sample of the CE marked fertilising product. Clostridium botulinum shall be absent in a 10 g/10 ml sample of the CE marked fertilising product.
2017/03/17
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 610 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part 2 – PFC 4 – paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Absence of resistant parasites eggs of Ascaris spp. and Toxocara spp. shall be demonstrated.
2017/03/17
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 730 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – part 2 – CMC 8 – paragraph 3
3. A CE marked fertilising product may contain a compliant nitrification inhibitor, as referred to in PFC 5(A)(I) of Annex I, only if at least 50% of the total nitrogen (N) content of the fertilising product consists of the nitrogen (N) forms ammonium (NH4+) or ammonium (NH4+) and urea (CH4N2O).
2017/04/05
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 780 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex III – part 2 – PFC 1 – paragraph 2 – point b
(b) The nitrification inhibitor content shall be expressed as a percentage by mass of the total nitrogen (N) present as ammonium nitrogen (NH4+) or ammonium nitrogen (NH4+) and urea nitrogen (CH4N2O).
2017/04/05
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 786 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex III – part 2 – PFC 1 (C)(I) – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) the declared nutrients nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) or potassium (K), by their chemical symbols in the order N-P-K; . The declared nitrogen content is given by the sum of ammoniacal N, nitric N, ureic N, N from urea formaldehyde, N from isobutylidene diurea, and N from crotonylidene diurea. Phosphorus fertilisers must fulfil the following minimum solubility levels to be plant-available, otherwise they cannot be declared as phosphorus fertilisers: – water solubility: minimum level 40% of total P205, – minimum level 75% of total P205, solubility in neutral ammonium citrate, – solubility in formic acid (only for soft rock phosphate): minimum level 55% of total P205.
2017/04/05
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 799 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex III – part 2 – PFC 1(C)(I) – paragraph 1 – point e
(e) where urea (CH4N2O) is present, information about the possible air quality impacts of the release of ammonia from the fertiliser use, and an invitation to users to apply appropriate remediation measures.deleted
2017/04/05
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 800 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex III – part 2 – PFC 1 (C)(I) – paragraph 1 – point e
(e) where urea (CH4N2O) is present, information about the possible air quality impacts of the release of ammonia from the fertiliser use, and an invitation to users to apply appropriate remediation measures.deleted
2017/04/05
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 835 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex IV – part 2 – Module A – paragraph 2.2 – point b
(b) conceptual design and manufacturing drawings and schemes,deleted
2017/04/05
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 838 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex IV – part 2 – Module A – paragraph 2.2 – point c
(c) descriptions and explanations necessary for the understanding of those drawings and schemes and the use of the CE marked fertilising product,deleted
2017/04/05
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 841 #

2016/0084(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex IV – part 2 – Module A 1 – paragraph 4 – introductory part
The cycles and test referred to under Headings 4.1-4.3 below shall be carried out on a representative sample of the product at least at least every 3six months in the case of continuous operation of the plant or every year for the periodic production on behalf of the manufacturer, in order to verify conformity with
2017/04/05
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 19 #

2016/0070(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Citation 3 a (new)
Having regard to the reasoned opinions issued by national parliaments from 11 Member States objecting the Commission proposal on the grounds of subsidiarity,
2017/03/27
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 25 #

2016/0070(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 2
(2) The freedom to provide services includes the right of undertakings to provide services in another Member State, to which they may post their own workers temporarily in order to provide those services there. The Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union in Article 56 provides that restrictions on the freedom to provide services are prohibited.
2017/03/27
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 39 #

2016/0070(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 4
(4) Almost twenty years after its adoption, it is necessary to assess whetherensure that the Posting of Workers Directive still strikes the right balance between the need to promote the freedom to provide services and the need to protect the rights of posted workers.
2017/03/27
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 61 #

2016/0070(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 8
(8) IEspecially in view of the long duration of certain posting assignments, it is necessary to provide that, in case of posting lasting for periods higher than 24 months, the host Member State is deemed to be the country in which the work isclosely check and assess whether a posted worker temporarily carrieds out. In accordance with the principle of Rome I Regulation, the law of his or her work in the host Member States therefore applies to the employment contract of such posted workers if no other choice of law was made by the parties. In case a different choice was made, it cannot, however, have the result of depriving the employee of the protection afforded to him by provisions that cannot be derogated from by agreement under the law of the host Member State. This should apply from the start of the posting assignment whenever it is envisaged for more than 24 months and from the first day subsequent to the 24 months when it effectively exceeds this duration. This rule does not affect the right of undertakings posting workers to the territory of another Member State to invoke the freedom to provide services in circumstances also where the posting exceeds 24 months. The purpose is merely to create legal certainty in the application of the Rome I Regulation to a specific situation, without amending that Regul. Article 2 of this Directive defines the nature of posting as having a temporary character therefore temporary character is an indispensable feature of genuine posting. Article 4 paragraph 3 of the Enforcement Directive 2014/67/EU provides a clear list of elements of temporary nature of posting. In addition, the case law provides explanation of the notion of temporary nature of the provision of services, which is to be determined by its duration, regularity, periodicity and continuity. Therefore the temporary character, being the indispensable feature of posting, should be closely monitored and assessed, especially in the case of postings of long duration, in any way. The employee will in particular enjoy the protection and benefits pursuant to the Rome I Regulaorder to avoid abuse and circumvention.
2017/03/27
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 75 #

2016/0070(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 9 a (new)
(9 a) Directive 2014/67/EU on the enforcement of Directive 96/71/EC provides a number of provisions to make sure that rules on posting of workers are enforced and are respected by all service providers. Article 4 of the enforcement directive provides a list of elements that should be assessed in order to identify the genuine posting and prevent abuse and circumvention.
2017/03/27
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 84 #

2016/0070(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 10
(10) Because of the highly mobile nature of work in international road transport, the implementation of the posting of workers directive raises particular legal questions and difficulties (especially where the link with the concerned Member State is insufficient). It would be most suitTherefore transport services such as transit, international transport and linked cabotage are excluded forom these challenges to scope of this Directive and should be addressed through sector-specific legislation together with other EU initiatives aimed at improving the functioning of the internal road transport market.
2017/03/27
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 104 #

2016/0070(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 12
(12) It is within Member States' competence to set rules on remunerationminimum rates of pay in accordance with their law and practice. However, these national rules on remunerationminimum rates of pay applied to posted workers must be proportionate, non- discriminatory and justified by the need to protect posted workers and must not disproportionately restrict the cross-border provision of services.
2017/03/27
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 110 #

2016/0070(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 13
(13) The elements of remunerationinformation on minimum rates of pay under national law or universally applicable collective agreements should be clear, up to date and transparent to all service providers. It is therefore justified to impose on Member States the obligation to publish the constituent elements of remuneris information on the single website provided for by Article 5 of the Enforcement Directive. In order to provide more transparency and clarity generally applicable collective agreements should be also accompanied by clear information on applicable minimum rates of pay. Social partners are also obliged to make public all collective agreements, which are applicable according to this Directive. Similarly, foreign subcontractors should be informed in writing about terms and conditions of employment that they should apply towards posted workers.
2017/03/27
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 124 #

2016/0070(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 14
(14) Laws, regulations, administrative provisions or collective agreements applicable in Member States may ensure that subcontracting does not confer on undertakings the possibility to avoid rules guaranteeing certain terms and conditions of employment covering remunerationMember States have the freedom to establish on their territory appropriate measures applicable to local and foreign service providers in order to ensure compliance with the applicable rules concerning posting in case of subcontracting chains. In the case of the construction sector Member States are obliged, by the Directive 2014/67/EU, to introduce appropriate liability measures in order to ensure fair competition and workers rights. WThere such rules on remuneration exist at national level, thefore laws, regulations, administrative provisions or universally applicable collective agreements applicable in Member States may apply them in a non- discriminatory mannensure that subcontracting does not confer ton undertakings posting workers to the possibilitsy territory provided that they do not disproportionately restrict the cross-border proviso avoid rules guaranteeing certain terms and conditions of servicesemployment.
2017/03/27
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 137 #

2016/0070(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point -1 (new)
Directive 96/71/EC
Article 1 – paragraph 2
(-1) in Article 1, paragraph 2 is replaced by the following: “2. This Directive shall not apply to merchant navy undertakings as regards seagoing personnel.” (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:31996L0071:en:HTML) as well as transport services such as transit, international transport and linked cabotage.” Or. en
2017/03/27
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 147 #

2016/0070(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Directive 96/71/EC
Article 2 a
(1) The following Article 2a is added: Article 2a Posting exceeding twenty-four months 1. When the anticipated or the effective duration of posting exceeds twenty-four months, the Member State to whose territory a worker is posted shall be deemed to be the country in which his or her work is habitually carried out. 2. For the purpose of paragraph 1, in case of replacement of posted workers performing the same task at the same place, the cumulative duration of the posting periods of the workers concerned shall be taken into account, with regard to workers that are posted for an effective duration of at least six months.deleted
2017/03/27
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 149 #

2016/0070(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Directive 96/71/EC
Article 2a
(1) The following Article 2a is added: Posting exceeding twenty-four months 1. effective duration of posting exceeds twenty-four months, the Member State to whose territory a worker is posted shall be deemed to be the country in which his or her work is habitually carried out. 2. case of replacement of posted workers performing the same task at the same place, the cumulative duration of the posting periods of the workers concerned shall be taken into account, with regard to workers that are posted for an effective duration of at least six months.deleted Article 2a When the anticipated or the For the purpose of paragraph 1, in
2017/03/27
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 177 #

2016/0070(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point a
Directive 96/71/EC
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – indent 2 – point c
(c) remuneration, including overtime rates; this point does not apply to supplementary occupational retirement pension schemes;minimum rates of pay
2017/03/27
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 208 #

2016/0070(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point b
Directive 96/71/EC
Article 3 – paragraph 1a
1a. If undertakings established in the territory of a Member State are obliged by law, regulation, administrative provision or collective agreement, to sub-contract in the context of their contractual obligations only to undertakings that guarantee certain terms and conditions of employment covering remuneration,, the Member State may, on a non– discriminatory and proportionate basis, provide that such undertakings shall be under the same obligation regarding subcontracts with undertakings referred to in Article 1 (1) posting workers to its territory.deleted
2017/03/27
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 423 #

2016/0014(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Sufficient and effective market surveillance is key to ensure that products put on the market effectively comply with legislation in terms of safety and environmental protection. Although funding is key, budget for the market surveillance activities should not impose extra costs on consumers.
2016/10/18
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 425 #

2016/0014(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. In particular, national market surveillance authorities shall take into account the information on non- conformities with European acts and regulations submitted to them by independent third-party organizations.
2016/10/18
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 505 #

2016/0014(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. The Commission should guarantee that such data are made available for the purpose of further testing and follow up in order to use every evidence to avoid any neglecting.
2016/10/18
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 27 #

2015/2354(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B
B. whereas the single market is underperforming in almost all areas – in stimulating a digital-driven market, encouraging start-ups, integrating global supply chains, dealing with new business models and ensuring market facilitation, mutual recognition, standardisation and the licensing of professionals;
2016/02/26
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 58 #

2015/2354(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Supports the overall objectives of the Commission’s Single Market Strategy for goods and services: "Upgrading the Single Market: more opportunities for people and business", and welcomes its vision for how to unleash the full potential of the single market;
2016/02/26
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 65 #

2015/2354(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes the fact that the strategy is complementary to efforts made in other areas; believes that, by building on the initiatives already being taken, the strategy has good potential to help ensure economic prosperity and make the European Union attractive for investments;
2016/02/26
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 84 #

2015/2354(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Underlines that the Better Regulation Agenda should be at the heart of any initiatives from the Commission; more importantly, reiterates that new initiatives should be evidence-based and in particular take into account the impact on SMEs;
2016/02/26
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 86 #

2015/2354(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Believes that it is necessary to adopt a common definition of ‘innovative’ start- ups and SMEs, or objective criteria, that can be used as a point of reference for the adoption of related measures; calls on the Commission to propose such a definition;deleted
2016/02/26
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 116 #

2015/2354(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Welcomes the Commission’s determination to address the difficulties faced by SMEs as a result of the complexity of differing national VAT regulations; extends its full support to the Commission in respect of the VAT reform; calls on the Commission to assess the feasibility of further coordination and, in particular, to assess the possibility of a single VAT tax in the e-commerce sector;
2016/02/26
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 137 #

2015/2354(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Draws attention to the fact thatPoints out that, despite the fact that the European Parliament adopted the directive on combating late payment in commercial transactions in February 2011, each year thousands of SMEs across Europe go bankrupt while waiting for their invoices to be paid, including by public administrations; calls on the Commission and the Member States to step up their efforts to facilitate the application and enforcement of the Late Payment Directive; calls, furthermore, on the Member States to consider, in the event of unsatisfactory implementation of the Late Payment Directive, forms of adequate compensation for companies owed money by a public administration on the Commission to carefully assess, when reporting to the Parliament, whether additional legislative measures or revision of the directive are not needed;
2016/02/26
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 184 #

2015/2354(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Considers that, in the collaborative economy, the emergence of new business models, including collaborative or sharing economy, should incentivise the Commission to review the level of regulation on a given market and assess whether it is not too burdensome for companies, notably SMEs, and therefore is not hampering entrepreneurship; considers that the same rules should apply to the same services, with a view to ensuring a level playing field and consumer safety while avoiding fragmentation that would hamper the development of new business models;
2016/02/26
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 206 #

2015/2354(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
16. Draws attention to the important role of standards for innovation and progress inthe functioning of the single market; calls on the Commission to support and reinforce European standards, including by exploiting the opportunities offered by the ongoing negotiations for a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP);
2016/02/26
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 232 #

2015/2354(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
19. Calls on the Commission to present a proposal for the protection of geographical indications for non- agricultural products in the EU;deleted
2016/02/26
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 248 #

2015/2354(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to analyse unnecessary restrictions within the single market that are not justified by overriding reasons relating to the public interest, bringing forward ideas on how to overcome these challenges where necessary and report on that in 2017;
2016/02/26
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 266 #

2015/2354(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
22. Emphasises that it is necessary to reinforce the Solvit network and to improve awareness of the network and its role in solving interpretation problems relating to the single market; calls on the Commission to strengthen its efforts in helping Member States to solve the most problematic cases;
2016/02/26
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 273 #

2015/2354(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
23. Takes noteRegrets that the mutual recognition principle is not applied properly by many Member States; takes note, in this respect, of the Commission proposal, as part of strengthening the single market for goods, to improve mutual recognition through action to increase awareness of the mutual recognition principle and through the revision of the Mutual Recognition Regulation; emphasises that if the mutual recognition principle was applied properly by competent authorities throughout the EU, businesses would be able to focus strictly on doing business and boosting the EU’s growth and not on striving to overcome various hurdles imposed by not respecting mutual recognition by Member States;
2016/02/26
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 287 #

2015/2354(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
24. Reiterates its call for the rapid adoption of the Product Safety and Market Surveillance Package by the Council; underlines the importance of the indication of country of origin, which is crucial to protect consumers and to strengthen the fight against counterfeiting;
2016/02/26
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 299 #

2015/2354(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
25. Stresses that regulatory differences between Member States regarding differing labelling requirements create unnecessary obstacles to the activities of suppliers of goods; calls on the Commission to consider introducing a mandatory scheme for the provision of key information for furniture, established at EU level; considers that such an initiative would be beneficial for consumers, industries and trade operators, ensuring transparency, adequate recognition of European products and harmonised rules for operators in the single market;
2016/02/26
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 379 #

2015/2354(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 a (new)
30a. Calls the Commission to strengthen its efforts to identify possible infringements of EU law by Member States on a very early stage and to take a firm stance against any legislative measures, adopted or being proceeded in national parliaments, that could increase the fragmentation of the single market;
2016/02/26
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 33 #

2015/2346(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Realises that despite the removal of tariff barriers since 1 July 1968, the free movement of goods and services has continued to be hampered by non-tariff barriers (NTBs) such as national technical rules and requirements governing products and, service providers and terms of service providerssion;
2016/01/28
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 43 #

2015/2346(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. RecognisesEmphasizes that generally the Member States should respect the rule that there should be no NTBs in the EU's single market; respects however that national- level differences may emerge owing to multi- level governance, leading to internal NTBs within a Member State; believes that the need for measures to be proportionate and in furtherance of legitimate public policy objectives should be well- understood at all levels of regulatory decision-making;
2016/01/28
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 47 #

2015/2346(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Believes that where such NTBs can be justified as proportionate, information on differing national regulatory requirements should be easily accessible; considers that the present system built around a diverse range of contact points, including Product Contact Points and Single Points of Contact, is deeply unsatisfactory; urges the Commission and the Member States to place greater emphasis on streamlining and improving these systems, understanding that by being more open and accessible as regards regulatory requirements their Member State becomes more attractive for inward investment; recognizes that the Single Digital Gateway initiative announced in the European Commission's Digital Single Market Communication represents a positive step in opening in this regard;
2016/01/28
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 66 #

2015/2346(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
6. Believes that the objective of the Union should be the eventual abolition of NTBs where they cannot be justified, as they are i.e. disproportionate, unnecessary or out of date;
2016/01/28
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 84 #

2015/2346(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Draws attention to the issue of ‘gold- plating’, i.e. the tendency of national governments to load transposed directives with additional rules that add to business burdens and costs; invites the Commission to present in 2016 an action plan to limit 'gold-plating' to a bare minimum to prevent fragmentation of the single market;
2016/01/28
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 85 #

2015/2346(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Draws attention to the fact the intensity and number of controls that have been recently put on foreign service providers is growing; calls on Member States to make sure that these controls are proportionate, justified and non- discriminatory;
2016/01/28
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 122 #

2015/2346(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
17. Calls on the Commission to focus on ground-level enforcement, making sure that rules are followed in the Member States and that no new rules contradicting the existing EU legal framework are introduced;
2016/01/28
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 128 #

2015/2346(INI)

19. Highlights that many businesses are not aware of mutual recognition principle and believe that they have to comply with national requirements in the Member State of destination when trading in the single market; underlines that if the principle was applied properly by competent authorities, businesses would be able to focus on doing business and boosting the EU's growth and not on striving with overcoming the hurdles imposed by not respecting mutual recognition by Member States;
2016/01/28
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 136 #

2015/2346(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Recognizing that different VAT regimes across the European Union might be perceived as a NTB, underlines that the VATMOSS is a good way to support overcoming this barrier and support especially SMEs in their cross-border activity; acknowledging that still some minor problematic issues concerning the VATMOSS remain, calls on the Commission to further facilitate paying VAT obligations by companies across the EU;
2016/01/28
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 137 #

2015/2346(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
21. Draws attention to the problems for service providers, especially in business services and construction, stemming from multiple authorisations, registration or, prior notification requirements or de facto establishment requirements; underlines that this might lead to discrimination against foreign service providers which would contradict the principle of free movement of services; calls in this context for a more developed e-administration and electronic registration in order to simplify the process for the service providers;
2016/01/28
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 151 #

2015/2346(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
23. Emphasises that the notification obligation contained in the Services Directive could have been effective in reducing or eliminating NTBs, but has been neglected in many cases by Member States and the Commission; welcomes, therefore, the renewed focus on the notification procedure in the Single Market Strategy, as through early engagement as regards proposed regulatory measures, disproportionate national measures can be revised to resolve issues before they occur; emphasizes the positive experience with the notification procedure for products and suggests this should be used as an example for improving the procedure for services;
2016/01/28
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 161 #

2015/2346(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Fears that the European Commission plans to introduce the principle of "equal pay for equal work in the same place" in the case of posting could further disintegrate the Internal Market for Services and constitute an additional NTB for foreign service providers;
2016/01/28
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 194 #

2015/2346(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 a (new)
31a. Emphasizes that especially the lack of implementation and diverging application of the Services Directive is hampering the single market;
2016/01/28
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 195 #

2015/2346(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
32. Calls on the Commission to present in 2016 a comprehensive overview of NTBs in the single market, taking into consideration the difference between an NTB and ameasures reflecting the legitimate public policy objective of a Member States, including an ambitious proposal to eliminate these NTBs as soon as possible in order to unleash the still untapped potential of the single market;
2016/01/28
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 200 #

2015/2346(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 a (new)
32a. Calls on the Commission to, firstly, ensure that Member States respect the already existing rules concerning the single market rather than create new, additional pieces of legislation on matters already covered by the already existing rules;
2016/01/28
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 30 #

2015/2344(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital A
A. whereas the Treaty on European Union establishes the creation of the single market, whose currency is the euro; whereas the Europeconomic and Monetary Union of the European Union currently consists of 19 m28 Members, two of whom States, out of these only 19 Member States shavre opt-out clauses, the remaining seven EU Member States having yet to join; whereasthe common currency and form part of the euro area; whereas of the nine Member States whose currency is not the euro, one Member has an opt-out and one Member has an opt-in from joining the common currency and no financial liability will be incurred by the twose countries with opt-outs from EMU in the framework of any fiscal capacity for the euro area; whereas the remaining seven EU Member States are bound by their Treaties of Accession to the European Union to join the common currency once they fulfil the necessary criteria;
2016/06/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 56 #

2015/2344(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital C
C. whereas contrary to the budgetary arrangements in all otherfederations and understanding that the EU is not a federations per se, the EU budget, is dependent on contributions from Member State level to EU level;
2016/06/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 64 #

2015/2344(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital D
D. whereas keeping the Balance of Payments Facility for non-euroArticle 123 and 125 TFEU were put in place to avoid and prevent moral hazard and ensure fiscal sustainability and prudency of euro area Member States; while depriving euro area Member States of this instrument as a consequence of the no-bail-out clause reflects one of the original flaws of EMUereas the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) constitutes the crisis resolution mechanism for countries of the euro area and has the function of a shock absorbent; whereas non-euro area Member States are not covered by the ESM but by the Balance of Payment Facility which supports non- euro countries in difficulties or when seriously threatened with difficulties as regards its balance of payments, as laid down in Article 143 TFEU, as non-euro countries experience higher risks due to exchange rate fluctuations;
2016/06/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 69 #

2015/2344(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital E
E. whereas it became apparent during the sovereign debt crisis that the European Treaties do not provide the euro area with the instruments to deal effectively with shocks; countries which did not comply with the fiscal rules of the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP), which did not budget responsibly but triggered large budget deficits through high spending and had postponed relevant reforms of their labour markets and public administration, were more vulnerable and could not effectively handle economic shocks; whereas it became apparent that the lack of responsibility of one Member of the euro area is a risk for the euro area as a whole, meaning that one country not adhering to the rules can affect the economy of all Member States of the Union; whereas the currency union is only as strong as its Members, which requires all participating countries to respect economic and financial rules at national level and at the same time to strengthen their economies in their own interest and in that of the whole euro area, thus guaranteeing the well-being of all citizens in the long-term, as the consequences of irresponsible policies at national level have to be borne by the Union as a whole;
2016/06/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 84 #

2015/2344(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital F
F. whereas, following real convergence in the run-up to the introduction of the common currency, the euro area witnessed structural divergence between 1999 and 2009, which made the euro area as a whole less resilient to shock the lack of necessary fiscal discipline, weak compliance with, and weak enforcement of, EU fiscal rules have led to excessive borrowing and sovereign debt crisis in some Member States; whereas regulatory adjustments and structural reforms aimed at reducing risks and improvimproving compliance and enhancing convergence have been introduced since 2009 at both European and national level, but some euro area Member States still require solidarity and sustainable reforms in their catching- up process;
2016/06/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 101 #

2015/2344(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas some Member States dramatically lack the willingness to implement the Country Specific Recommendations, given on the yearly basis by the Commission, and, hence, undermine the economic growth that the EU currently strives for;
2016/06/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 112 #

2015/2344(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital I
I. whereas Member States that failed to adhere to the SGP and enforce fiscal rules at national level have lost credibility of financial markets and herewith the possibility to finance themselves and a great deal of trust has been lost in the process, both between Member States and on the part of citizens and the markets in the EU institutions and the Union as a whole;
2016/06/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 155 #

2015/2344(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Considers, against this background, that shortcomings have existed in the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) since its inception under the Maastricht Treaty, with the attribution of monetary policy to the European level, while and budgetary policyies remainsing within the competencies of the Member States and is only framed by provisions on light coordination of national policie, including weak enforcement of the provisions of Stability and Growth, lack of effective banking regulation at European level, lack of euro area-wide stability mechanism and absence of strong incentives to implement necessary structural reforms;
2016/06/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 165 #

2015/2344(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses that the introduction of the euro as a common currency has eliminated tried and tested policy options for counterbalancing asymmetric shocks such as exchange rate fluctuation; reiterates that the relinquishing of autonomy over monetary policy therefore requires alternative adjustment mechanisms to cope with asymmetric macroeconomic shocks in order to make the euro zone an optimal currency area able, inter alia, to implement a proper policy mix; emphasises however that the three percent deficit rule under the enhanced Stability and Growth Pact provides sufficient fiscal space to cope with asymmetric shocks, under condition that EU Member States strictly observe the structural budgetary balance rule in the medium term;
2016/06/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 179 #

2015/2344(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Considers that EMU exposed its vulnerability in the context of the global financial and economic crisis when unsustainable imbalancthe causes of the sovereign debt crisis were mainly unsustainable levels of public and private debt, lack of competitiveness and proper regulation in the banking and financial sectors; underlines, triggered by capital flows fhat high levels of debt limited the space of manoeuvre for eurom core euro area nations to the periphery and a rising public spending ratio in some Member States, aggravated and led to a sovereuntries and led to an increase in financing costs, which impeded the repayment of debt at maturity; stresses that high costs of servicing debt due to high interest rates were too big of a burden given the overall debt level of some euro countries; whereas too hignh debt crisis, in which government borrowing costs dramatically increased in some Member States, jeopardising, in the absence of a proper fiscal backstop, the merelevels entail high interest rates which have to be served instead of being able to invest in growth enhancing measures, social spending, healthcare and education; whereas the causes of the crises differed in existence of thet among euro area Member States;
2016/06/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 204 #

2015/2344(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
6. Points out that the crisis has proved that a common monetary policy without a commonin the monetary union is generally able to deal with symmetric shocks; insists that it is up to national fiscal policy cannot addressd flexible national labour markets to accommodate asymmetric shocks to the euro area Member States; reiterates that mereweak coordination of national fiscal policies without credible enforcement mechanisms has not prevented an investment gap, has proved insufficient to trigger growth-enhancing, sustainable and socially balanced structural reforms and has not enhanced the national capacity to absorbled to large fiscal deficits and growing public debt, thus depriving Member States of the necessary fiscal space and structural flexibility required to absorb asymmetric economic shocks;
2016/06/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 235 #

2015/2344(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Acknowledges the results achieved since the crisis broke in terms of risk reduction and better coordination; points in particular to the many measures taken by the EU institutions to address the shortcomings revealed by the crisis by strengthening coordination of national fiscal policies, in particular via the adoption of the Six-Pack and, the Two- Pack and the Fiscal Compact Regulations; welcomes further the fact that the EU institutions have set up frameworks for action in current and future crises, namely by creating the European Financial Stability Mechanism (EFSM), the temporary European Financial Stabilisation Facility (EFSF) and its permanent successor, the European Stability Mechanism (ESM); underlines, however, that these mechanisms dramatically lackneed more democratic oversight and parliamentary control, and hence ownership;
2016/06/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 243 #

2015/2344(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. RecallNotes that in 2012 the Commission introduced in its ‘Blueprint for a deep and genuine EMU’ the idea of a Convergence and Competitiveness instrument for euro area Member States, whereby euro area Member States could get financial support for ‘reform packages that are agreed and important both for the Member States and for the good functioning of the euro area’, and that this financial support ‘could be set up in principle as part of the EU budget’ and be established by secondary law on the basis of Article 352 TFEU and financed by either a commitment on the part of the euro area Member States or a legal obligation to that effect enshrined in the EU’s own resources legislation as ‘assigned revenues’; considers the review by the Commission of the European Semester, including the Structural Reform Support Programme (SRSP), as a follow-up to this approach; however, points out in this context to the serious risk of moral hazard and to potentially distorted incentives, in fact encouraging Member States to wait with necessary reforms until financial support from the EU is secured; therefore, if this idea is to be implemented, strong safeguards against potential moral hazard need to be included;
2016/06/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 277 #

2015/2344(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. Believes that in order to regain trust, the euro must deliver on its promise of stability, convergence, growth and jobs; regards a fiscal capacity aenhanced fiscal sustainability and structural reforms as vital elements in this enterprise, which can be successful only if solidarity is closely linked to responsibility, meaning that financial support is provided on the basis of clear criteria;
2016/06/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 300 #

2015/2344(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
14. Takes the view that incentives for sound fiscal policymaking and for addressing structural weaknesses at national level, taking into account the aggregate euro area fiscal stance, are core elements for the functioning of the euro area; considers that a fiscal capacity should, moreover, address specific concerns for the euro area in be an instrument of last resort, and be activated only in case of large asymmetric shocks theat case of absorbing shocksnnot be fully absorbed by responsible national fiscal policy;
2016/06/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 315 #

2015/2344(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Stresses that if a fiscal capacity mustis to be created, it should be in addition and on top of the existing EU funding insbudget and without any detruiments, to it, and within its legal framework, in order to ensure consistent development between euro and non-euro Member States; Emphasizes that the planned EU funding instruments should be addressed to all EU Member States so that they are consistent with the fundamental values of the European integration such as the Single Market and should not undermine the competitiveness of the EU Member States as well as the EU as a whole;
2016/06/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 346 #

2015/2344(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
17. Considers that three different functions have to be fulfilled; argues, first, that in order to foster economic and social convergence within the euro area and to improve the economic competitiveness and resilience of the euro area, Member States' structural reforms should be incentivised in good economic times; argues, secondly, that differences in thmore efforts have to be made to stabilise business cycle movements of euro area Member States stemming from structural differences create the need for an instrument to address asymmetric shocks; considers, thirdly, that symmetric shocks should be addressed so as to increase the resilience of the euro area as a wholeover time, since business cycle fluctuations across euro countries are highly correlated, but differ in variance, which explains why shocks in the euro area are of a more symmetric nature with differences in the boom-bust dynamics of growth rates in individual Member States, especially experienced by euro countries of the periphery; considers, thirdly, that symmetric shocks should be addressed at national level, while respecting the SGP and maintaining budgetary discipline, by making economies more competitive so as to increase the resilience of the euro area as a whole; adds that in the reform of the SGP in 2005, the European Council asked EU Member States to strengthen their domestic fiscal governance through fiscal rules and institutions at national level and further reinforced national fiscal frameworks following the adoption of the Budgetary Frameworks Directive, the Fiscal Compact and the Two-Pack;
2016/06/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 362 #

2015/2344(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Insists that if a fiscal capacity is to be created, it could be activated to address symmetric shocks only when national fiscal policies have been used to its full potential and only when Member States observe the EU fiscal rules, including the Medium Term Objective;
2016/06/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 392 #

2015/2344(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
19. Demands that the ESM be integrated into the Union’s legal framework and evolve towards a Community mechanism, as provided for in the ESM Treaty and as constantly requested by the European Parliament and foreseen in the Five Presidents’ report; underlines that the ECJ Pringle case-law and jurisprudence open up the possibility of bringing the ESM within the Union’s framework, within the existing Treaties, on the basis of Article 352 TFEU; calls, therefore, on the Commission to bring forward as a matter of urgencyfirstly conduct a complex study on that issue as well as start a deep and fact-based political discussion on the matter, and only then bring forward a legislative proposal to that end; demands that the ESM be made fully accountable to the European Parliament;
2016/06/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 402 #

2015/2344(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
20. Calls for the ESM, whilst fulfilling its ongoing tasks, to be further developed and turned into a European Monetary Fund (EMF) with adequate lending and borrowing capacities and a clearly defined mandate, including its contribution to a euro area fiscal capacity; stresses that an EMF should be managed by the Commission and held democratically accountable by the European Parliament; emphasises that national parliaments would be involved in the process, given that their constitutional prerogatives regarding financial resources could be affected;deleted
2016/06/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 457 #

2015/2344(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
23. Believes that compliance with a convergence code should be the condition for access to funding from the ESM/EMF; reiterates its call on the Commission to put forward a legislative proposal to this end;
2016/06/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 479 #

2015/2344(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
24. Stresses that significant progress in convergence and sustainable structural reforms is needed in order to reconcile fiscal consolidation, growth, jobs, productivity, competitiveness and the European social model so as to effectively prevent asymmetric shock; considers that financial support from the European level for the implementation of agreed structural reforms in the Member States, while keeping the responsibility for implementation at the national level, is therefore indispensable;
2016/06/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 485 #

2015/2344(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Suggests that reforms advocated in the CSRs can be incentivised through financial and technical assistance facilitated by a fiscal capacity without Treaty change and therefore be realisable in the short-term; considers that fundamental attention should be given to the CSRs, which already emphasize thoroughly the areas in need of reform, however, since the implementation rate of these measures is not satisfactory and recent reflections have not yielded to any significant tools able to improve it, the fiscal capacity could leverage the transposition of CSRs by providing positive incentives in form of financial assistance for Member States to implement reforms, especially in years of economic growth; stresses that no compensation should be granted to countries that did not pursue budgetary discipline and postponed necessary reforms; emphasizes that convergence towards the level of the most competitive countries in the euro area should be fostered through reforms that are conducive to more investment, profitable projects, productivity enhancing and have the objective of reaching full employment;
2016/06/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 491 #

2015/2344(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
25. Reiterates its call for the adoption of a ‘convergence code’, as a legal act resulting from the ordinary legislative procedure, to streamline the existing coordination of economic policies into a more effective convergence of economic policies within the European Semester;deleted
2016/06/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 503 #

2015/2344(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
26. Suggests that the convergence code define criteria to be reached within five years, building on the merits of the Maastricht criteria and focusing for the first period on convergence requirements regarding: - taxation: base and rate of corporate tax, - labour market, including minimum wages, - investment, notably in research and development; This five-year period should in exchange allow for a phasing-in of the new tasks attributed to the ESM/EMF;deleted
2016/06/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 520 #

2015/2344(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 – indent 1
– taxation: base and rate of corporate tax,deleted
2016/06/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 530 #

2015/2344(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 – indent 2
– labour market, including minimum wages,deleted
2016/06/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 545 #

2015/2344(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 – indent 3
– investment, notably in research and development; This five-year period should in exchange allow for a phasing-in of the new tasks attributed to the ESM/EMF;deleted
2016/06/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 580 #

2015/2344(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
27. Considers that a financial instrument is needed to work as an incentive-based mechanism for convergence and sustainable structural reforms with clear conditionality; believes that the Structural Reform Support Programme (SRSP) proposed by the Commission, which is designed to provide technical support to national authorities in all member states for measures aimed at reforming institutions, governance, administration, and economic and social sectors with a view to enhancing growth and jobs, can be further developed asould possibly provide a contribution to this function of the fiscal capacity;
2016/06/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 599 #

2015/2344(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
28. Is convinced that increased convergence within the euro area will significantly increase the capacity of its Member States to absreduce the scope forb asymmetric shocks within the euro area; believes, however, that no matter how great the efforts regarding convergence and sustainable structural reforms, asymmetric shocks with an impact on the stability of the euro area as a whole cannot be ruled out completely, given the strong integration of the euro area Member States; stresses, therefore, the need to have an instrument availablmaintain fiscal position close to balance for this emergency which provides an immediate stabilisation effectin surplus in the medium term, in order to ensure the necessary fiscal buffers are available to address this emergency;
2016/06/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 635 #

2015/2344(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
30. Points out that the Rainy Day Fund should be funded by all thethe euro area Member States on the basis of a cyclically sensitive economic indicator and used for payments to all Member States suffering from economic downturns;
2016/06/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 668 #

2015/2344(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
32. Considers that the EMF should provide the financial resources fNotes that if a fiscal capacity is created, it could support either of these models, which cwould, however, require increasing the amount of capital; points out that the fund should avoid long-term redistribution effects by ensuringinsists that in any case long-term redistribution effects between Member States should be avoided, and Member States' contributions arshould be balanced over the cycle;
2016/06/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 687 #

2015/2344(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
33. WarnsIs convinced that future symmetric shocks could destabilise the euro area as a whole since the currency area is not endowed with the instruments to cope with another crisis of the extent of the previous one; is convinced that the right instrument to deal with symmetric shocks depends on the nature of the shock; recalls that the EMF should be used as an appropriate financial resourcehave to be addressed by a combination of common monetary policy and national fiscal policies; is confident that recent reforms of the economic governance in the EU together with increased national ownership of EU fiscal rules provide strong safeguards against irresponsible fiscal policies;
2016/06/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 748 #

2015/2344(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37
37. Points out that if the fiscal capacity has to be of significant size in orderis to be able to address these euro-area-wide shocks and to finance its functions, it has to be of significant size; insists that in order to provide sufficient financial resources, the euro area fiscal capacity, including the EMF, should be able to increase the issuance of equitiesdebt via a rise in guarantees; considers that these commonly issued equitiesdebt should have the highest credit rate;
2016/06/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 785 #

2015/2344(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 41
41. Considers that in order to provide for a genuine EMU, a euro area treasury should be created for collective decision- making, supervision and management of the budgetary capacity for the euro area; calls for the inclusion of this treasury within the European Commission with full macroeconomic, fiscal and financial competences; calls for a vice-president of the European Commission to head the treasury and simultaneously to act as president of the Eurogroup; urges full accountability of this treasury to the European Parliament;deleted
2016/06/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 807 #

2015/2344(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42
42. Considers that those non-euro countries that do not have an opt-out will eventually become part of the EMU and therefore may join the governance framework on a voluntary basis with a special statuEmphasizes that the seven EU Member States that do not have an opt-out or opt-in from joining the common currency, but are bound to join the euro area by their Treaties of Accession to the European Union, should have full rights of participating in the governance structure of any fiscal capacity, be able to contribute and benefit financially, receive technical and financial assistance in transposing needed structural reforms in their countries, thereby making their economies more competitive especially vis-à-vis current euro area Member States, increasing resilience, thus ensuring the sound transition into the euro area and avoid economic and financial crises in the future by fostering a stronger euro area with stronger Member States;
2016/06/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 4 #

2015/2285(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 13
– having regard to the Commission communication of 103 February 2015 on making the best use of the flexibility within the existing rules of the stability and growth pact (COM(2015)0012),
2016/01/12
Committee: ECON
Amendment 65 #

2015/2285(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the 2016 Annual Growth Survey package and the proposed policy mix of investment, structural reform and fiscal responsibility, with increased emphasis on domestic demand and convergence, complementing accommodative monetary policies; Welcomes the fact that the document aims to further promote higher growth levels within the EU and to strengthen European recovery;
2016/01/12
Committee: ECON
Amendment 90 #

2015/2285(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that Europe’s global competitiveness remains an important objective, while the worsening global outlook calls for strengthening domestic sources of growth by, in particular, enhancing innovation-driven efficiency and keeping labour costs in line with productivity;
2016/01/12
Committee: ECON
Amendment 112 #

2015/2285(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Is encouraged by mild improvements in labour market indicators; calls for more efficient efforts to reduce poverty, social exclusion and growing inequalities, while respecting budgetary discipline;
2016/01/12
Committee: ECON
Amendment 138 #

2015/2285(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Calls for the European Fund for Strategic Investments to be used to maximum effect to support higher-risk projects not financed otherwise, and to promote growth, job creation and cohesion; welcomes the principle of using public money to leverage and attract additional private capital; Underlines that EFSI can only be used at its best potential if it is accompanied by ambitious structural reforms in Member States;
2016/01/12
Committee: ECON
Amendment 160 #

2015/2285(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Is aware of the ongoing deleveraging process in the private sector; points to the importance of completing the banking union and boosting equity investments in SMEs; Agrees with the Commission that in order to improve the investment environment, a greater regulatory predictability within the EU has to be provided;
2016/01/12
Committee: ECON
Amendment 172 #

2015/2285(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Emphasises that the lack of investment is caused by low market confidence, Member States’ high indebtedness, slow deleveraging and subdued expectation of demand; Perceives the EFSI as an instrument that, if used correctly and followed by ambitious structural reforms in Member States, will attract investors and restore confidence;
2016/01/12
Committee: ECON
Amendment 173 #

2015/2285(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Underlines that a lack of access to finance, particularly for SMEs, is one of the greatest obstacles to growth in the EU; Believes that alternatives to bank financing are needed, especially by improving the business environment for venture capital but also by improving efficient allocation of capital through capital markets; Welcomes therefore the Commission’s Communications on Capital Markets Union Action Plan and the Single Market Strategy as correct steps in improving the growth and investment potential within the EU;
2016/01/12
Committee: ECON
Amendment 174 #

2015/2285(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Highlights the importance of investments in human capital and other social investments, alongside reforms of the labour markets; Emphasises the need to invest in education and skills in order to give additional impulses for EU citizens to further develop; Stresses in particular the need to improve national education systems and adapt them to the new skill and knowledge demands on the EU labour market; Is concerned by the increased skill mismatches in many sectors and regions throughout the EU;
2016/01/12
Committee: ECON
Amendment 191 #

2015/2285(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Underlines the importance to maintain a balance between social expenditure and further investment in projects that bring growth in the long- run; States that too high social expenditure and current expenditure in several countries, instead of investing in projects focusing on research and innovation, might further anchor them within a middle income trap; Therefore, calls on the Member States to find an efficient balance between social expenditure and investment within public budgets;
2016/01/12
Committee: ECON
Amendment 202 #

2015/2285(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. Considers that, after a long period of macroeconominalc adjustment, focus should be put on ambitious structural reforms and investments aimed at strengthening growth potential, promoting fair and sustainable and efficient welfare systems and reducing social inequalities, while respecting budgetary sustainability;
2016/01/12
Committee: ECON
Amendment 211 #

2015/2285(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. Calls for product and service market reforms and better regulation, promoting innovation and quality-based competition; Believes that the Member States and the Commission have not yet delivered on their commitment to complete a truly Single Market; Understanding the streamlined approach of the Commission towards the European Semester and the CSRs, calls on the Commission to pay more attention to the Single Market - as the backbone of the European project - in its AGS and CSRs;
2016/01/12
Committee: ECON
Amendment 227 #

2015/2285(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Highlights the importance of greater resource and energy efficiency, including through the development of the circular economy; Underlines, therefore, the importance to further develop a true Energy Union based on solidarity, efficiency and diversity while not ignoring indigenous energy sources;
2016/01/12
Committee: ECON
Amendment 236 #

2015/2285(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
14. Urges that further steps be taken towards resilientsupporting labour markets with reduced segmentation and sustainable welfare systems with increased focus on social investment; Highlights, in this respect, the importance of flexible labour markets in combatting unemployment, in particular the negative impact on job creation of rigid rules on dismissal and of wage levels not following productivity levels;
2016/01/12
Committee: ECON
Amendment 243 #

2015/2285(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Emphasises the previous calls by the Parliament on the Member States to make their labour markets more efficient; In this respect, emphasises the need for the Member States to modernise social protection systems, including pensions and to improve and streamline the legal and environment for business investment;
2016/01/12
Committee: ECON
Amendment 251 #

2015/2285(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Emphasises the need for modern, efficient and citizen-friendly public administration; stresses the importance of further steps towards a true e- administration in and amongst Member States; Welcomes, in this context, the Commission’s view that the quality, independence and efficiency of Member States’ judiciary systems is a prerequisite for and investment and business friendly environment;
2016/01/12
Committee: ECON
Amendment 278 #

2015/2285(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
18. Reiterates the need for responsible fiscal policies, taking into account debt sustainability, the economic cycle and investment gaps; Is concerned that very high indebtedness of some Member States constitutes a substantial risk in case of possible future shocks within the euro area and hampers growth within the whole European Union;
2016/01/12
Committee: ECON
Amendment 302 #

2015/2285(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
19. Insists on a strict implementation of the Stability and Growth Pact, while making use of available fiscal spaceflexibility within the SGP, inter alia, to deal with security threats and refugee inflows; Stresses that the reformed economic governance framework of the EU is an efficient and ambitious tool to deal with the current economic and budgetary challenges; States that for the time being, the current economic governance framework should not be reformed but used to its best;
2016/01/12
Committee: ECON
Amendment 307 #

2015/2285(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
20. Emphasises the need for improved tax collection, fighting tax evasion and avoidance and improved tax policy coordination within the EU; Calls for tax systems that are simple and transparent in order to increase tax collection;
2016/01/12
Committee: ECON
Amendment 354 #

2015/2285(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Underlines that for the sake of the integrity of the whole European Union, steps towards any type of a separate euro area treasury with its own budget should not be taken in the short to medium term;
2016/01/12
Committee: ECON
Amendment 357 #

2015/2285(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 b (new)
23b. Calls for further strengthening of the coordination of national policies in the euro area in order to prevent negative spill-over effects of inadequately designed national policies into other Member States;
2016/01/12
Committee: ECON
Amendment 358 #

2015/2285(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 c (new)
23c. Agrees with the Commission that Member States and the EU as a whole should further pursue structural reforms to modernise the economies; Welcomes the Commission's priority for many Member States to continue growth- friendly fiscal consolidation;
2016/01/12
Committee: ECON
Amendment 434 #

2015/2285(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
30. Believes that better implementation of country-specific recommendations requires clearly articulated priorities at European level and genuine public debate at national level, leading to greater relevance and ownership; Welcomes, in this respect, the hitherto visits of members of the Commission in Member States in order to discuss the European Semester process and its documents; States, however, that further steps in order to increase the European Semester's national ownership should be taken;
2016/01/12
Committee: ECON
Amendment 469 #

2015/2285(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
35. Urges the Commission to launch negotiations on an interinstitutional agreement on economic governance, as suggested in the Five Presidents’ Report;deleted
2016/01/12
Committee: ECON
Amendment 1 #

2015/2256(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 4 a (new)
– having regard to its Report on the European Semester for economic policy coordination: Annual Growth Survey 2015 (2014/2221(INI))
2015/12/17
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 34 #

2015/2256(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Underlines that the Single Market (SM) is the backbone of Member States’ economies and the European integration project as a whole; highlights the economic benefits of the SM, such as product and market integration, economies of scale, stronger competition, and a level playing field for 500 million citizens across the 28 Member States, providing greater choice and lower prices for consumers;
2015/12/17
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 50 #

2015/2256(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Is concerned that the level of implementation of European Semester recommendations for 2011-2014 was weak and even declining; Therefore, calls on the Commission to propose a mechanism encouraging countries to implement CSRs;
2015/12/17
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 52 #

2015/2256(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Welcoming that the new European Semester process was streamlined by the Commission and understanding that the number of CSRs declined in order to propose recommendations more focused on countries' priorities, notes that the Annual Growth Survey pays more attention to the Single Market issues than the CSRs;
2015/12/17
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 68 #

2015/2256(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses that any review process of the European Semester must allow for proper involvement of the European Parliament, as well as national and regional parliaments and all relevant stakeholdernot only to increase the ownership of the European Semester but also to increase the level of implementation of the CSRs;
2015/12/17
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 82 #

2015/2256(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Stresses that despite the lack of straightforward tariff barriers in the Single Market, a vast number of various non-tariff barriers do exist; Encourages the European institutions, Member States and all relevant stakeholders to launch a constructive debate on this issue in order to overcome the non-tariff obstacles within the EU;
2015/12/17
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 101 #

2015/2256(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
14. Stresses that the public sector and public procurement are critical drivers of both Member State and business growth, job creation and competitiveness (representing more than 19 % of EU GDP expenditure); Stresses the need to further liberalize public procurement in Member States;
2015/12/17
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 142 #

2015/2256(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
24. Welcomes new business models emerging under the collaborative economy, creating a clear opportunity for growth, jobs and a wider choice for consumers and entrepreneurs; Calls on the Commission to take a strategic approach to enable sharing economy businesses to compete with traditional businesses in a fair environment;
2015/12/17
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 146 #

2015/2256(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Welcomes the Single Market Strategy sketching how various actions of the Commission (Capital Markets Union, Digital Single Market, Energy Union, etc.) are focused towards a main goal - to untap the potential of the EU's Single Market; Underlines that the Single Market Strategy Communication finds that the Single Market should be more addressed in the European Semester process;
2015/12/17
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 169 #

2015/2256(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33 a (new)
33a. Calls on the Commission to issue an annual report on the Single Market barriers in various member states and the EU as a whole and in the CSRs to issue recommendations focused on removing them; Stresses that the Single Market should play a more important role in the CSRs;
2015/12/17
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 59 #

2015/2210(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes the Commission's new approach to streamlining the European Semester process, i.e. through placing a stronger focus on a limited number of most important priorities and challenges and publishing its country-specific and euro area analysis three months earlier than in previous years; taking into account the new time line of the European Semester, calls on Member States to involve national parliaments as well as local and regional authorities in a more structured manner while engaging stakeholders;
2015/09/11
Committee: ECON
Amendment 71 #

2015/2210(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Notes with concern the varying degrees of commitment demonstrated by Member States to implementing last year's CSRs; stresses the importance of the implementation of the CSRs in order to ensure consistent and fair implementation of the economic governance framework across Member States; deplorunderlines in this context the non-binding nature of the recommendationat the Commission has some possibilities to sanction Member States not fulfilling the CSRs and should use them; calls on the Commission to consider a possibility to introduce a mechanism encouraging Member States to implement the CSRs;
2015/09/11
Committee: ECON
Amendment 120 #

2015/2210(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Welcomes the entry into force of the regulation on the European Fund for Strategic Investment (EFSI), aimed at boosting private investment in the EU, and calls on all relevant stakeholders to ensure its swift and effective implementation; calls Member States to closely involve their local and regional authorities in promoting project pipelines and investment platforms;
2015/09/11
Committee: ECON
Amendment 155 #

2015/2210(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Stresses the importance of access to finance for enterprises, in particular for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which constitute the backbone of the EU economy; points out the failure of currently low interest rates to boost investment; underlines the potential of the Capital Markets Union project to address these issues and calls on the Commission to duly take the needs of SMEs into account in the design of the future CMU;
2015/09/11
Committee: ECON
Amendment 166 #

2015/2210(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. Underlines the need to improve the EU's business environment as well as to raise productivity levels; stresses that the EU's economy is suffering from a lack of innovation while innovation is key to growth and productivity and that fostering innovation is thus crucial in order to improve the international competitiveness of the EU; welcomes in this context the proposal, in the Five presidents' report on completing the EMU, of establishing a euro area system of competitiveness authorities; recalls the importance of sound business regulation for the success of the EFSI; calls, therefore, for the removal of administrative barriers, cuttingthe reduction of red tape and a reform of Member States' tax systems;
2015/09/11
Committee: ECON
Amendment 193 #

2015/2210(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Stresses the need for Member States to adapt their public finances by conducting a counter-cyclical policy when necessary and making full use of the existing flexibility clauses foreseen in the legislation; considers that Member States with high debt levels in particular must continue with growth-friendly fiscal consolidation and urgently implement the recommended structural reforms, while those with more fiscal space should use it to accelerate investment; stresses also the need for a better coordination between the EU, national and sub-national budgets;
2015/09/11
Committee: ECON
Amendment 249 #

2015/2210(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
16. Deplores the fact that the CSRs suffer from lack of ownership at national level and from a democratic accountability mechanism; calls, in this context, for an increased role for national parliaments, as well as for local and regional authorities, in the preparation of the National Reform Programmes (NRPs); underlines that the implementation of CSRs in political, legal and economic terms could be enhanced by a transparent cooperation between the Commission and the Member State that should start during the preparatory phase of the Annual Growth Survey and continue until the recommendations for specific countries are officially approved; stresses that increased ownership is a crucial factor for the successful implementation of the CSRs and, in the longer term, for the success of the Europe 2020 strategy;
2015/09/11
Committee: ECON
Amendment 258 #

2015/2210(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
17. Calls on the Commission to further streamline the European Semester and its current timetable in order to harmonise the mutual impact of national documents (NPRPs and Convergence/Stability Programmes) and documents prepared by the Commission (CSRs and Country Reports) so as to strengthen synergy and facilitate coordination of national policies;
2015/09/11
Committee: ECON
Amendment 285 #

2015/2210(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
19. Reiterates its call for the strengthening of the position of the Commission's Chief Economic Analyst (CEA), whose mandate is to verify independently the implementation of the EU governance rules within the European Semester; calls, in particular, for the CEA's analysis to be made public and for the establishment of a regular dialogue between the competent committee of Parliament and the CEA; notes also in this context that the Five Presidents' Report on completing EMU proposes the setting-up of a European Fiscal Board (EFB); underlines that all EU countries should be engaged in each stage of completing the EMU, so that the openness and transparency of the EMU reform process is guaranteed;
2015/09/11
Committee: ECON
Amendment 288 #

2015/2210(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. 'Welcomes the 5 Presidents' Report and the fact that the roadmap towards 'A More Integrated European Semester' is one of the main parts of the document; recognizes that the increasing interdependence among euro area Member States requires more coordination of national policies; admits that in order to successfully complete Europe's Economic and Monetary Union, the EU has to build four pillars of the Union - Financial, Economic, Fiscal and Political
2015/09/11
Committee: ECON
Amendment 4 #

2015/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that sustainable economic growth in Europe can only be achieved through productivity gains and developing sectors characterised by high added value; encourages in this sense all the efforts made by the Commission in supporting the transition towards a digital economy; considers it essential to remedy the current fragmentation of national rules on digital services and to build a more innovative and transparent Digital Single Market based on fair competition and providing a high level of consumer protection; calls on the Commission to comply with the planned schedule aimed at achieving a true Digital Single Market, in order to contribute to the EU's economic growth and improve its competitiveness;
2015/10/19
Committee: ECON
Amendment 31 #

2015/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Points out that, for the digital economy to flourish, access to capital for both new and existing enterprises must be improved; welcomes the work of the Commission on the Capital Markets Union; encourages further legislative harmonisationa key pillar of the Investment Plan, aiming to tackle investment shortages head-on by in acreas such as crowd-funding and digital currenciesing and diversifying the alternative funding sources for Europe's businesses and long-term projects including capital markets, venture capital and crowd- funding;
2015/10/19
Committee: ECON
Amendment 35 #

2015/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Points out that, for the digital economy to flourish, access to capital for both new and existing enterprises must be improved; in this respect involvement of financial instruments, such as venture capital for best projects is crucial; welcomes the work of the Commission on the Capital Markets Union; encourages further legislative harmonisation in areas such as crowd-funding and digital currencies;
2015/10/19
Committee: ECON
Amendment 49 #

2015/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
4. Considers that a coordination of cross- border taxation systems, while respecting the fact that tax-related issues are fully national competences, is needed to create a true European Single Market and to prevent the tax avoidance practices used by several digital platforms, as highlighted by recent inquiries; calls on the Commission to support extending the public country-by- country reporting regime on taxes for multinational companies to all sectors;; encourages the Commission to promote the digital economy which will provide greater transparency over tax-related information in order to prevent tax avoidance practices.
2015/10/19
Committee: ECON
Amendment 63 #

2015/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Reiterates the need for renewed efforts to combat fraud and tax avoidance and evasion, and therefore calls for more emphasis to be placed on good tax governance in the Single market; reminds that savings of EUR 9 billion per year could be generated through measures such as the standardisation of electronic invoices and coordination of cross-border tax systems; stresses therefore the need to strengthen and improve tax coordination, with due respect for national competences, so as to prevent unfair competition and market distortions and ensure equal opportunities in the Digital Single Market;
2015/10/19
Committee: ECON
Amendment 73 #

2015/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Underlines that there is a need for EU Single Market rules to be workable for the digital era, and that this entails implementation of Single Market rules for online payments, development of safe e- solutions Europe-wide (e.g. e-invoicing and digital signature), and clarifying VAT requirements where appropriate, in order to generate trust in e-commerce, improve the quality of information provided to European consumers about their rights, and ensure that the same level of protection is available to consumers online as that which they are used to in their traditional markets;
2015/10/19
Committee: ECON
Amendment 82 #

2015/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
5. Supports the Commission’s decision to review internet platforms; encourages the Commission to create a legislative framework ensuring the development of innovative ideas, protection of work standards and compliance with existing fiscal rules;
2015/10/19
Committee: ECON
Amendment 106 #

2015/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Welcomes the launch of the Public Consultation on Modernising VAT for cross-border e-commerce by the Commission in September 2015 and perceives it as a crucial first step in order to facilitate the way VAT is settled cross- border online transactions. Calls on the Commission to report and assess the results of this public consultation to the Parliament and a wider public after it ends.
2015/10/19
Committee: ECON
Amendment 108 #

2015/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Stresses that a thorough analysis of different types of 'Sharing Economy' platforms should be carried out, with a view to ensuring that relevant legislation allows the development of these services to enable new forms of consumption and production, while at the same time, guaranteeing high levels of consumer protection;
2015/10/19
Committee: ECON
Amendment 115 #

2015/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Notes that Commission launched, already in May, an antitrust competition inquiry into the e-commerce sector in the European Union; Supports the Commission's decision to launch a public debate with two public consultations: on geo-blocking and other geographically based restrictions when shopping and accessing information in the EU and on the regulatory environment for platforms, online intermediaries, data and cloud computing and the collaborative economy; Calls on the Commission to report to the European Parliament and general public in the first quarter of 2016 with the results of those consultations and preliminary findings of the e-commerce sector inquiry;
2015/10/19
Committee: ECON
Amendment 116 #

2015/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Stresses that the Commission must continue to enforce antitrust rules, particularly the Regulation on Vertical Restraints and the accompanying guidelines, to ensure that the special rules on selective distribution are not used to restrict the availability of products via online commerce channels and to prevent competition to the detriment of consumers;
2015/10/19
Committee: ECON
Amendment 118 #

2015/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6c. Calls on the Commission to prepare a bold proposal to review the VAT Directive (2006/112/EC) in order to make cross- border VAT system clearer and less burdensome for businesses, especially SMEs.
2015/10/19
Committee: ECON
Amendment 630 #

2015/2147(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 2.5 - Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Supports Commission's intention to extend the current single electronic registration and payment mechanism to intra-EU and 3rd country online sales of tangible goods and to introduce a common EU-wide simplification measure (VAT threshold) to help small start-up e- commerce businesses;
2015/10/21
Committee: ITREIMCO
Amendment 632 #

2015/2147(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 2.5 - Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Calls on the Commission to prepare a bold proposal to review the VAT Directive (2006/112/EC) in order to make cross-border VAT system clearer and less burdensome for businesses, especially SMEs;
2015/10/21
Committee: ITREIMCO
Amendment 2 #

2015/2132(BUD)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
1. Notes how the pace of economic recovery and long-term growth prospects in the EU are being affected by the slowdown in investment, reflecting in part budgetary constraints in the Member Stateshigh indebtedness of public sector in Member States, structural weaknesses as well as subdued expectations of demand; welcomes therefore the draft budget’s strong emphasis, in point 1.1, on creating fresh impetus for jobs, growth and investment; acknowledges the creation of a favourable environment for entrepreneurship as one of the main priorities of the draft budget;
2015/08/06
Committee: ECON
Amendment 12 #

2015/2132(BUD)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. Highlights the crucial role to be played by the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) in closing gaps not covered by the market and in attracting private investmentsmobilising new sources of finance for investment, boosting competitiveness and economic recovery, as well as increasing market confidence; welcomes the agreement reached by the co-legislators on the increase in contributions to the EFSI to EUR 3 billion, to be found from the overall budgetary margins in the period 2016 to 2020; reaffirms its determination to further reduce the budgetary impact on Horizon 2020 and the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF);
2015/08/06
Committee: ECON
Amendment 17 #

2015/2132(BUD)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Calls for the 2016 draft budget to reflect Parliament’s posEuropean Semester’s prioritiones including with regard to a more comprehensive analysis of individual Member States’ economic prospects within the framework of the European Semesterboosting investment, supporting job creation, pursuing structural reforms and fiscal consolidation that lead to real, sustainable growth;
2015/08/06
Committee: ECON
Amendment 25 #

2015/2132(BUD)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
5. Asks for the financing of a new pilot project entitled ‘Consumer Empowerment and Education in the Digital Single Market (DSM)’, contributing to a large public education campaign to support consumer and business understanding and appreciation of the challenges associated with e-commerce; stresses that this should help citizens and SMEs comply with consumer protection law in the online environment; emphasises that, in a truly connected DSM, every consumer should be able to trust the safety of products purchased online; considers that better compliance with the rules would reducincrease consumer problemstection and benefit traders by avoiding potential problems with the enforcement authorities; considers, in this respect, that traders should also gain information on how to settle their taxes from cross-border transactions within the EU, i.e. on how to efficiently use the VATMOSS system;
2015/07/14
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 26 #

2015/2132(BUD)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
4. Draws attention to the crucial role of the three European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) in relation to EU-level financial supervision and the banking union; emphasises that the 2016 draft budget must provide for a sufficient increase in budgetary resources for the ESAs to address the ever-increasing range of tasks being assigned to them, as well as external factors such as exchange rate fluctuations and general increases in levels of paycorresponding to the newly allocated roles of the agencies;
2015/08/06
Committee: ECON
Amendment 34 #

2015/2132(BUD)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
5. Highlights, in this regard, the need for the ESAs to be not only properly financed but also adequately staffed, both numerically and in terms of levels of qualification, to be able to perform the tasks assigned to them in a satisfactorhigh quality manner; to that end, calls on the Joint Committee of the European Supervisory Authorities to submit a report on the authorities’ future staffing needs;
2015/08/06
Committee: ECON
Amendment 36 #

2015/2132(BUD)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
6. Notes that the ESAs are currently financed from compulsory contributions by the national member authorities, money from the EU budget and charges payable by the institutions they supervise; finds it regrettable that this nationally oriented, mixed financing system is not used more extensively; renews its call to the Commission, therefore, to submit by 2017 aif proven by the Commission’s assessment, to proposal fore a financing concept that combines financing from a specific line in the general EU budget with charges payable by operators in marketsystem by 2017 that is solely based on the introduction of fees by market participants; sees this system as a means of securing both the European authorities’ independence from their national member authorities and the full integrity of the ESAs vis-à-vis financial market participants;
2015/08/06
Committee: ECON
Amendment 45 #

2015/2132(BUD)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Commission, when implementing the planned restructuring measures with regard to staff cuts, to focus on its main priorities; emphasises, in that regard, the need to increase staffing in the Directorate-General for Competition, and particularly the department responsible for state aid, so as to ensure that taxation practices in relation to tax rulings and other measures similar in nature or effect which are questionable under state aid rules can, in future, be properly investigated, thus helping to make corporate taxation in the European Union faireradequate staffing, to focus on its main priorities;
2015/08/06
Committee: ECON
Amendment 49 #

2015/2132(BUD)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
9. Highlights the need for more Europe- wide statistical data of as which are more comprehensive, meaningful and up-to-date naturethodological comparable, accurate and timely; welcomes, therefore, the provision in the draft budget for a substantialn increase in expenditure on applying new methods of generating European statistics and on enhanced cooperation within the European Statistical System;
2015/08/06
Committee: ECON
Amendment 51 #

2015/2132(BUD)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
10. Re-emphasises the need to secure in the draft budget sufficient financing for civil-society capacity building in the area of financial services;deleted
2015/08/06
Committee: ECON
Amendment 52 #

2015/2132(BUD)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 11
11. Calls for wider-rangingthe implementation of the reforms incommendations provided by the Maystadt report referring to the task and responsibilities of the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) recommended in the Maystadt report;
2015/08/06
Committee: ECON
Amendment 4 #

2015/2115(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital A
A. whereas, according to the Commission's latest springautumn forecast, economic recovery in the euro area is expected to expand, with real GDP predicted to rise by 1.54 % in 2015, 1.7 % in 2016 and 1.9 ,8% in 20167;
2015/10/29
Committee: ECON
Amendment 28 #

2015/2115(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital E
E. whereas, according to the Eurosystem projection of last JuneSeptember, the average inflation rate in the euro area, after remaining close to zero in the first half of 2015, is expected to pick up, rising to 1.51 % in 2016 and 1.87 % in 2017;
2015/10/29
Committee: ECON
Amendment 176 #

2015/2115(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
16. Notes that austerity policies in a number of Member States have contributed to stagnation and recession, with damaging effects on euro area members’ public accounts, levels of unemployment and social cohesion;deleted
2015/10/29
Committee: ECON
Amendment 222 #

2015/2115(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
23. Calls for a thorough assessment of the Troika’s modus operandi and of the ECB’s involvement in the Troika and Quadriga frameworks, with a view to clarifying and redefining the scope of responsibilities and ensuring greater democratic accountability in the adoption and implementation of bailout programmes; invites the Council to reconsider the involvement of the ECB and IMF in the Troika;deleted
2015/10/29
Committee: ECON
Amendment 274 #

2015/2115(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
28. Welcomes the capital market union project and its potential contribution to reducing excessive dependence of euro area economieto boost jobs and growth by increasing and diversifying the sources of finance for businesses and long-term projects oin the banking system;all 28 EU Member States.
2015/10/29
Committee: ECON
Amendment 148 #

2015/0268(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 12
(12) For offers of securities to the public of a consideration below EUR 500 000, the cost of producing a prospectus in accordance with this Regulation is likely to be disproportionate to the envisaged proceeds of the offer. It is therefore appropriate that the requirement to draw up a prospectus under this Regulation should not apply to offers of such small scale. Member States should refrain to impose at national level disclosure requirements which would constitute a disproportionate or unnecessary burden in relation to such offers and thus increase fragmentation of the internal market.
2016/04/21
Committee: ECON
Amendment 242 #

2015/0268(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 76
(76) No later than fivthree years after the entry into force of this Regulation, the Commission should review the application of this Regulation and assess in particular whether the disclosure regimes for secondary issuances and for SMEs, the universal registration document and the prospectus summary remain appropriate to meet the objectives pursued by this Regulation.
2016/04/21
Committee: ECON
Amendment 641 #

2015/0268(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 46 – paragraph 1
Before [enter date 53 years after entry into force] the Commission shall present a report to the European Parliament and the Council on the application of this Regulation, accompanied where appropriate by a legislative proposal.
2016/04/21
Committee: ECON
Amendment 186 #

2015/0226(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 3 – point b
(b) purchases a third party's exposures foron its own account and then securitises them; lls or assigns them to an SSPE or transfers the risk of those exposures by the use of credit derivatives or guarantees;
2016/07/27
Committee: ECON
Amendment 348 #

2015/0226(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 8
8. The debtors or the guarantors shall have, at the time of transfer of the exposures, made at least one payment, except in case of revolving securitisations backed by personal overdraft facilities, credit card receivables, trade receivables and dealer floorplan finance loans or exposures payable in a single instalment.
2016/07/27
Committee: ECON
Amendment 114 #

2015/0068(CNS)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Directive 2011/16/EU
Article 8a – paragraph 2
2. The competent authority of a Member State shall also communicate information to the competent authorities of all other Member States as well as to the European Commission on advance cross-border rulings and advance pricing arrangements issued within a period beginning tenfive years before the entry into force but still valid on the date of entry into force of this Directive;
2015/09/24
Committee: ECON
Amendment 123 #

2015/0068(CNS)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
(b) in respect of the information exchanged pursuant to paragraph 2: before 31 December 20167;
2015/09/24
Committee: ECON
Amendment 177 #

2015/0068(CNS)

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Member States shall adopt and publish, by 31 December 20156 at the latest, the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive. They shall forthwith communicate to the Commission the text of those provisions.
2015/09/24
Committee: ECON
Amendment 178 #

2015/0068(CNS)

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
They shall apply those provisions from 1 January 20167.
2015/09/24
Committee: ECON
Amendment 74 #

2015/0009(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point e
(e) providensuring financial support for the companies referred to in Article 1(1), incluby providing working capital risk financing to boost competitiveness and economic growth in the EU and to support economic, social and territorial cohesion.
2015/03/13
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 84 #

2015/0009(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1
(1) The economic and financial crisis has led to a lowering of the level of investments within the Union. Investment has fallen by approximately 15% since its peak in 2007. The Union suffers in particular from a lack of investment as a consequence of market uncertainty regarding the economic future and the, the necessary fiscal constraints on Members states, subdued expectations of demand as well as high indebtedness of Member States. This lack of investment slows economic recovery, reduces market confidence and negatively affects job creation, long-term growth prospects and competitiveness.
2015/03/19
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 104 #

2015/0009(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2
(2) Comprehensive action is required to reverse the vicious circle created by a lack of investment. Structural reforms and fiscal responsibility are necessary preconditions for stimulating investment as stated in the Commission's Communication on the Annual Growth Survey 2015 and the EP report on the European Semester for economic policy coordination: Annual Growth Survey 2015. Along with a renewed impetus towards investment financing, these preconditions can contribute to establishing a virtuous circle, where investment projects help support employment and demand and lead to a sustained increase in growth potential.
2015/03/19
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 142 #

2015/0009(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8
(8) The EFSI is part of a comprehensive approach to address uncertainty surrounding public and private investments. The strategy has three pillars: mobilising finance for investment, making investment reach the real economy and improving the investment environment in the Union. The strategy should boost competitiveness and economic recovery and should be complementary to the objective of economic, social and territorial cohesion across the Union.
2015/03/19
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 294 #

2015/0009(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15
(15) The EFSI should target projects with a higher risk-return profile than existing EIB and Union instruments to ensure additionality over existing operations. The EFSI should finance projects across the Union, including in the countries most affected by the financial crisis promoting geographical spread. The EFSI should only be used where financing is not available from other sources on reasonable terms.
2015/03/19
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 320 #

2015/0009(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16 a (new)
(16a) The selection method of investment projects should take into consideration different levels of development of national financial markets as well as their stability, which will have a direct impact on the ability to use the EFSI in Member States. This will secure the distribution of financial resources throughout the whole Union.
2015/03/19
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 341 #

2015/0009(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17
(17) Decisions on the use of the EFSI support for infrastructure and large mid- cap projects should be made by an Investment Committee. The Investment Committee should be composed of independent experts who are knowledgeable and experienced in the areas of investment projects and have thorough knowledge of sectors concerned, their specificities as well as local markets. The Investment Committee should be accountable to a Steering Board of the EFSI, whoich should supervise the fulfilment of the EFSI's objectives. The independence of the Investment Committee is a key factor in ensuring the trust and participation of the private sector in the Investment Plan. To effectively benefit from the experience of the EIF, the EFSI should support funding to the EIF to allow the EIF to undertake individual projects in the areas of small and medium enterprises and small mid-cap companies.
2015/03/19
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 395 #

2015/0009(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 21
(21) Provided that all relevant eligibility criteria are fulfilled, Member States may use European Structural Investment Funds to contribute to the financing of eligible projects that are supported by the EU guarantee. The flexibility of this approach should maximise the potential to attract investors to the areas of investment targeted by the EFSI. The EFSI may also be used for co- financing projects eligible under European Structural and Investment Funds.
2015/03/25
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 421 #

2015/0009(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 25
(25) The EIB should regularly evaluate activities supported by the EFSI with a view to assessing their relevance, performanceeconomic viability and impact and to identifying aspects that could improve future activities. Such evaluations should contribute to accountability and analysis of sustainability.
2015/03/25
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 446 #

2015/0009(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 26
(26) Alongside the financing operations that will be conducted through the EFSI, a European Investment Advisory Hub ('EIAH') should be created. The EIAH should provide strengthened support for project development and preparation across the Union, by building on the expertise of the Commission, the EIB, national promotional banks and the managing authorities of the European Structural and Investment Funds. This should establish a single point of entry for questions related to technical assistance for investments within the Union, access to which should be fostered by creating sub- national centres for investment support, facilitating effective dissemination of information.
2015/03/25
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 612 #

2015/0009(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 a (new)
Article 1a Definitions For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions apply: "national promotional banks or institutions" mean legal entities carrying out financial activities on a professional basis which are conferred a mandate by a Member State, whether central, regional or local level, to carry out public development or promotional activities.
2015/03/25
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 866 #

2015/0009(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 2
The Investment Committee shall be composed of sixtwelve independent experts and the Managing Director. Independent experts coming from different Member States shall have a high level of relevant market experience in project finance as well as thorough knowledge of sectors concerned, their specificities as well as local markets and be appointed only by the Steering Board for a renewable fixed term of three years.
2015/03/25
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 902 #

2015/0009(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1
The Union shall provide a guarantee to the EIB for financing or investment operations carried out within the Union, or operations between a Member State and a country falling within the scope of the European Neighbourhood Policy including the Strategic Partnership, the Enlargement Policy, and the European Economic Area or the European Free Trade Association, or between a Member State and an Overseas Country or Territory, as set out in Annex II of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, covered by this Regulation and the EFSI agreement ('EU guarantee'). The EU guarantee shall be granted as a guarantee on demand in respect of instruments referred to in Article 6.
2015/03/25
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 981 #

2015/0009(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point c
(c) expansion of renewable energy and energy and resource efficiencydevelopment and modernisation of the energy sector, including the development of indigenous energy sources;
2015/03/25
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 1070 #

2015/0009(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 4
4. Provided that all relevant eligibility criteria are fulfilled, Member States may use European Structural and Investment Funds to contribute to the financing of eligible projects in which the EIB is investing with the support of the EU guarantee. The EFSI may also be used for co- financing projects eligible for European Structural and Investment Funds.
2015/03/25
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 488 #

2014/2248(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
14. Considers that neither the Stability and Growth Pact norand the ‘no bail-out’ clause (Article 125 TFEU) provide the intended solutions, and that they have furthermore lost credibility in their current form, as the pact has been infringed by several Member States without political or legal consequences, while Greece has been bailed out on a large scale on three occasiona strong framework for economic governance, but is greatly concerned that the pact has been infringed by several Member States without political or legal consequences, and that excessive sovereign debt in particular have made macroeconomic adjustment programmes necessary in several Member States;
2016/11/09
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 497 #

2014/2248(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Acknowledges the improvements brought by the European Semester, the six- pack and the two-pack aimed at addressing these issues, but concludes that they have not solved the problems; believes, moreover, that they have contributed to making the system overly complex, are not binding with regard to country-specific recommendations and do not cover spill- over effects between one Member State and another, or to the euro area or the EU as a whole; believes that those laws need to be applied and enforced more consistently;
2016/11/09
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 601 #

2014/2248(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
21. Is of the opinion that, in order to increase financial stability, mitigate cross- border asymmetric shocks and reduce the effects of recession, the euro area needs a fiscal capacity based on genuine own resources and a proper treasury facility equipped with a capacity to borrow; this treasury must be based in the Commission and be subject to democratic scrutiny and accountability through Parliament and the Council;deleted
2016/11/09
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 637 #

2014/2248(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
23. Calls, therefore, for the executive authority to be concentrated in the Commission in the role of an EU Finance Minister, by endowing the Commission with the capacity to formulate and give effect to a common EU economic policy combining macro-economic, fiscal and monetary instruments, backed up by a euro-area budget; the Finance Minister should be responsible for the operation of the ESM and other mutualised funds, and be the single external representative of the euro area in international organisations, especially in the financial sector;deleted
2016/11/09
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 707 #

2014/2248(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
27. Calls, finally, for the banking union to be completed as soon as possible on the basis of a fast-track timetablea step-by-step basis;
2016/11/09
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 9 #

2014/2245(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
1. Underlines that the economic crisis and the necessary austerity measures have greatly increased economic and social disparities, worsening the differences between (and within) Member States;
2015/03/26
Committee: ECON
Amendment 14 #

2014/2245(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Reminds that EU cohesion policy aims at reducing disparities between the levels of development of Member States and regions, and the backwardness of the least regions;
2015/03/26
Committee: ECON
Amendment 17 #

2014/2245(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses the important role of cohesion policy in mitigating the effects of the financial, economic and social crisis, as well as its positive effects on all regionat while the cohesion policy is not a macroeconomic stabilisation instrument and it is not meant to cope with the economic and social crisis, it may nevertheless play a role in mitigating the effects of the crisis; underlines its importance in closing the public/private investment gap, especially in the Member States hit most by the crisis;
2015/03/26
Committee: ECON
Amendment 42 #

2014/2245(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
4. Welcomes the ‘investment clause’ outlined in the Commission communication on flexibility within the SGP; strongly believes that the investment clause should be symmetrically extended to the corrective arm;
2015/03/26
Committee: ECON
Amendment 53 #

2014/2245(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
5. Believes that the possibility of exempting the national cofinancing of the ESIF from SGP deficit calculations should be examined;deleted
2015/03/26
Committee: ECON
Amendment 66 #

2014/2245(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
6. Welcomes the closer alignment of cohesion policy with the overall economic strategy and the EU’s Economic Governance Framework; opposes creating a close link between financial and fiscal objectives and cohesion policy; calls on the Commission to ensure that the effectiveness of the ESIF is not compromised by macroeconomic policies; calls for the full and formal involvement of Parliament in the future governance structure of the fund;.
2015/03/26
Committee: ECON
Amendment 4 #

2014/2233(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls the importance of public-private partnerships (PPPs) as a vehicle for economic growth and innovation, both in the single market and abroad; notes that European companies are well equipped to compete for and operate such arrangements;
2015/04/01
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 16 #

2014/2233(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. Recalls that PPPs are characterised by their high value and technical complexity, and by the parties’ long-term commitment; notes that they consequently require appropriate levels of both flexibility and procedural safeguards to ensure transparency, non-discrimination and equal treatment; stresses that these requirements are particular challenges for EU-based SMEs in competing on international markets as parts of PPPs.
2015/04/01
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 22 #

2014/2233(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that, while PPP arrangements may take various forms, single market legislation sets high procedural standards; notes that this legislation was revised and consolidated in Directives 2014/24/EU and 2014/25/EU on public procurement, in Directive 2014/23/EU on concessions, and in guidance on institutionalised PPPs; Calls on the Commission to consider the possibility of providing developing countries with technical assistance and advice on how to prepare and implement the EU standards on their markets.
2015/04/01
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 43 #

2014/2233(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls on the Commission to ensure that EU-backed bodies such as the European Agency for Small and Medium- sized Enterprises (EASME) and the Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) can also access and share information with SMEs on how to enter PPPs in states outside the EU and promote small and medium-sized companies' participation in PPPs in third countries.
2015/04/01
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 45 #

2014/2233(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Calls on the Commission, while negotiating trade and investment agreements with other countries, to support dismantling barriers for EU companies and particularly SMEs to enter PPPs in these countries and support the mobility of EU professionals to these states, so that they can compete on equal footing with domestic companies as well as companies coming from third states.
2015/04/01
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 12 #

2014/2228(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph b
b. take immediate action to ensure that free and fair competition on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as market access, is addressed on the basis of the highest standards possible within the existing levels of protection, especially within areas such as health and safety, consumer, labour and environmental legislationfinancial services;
2015/03/04
Committee: ECON
Amendment 44 #

2014/2228(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital A
A. whereas an ambitious and balanced agreement with the US may support the reindustrialisation of Europe and help achieve the 2020 target for an increase of the EU’s GDP generated by industry from 15 % to 20 %; whereas it has the potential to create opportunities especially for SMEs, which suffer more from non-tariff barriers (NTBs) than larger companies; whereas an agreement between the two biggest economic blocs in the world has the potential to create standards, norms and rules which will be adopted at a global level, which would serve to the advantage of third countries as well;
2015/03/30
Committee: INTA
Amendment 50 #

2014/2228(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph d a (new)
da. spare no efforts to fully use the opportunity provided by TTIP negotiations to move forward together on financial services in a positive and constructive way, while having regard to what has been achieved by both sides on the matter already. The discussion could include bilateral consultations before new pieces of legislation; transparency towards stakeholders when it comes to bilateral discussions on financial issues and more accountability towards elected bodies;
2015/03/04
Committee: ECON
Amendment 55 #

2014/2228(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph e
e. take immediate action to ensure that aggressive tax planning, and distortion of competition by e.g. moving of headquarters across the Atlantic to obtain competition-distorting conditions,measures which may have trade-distortive effects are addressed;
2015/03/04
Committee: ECON
Amendment 63 #

2014/2228(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph f
f. take immediate action to ensure that systematic movement of capital across the Atlantic, in order to avoid tax payments in the country of production and/or sale of goods or services, is addressed within the TTIP;s rather based on economic activity and not abused in order to minimise fiscal liabilities
2015/03/04
Committee: ECON
Amendment 73 #

2014/2228(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B
B. whereas, given the growing interconnectedness of global markets – up to 40 % of European industrial products are manufactured from imported upstream products – it is crucial that policymakers shape the way these markets interact; whereas proper trade rules are fundamental to creating added value in Europe, since industrial production takes place in global value chains;it is crucial that Europe benefits from participation in global supply chains, while maintaining and developing a strong, competitive and diversified industrial base in Europe; (For consistency with the Recital A European added value should not be built only on e.g. costs of marketing, storage and/or distribution of imports. Also resolution should not quote data without reference to sources. TTIP should first and foremost promote trade of goods manufactured in the EU or the US but the imported goods only repacked/relabelled/assembled in the EU or the US.)
2015/03/30
Committee: INTA
Amendment 97 #

2014/2228(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Stresses the importance of the mobility package, including visa facilitation for services and goods providers from all EU countries, in order to ensure equal opportunities for European and US companies and professionals;
2015/02/26
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 105 #

2014/2228(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph i
i. proposeconsider the introduction of a national court systems-first principle, to be supplemented with mediation and intergovernreformed investmental dispute mechanisms in legal disputes in order to ensure easier access and lower litigation costsresolution mechanism under TTIP to apply between EU or US investors ; propose thant those offered by current ISDS- mechanisms, benefitting especially SMEs (having fewer resources available than large corporations), thus creating more equal competition cone dispute resolution mechanism work similarly to the World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement with firstly consultation or mediations; stress that any and all dispute mechanisms set in place within the TTIP-framework must uphold full transparency and be subject to democratic principles and scrutiny, secondly a panel report prepared by experts , thirdly a dispute settlement body report and possible fourth step which is the appellate mechanism ;
2015/03/04
Committee: ECON
Amendment 114 #

2014/2228(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital E
E. whereas many economic impact studies on TTIP should be taken with caution as they are built on computable general equilibrium economic models with veryased on many general assumptions and optimistic predictions about the capacity of the EU and the US to reduce regulatory barriers to trade; whereas the TTIP alone will not resolve economic problems in the EU and no false hopes and expectations should be raised in that respect;
2015/03/30
Committee: INTA
Amendment 140 #

2014/2228(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph k a (new)
ka. given that TTIP will benefit SMEs more than big business; that the elimination of tariffs, the simplification of customs procedures and the convergence of products standards will notably facilitate SME's participation in transatlantic trade and that TTIP will be the first free trade agreement to have a dedicated SME chapter, negotiations should consolidate existing cooperation between the US and EU on SMEs. They should provide for the creation of websites where both European as well as US SMEs could find out about tariffs, customs procedures and all applicable product regulations, at federal and local level.
2015/03/04
Committee: ECON
Amendment 185 #

2014/2228(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital H
H. whereas President Juncker has clearly reiterated in his Political Guidelines that – while the EU and the US can go a significant step further in recognising each other’s product standards and working towards transatlantic standards – the EU will not sacrifice its safety, health, social and data protection standards or our cultural diversity, recalling that the high level of safety of the food we eat and the protection of Europeans’ personal data are non- negotiable;will be maintained; (It is important to stress that we are not talking about lowering standards in negotiations rather than saying that issues of food safety are not-negotiable, as it is not true - issues of food safety or SPS are being negotiated, but we don’t want to decrease level of protection in this negotiations. That is the difference.)
2015/03/30
Committee: INTA
Amendment 324 #

2014/2228(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b – point ii
(ii) to aim at the elimination of all duty tariffs, while respecting sensitive agricultural and industrial products on both sides;
2015/03/30
Committee: INTA
Amendment 337 #

2014/2228(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b – point iii
(iii) to keep in mind that there are important offensive interests for the EU in the services sector, for instance in the areas of engineeringprofessional services, telecommunications and transport services;
2015/03/30
Committee: INTA
Amendment 350 #

2014/2228(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b – point iii a (new)
(iiia) to ensure that mutually beneficial mobility package is provided for, which includes visa facilitation for providers of services and goods from all Member States and recognises their professional and technical qualifications;
2015/03/30
Committee: INTA
Amendment 361 #

2014/2228(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b – point iv
(iv) to increase market access for services by mutual recognition for EUs professional service providers, according to the ‘positive list approach’ whereby services that are to be opened up to foreign companies are explicitly mentioned and new services are excluded while ensuring that possible standstill and ratchet clauses only apply to non- discrimination provisions and allow for enough flexibility to bring services back into public control;
2015/03/30
Committee: INTA
Amendment 528 #

2014/2228(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b – point xiv
(xiv) to ensure that the negotiations on rules of origin aim at reconcilinge the EU and US approaches; given the conclusion of the negotiations for the Compreh in a way that as far as possible takes into account the interests of European producers and that thus contributes to economic growth and promotes job creation in the EU while protecting the sensitive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between EU and Canada and the potential upgrade of the EU-Mexico free trade agreement, the possibility and scope of cumulation will need to be considered; products; however it must be kept in mind that the purpose of TTIP is to facilitate trade in genuinely US and EU made products and not to allow imports from third countries; Exclusions for certain products will need to be considered on a case by case basis and exclusions from all type of cumulation should be granted for sensitive sectors;
2015/03/30
Committee: INTA
Amendment 550 #

2014/2228(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point c – point i
(i) to ensure that the regulatory cooperation chapter promotes an effective, pro- competitive economic environment through the facilitation of trade and investment while developing and securing high levels of protection of health and safety, consumer, labour and environmental legislation and of the cultural diversity that exists within the EU; negotiators on both sides should strive to achieve the best outcome in each sector; however, they need to identify and to be very clear about which regulatory measures and standards are fundamental and cannot be compromised, which ones can be the subject of a common approach, which are the areas where mutual recognition based on a common high standard and a strong system of market surveillance is desirable and which are those where simply an improved exchange of information is possible, based on the experience of one and a half years of ongoing talks;
2015/03/30
Committee: INTA
Amendment 635 #

2014/2228(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point d – point ii
(ii) to ensure that the sustainable development chapter aims at the full and effective ratification, implementation and enforcement ofreaffirmation of the Parties' commitment to shared key principles stemming from the eight fundamental conventions of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and their content, the ILO’s Decent Work Agenda and the core international environmental agreements; provisions should be aimed at improving levels of protection of labour and environmental standards; an ambitious trade and sustainable development chapter should also include rules on corporate social responsibility based on the Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and a clearly structured civil society involvement; (Commission in its position paper on Trade and Sustainable Development suggests less stringent provisions. We have to be careful in obliging US to ratify all ILO conventions, as this is probably non- negotiable issues for them.)
2015/03/30
Committee: INTA
Amendment 684 #

2014/2228(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point d – point vii
(vii) to ensure that in course of the negotiations the two sides examine ways to facilitate natural gas and oil exports, so that TTIP wouldTTIP abolishes any existing export restrictions on energy between the two trading partners, thereby supporting a diversification of energy sources in the EU and to consider conditioning tariff reduction on energy intensive goods on effective free flow of US energy to the EU in order to enhance European negotiating position;
2015/03/30
Committee: INTA
Amendment 765 #

2014/2228(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point d – point xiv
(xiv) to ensure that foreign investors are treated in a non-discriminatory fashion and have a fair opportunity to seek and achieve redress of grievances, which can be achieved withrout the inclusion of an ISDSgh a national court systems or, where appropriate ISDS; all dispute mechanism;s such a mechanism is not necessary in TTIP given the EU’s and the US’ developed legal systems; a state-to- state dispute settlement system and the use of national courts are the most appropriate tools to address investment disputes;et in place within the TTIP- framework must uphold full transparency and be subject to democratic principles and scrutiny with CETA solutions serving as a basis; (It is crucial to include in the ISDS provisions the so called fork-in-the-road provision, which creates an option for the investor to choose EITHER national court system OR investment arbitration; parallel claims should be prohibited. Intergovernmental dispute settlement would leave decision on initiation of an investment dispute to a state, which would inevitably involve political considerations and would limit access of SMEs to dispute settlement.)
2015/03/30
Committee: INTA
Amendment 44 #

2014/2221(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Takes note of the Commission's communication on the implementation of the Stability and Growth Pact which strengthens the link between structural reforms, investment and fiscal responsibility making the best use of the flexibility which exists within its rules.
2015/01/19
Committee: ECON
Amendment 125 #

2014/2158(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Calls for clear guidelines on timetables, deadlines and and for efficient procedures in order to speed up the investigations process and to avoid unjustified extensions. Calls for formal rights for all implicated parties in antitrust and cartel cases, with due stress on the principle of the presumption of innocence;
2014/12/17
Committee: ECON
Amendment 154 #

2014/2158(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Stresses the importance to avoid monopolistic practices in order to achieve a fully fair and competitive European energy market, in this regard calls for the elimination of monopolistic suppliers and discriminatory practices on users. The European gas market shall tend to an Energy Union with fair and stable prices by improving the diversification of its energy sources and access to strategic infrastructures;
2014/12/17
Committee: ECON
Amendment 5 #

2014/2157(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital A
A. whereas, according to the Commission services’ spring' autumn 2014 forecast, GDP in the euro area fell by 0.4 % in 2013 after a decline of 0.7 % in 2012, and whereas the Commission services expect a recovery, with GDP rising by 1.20.8 % in 2014 and by 1.71 % in 2015;
2014/11/19
Committee: ECON
Amendment 6 #

2014/2157(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B
B. whereas, according to the same forecast, unemployment in the euro area rose from 11.3 % at the end of 2012 to 121.9 % at the end of 2013, and may fall slightly to 11.86 % in 2014;
2014/11/19
Committee: ECON
Amendment 19 #

2014/2157(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital E
E. whereas, according to the Commission services’ spring' autumn 2014 forecast, the average inflation rate in the euro area was 1.34 % in 2013, down from 2.5 % in 2012; whereas inflation in the euro area has continued to be on a downward path since the beginning of 2014, reaching a low of 0.3 % in September;
2014/11/19
Committee: ECON
Amendment 40 #

2014/2157(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital J
J. whereas the size of the euro system's balance-sheet has declined steadily over the course of 2013, reflecting receding financial fragmentationimbursement of LTRO funds by banks;
2014/11/19
Committee: ECON
Amendment 63 #

2014/2157(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses its concern regarding the continuous fall in the inflation rate below the level ensuring the price stability in the euro area since 20113; stresses that the important gap observed today, with the ECB's aim of keeping inflation rates below but close to 2% in the medium term, could lead to a disaentrenchoring in medium- to longer-term indeflationary expectations;
2014/11/19
Committee: ECON
Amendment 115 #

2014/2157(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. Stresses its concern regarding the considerable fragmentation of lending conditions for SMEs across the eurozone countries, and by the existing gap between financing rates granted to SMEs and those granted to bigger companies; insists that these long-standing problems are not appropriately addressed by the recent measures announced by ECB to boost bank lending, and that the ECB should study the possibility of launching a specific programme to support SMEs access to credit;
2014/11/19
Committee: ECON
Amendment 28 #

2014/2156(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Is deeply concerned at the current situation of economic stalling in the EU, and in particular the significant decline in public and private investment– around 18 % belowNotes that economic recovery in the EU has considerably slowed down in the course of 2014 with a prospect to catch up again in 2015 and even more in 2016 ; notes that since the peak of the crisis in 2007 the levels – and by the staggering 35 % drop in lending to SMEs between 2008 and 2013 of investment has fallen by about EUR 430 billion ; underlines that such a decline represents a massive hurdle for a sustainable recovery as well as for genuine progress towards the EU 2020 objectives;
2014/12/16
Committee: ECON
Amendment 42 #

2014/2156(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Takes note in that context of the establishment of a Task Force, led by the Commission and the European Investment Bank, with a view to identifying concrete actions to boost investment, including a pipeline of potentially viable projects of European relevance to be realised in the short and medium term; emphasises that this Task Force should explicitly identify hurdles and remedies for increasing investments and actively seek the involvement of Parliament, social partners and CSOs;
2014/12/16
Committee: ECON
Amendment 77 #

2014/2156(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on the Commission and the EIB to foster the inclusion of investment in the human capital within its scope of action, especially in Member States with high levels of unemployment and low rates of productivity;deleted
2014/12/16
Committee: ECON
Amendment 99 #

2014/2156(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Insists that the evaluation to be carried out by the Commission in December 2014 take into account the negative impact of some projects in the PBI Pilot Phase; considers it regrettable that the EIB is supporting unviable and unsustainable infrastructure projects which are neither climate-friendly nor address the needs and interests of the population they are intended to serve;
2014/12/16
Committee: ECON
Amendment 102 #

2014/2156(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
14. Regrets in particular the role played by the EIB and the Commission in the Castor project, which is funded in the framework of PBI, involving a risk assessment which did not take account of the risk of increased seismic activity associated with the injection of gas, despite the existence of studies clearly warning of the potential dangers8 ; urges the Commission and the EIB to take action in order to avoid Spain having to pay EUR 1 300 million in compensation over a disastrously assessed project; __________________ 8 See: Observatori de l’Ebre (CSIC, URLL). Evaluación de Impacto Ambiental (SGEA/SHG; Ref.: GAD/13/05) -‘Almacenamiento subterráneo de gas natural Amposta (Permiso Castor) Ttarragona); IAM 2109- 07 - Estudio elaborado por la Dirección General de Política Ambiental y Sostenibilidad del Departamento de Medio Ambienta y Vivienda de la Generalitat de Catalunya sobre el estudio de impacto ambiental del Proyecto de almacén subterráneo de gas natural Castor’; and Simone Cesca, Francesco Grigoli, Sebastian Heimann, Álvaro González, Elisa Buforn, Samira Maghsoudi, Estefania Blanch y Torsten Dahm (2014): ’The 2013 September– October seismic sequence offshore Spain: a case of seismicity triggered by gas injection?’, Geophysical Journal International, 198, 941–953.deleted
2014/12/16
Committee: ECON
Amendment 110 #

2014/2156(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Calls, therefore, for a comprehensive evaluation of the pilot projects on the basis of an inclusive and open consultation process; also calls on the Commission to submit, via the ordinary legislative procedure, a legislative proposal which will better frame the future project bond strategy, including an enhancement of the EIB performance indicators framework for quality investment, so as to identify and measure both the impact of the funded projects in terms of external costs and their social and environmental returns;
2014/12/16
Committee: ECON
Amendment 134 #

2014/2156(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
18. Welcomes the EIB’s first steps towards a shift to renewable energy and the reduction of lending to the coal sector; calls for the rectification of regional imbalances in renewable energy lending and for more attention to be paid in the future to smaller- scale, off-grid decentralised renewable energy projects involving citizens and communities;
2014/12/16
Committee: ECON
Amendment 141 #

2014/2156(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
20. Urges the EIB to present a comprehensive plan for phasing out its lending to non-renewable energy projects and its currently excessive support for large-scale gas infrastructures;deleted
2014/12/16
Committee: ECON
Amendment 151 #

2014/2156(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
22. Urges the EIB to improve the independence and effectiveness of its Complaint Mechanism Office; calls on the EIB Management Committee to take on board the recommendations of that office; calls on the EIB to act on the opinions of the European Ombudsman and to practise greater cooperation in order to avoid situations like the inquiry into complaint 178/2014/AN against the European Investment Bank9 ; __________________ 9 Decision of the European Ombudsman closing the inquiry into complaint 178/2014/AN against the European Investment Bank - http://www.ombudsman.europa.eu/cases/de cision.faces/en/58171/html.bookmark
2014/12/16
Committee: ECON
Amendment 168 #

2014/2156(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
28. Recalls that the external policy of the EIB, and in particular the regional technical operational guidelines, should be consistent with the external action goals of the UE as defined in Article 21 TEU; calls for full respect of the legislation, and in particular the environmental and social standards, of the beneficiary countries;
2014/12/16
Committee: ECON
Amendment 552 #

2014/2153(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Welcomes that the Investment Plan proposed by the Commission counts energy as one of its priorities; emphasizes that such investment is necessary for the EU to complete a fully integrated European Energy Union built on diversity of energy sources and suppliers, efficiency as well as solidarity.
2015/02/03
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 64 #

2014/2145(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital A
A. whereas, according to the Commission's autumnwinter forecast, after two consecutive years of unanticipated negative growth, gross domestic product (GDP) in the euro area is expected to rise by 0.81,2 % in 2014 and by 1.1,8 % in 2015, meaning that the pre-crisis growth rate will not be regained this year; but the economic recovery is expected to catch up in 2015 ;
2015/03/04
Committee: ECON
Amendment 85 #

2014/2145(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B
B. whereas huge differences will continue to prevail between the Member States, also following the Troika’s intervention, with forecasted GDP growth rates in 2014 ranging between -2.8 % in Cyprus and +4.6 % in Ireland reflecting increasingly undermining growing internal divergencnecessary post- crisis adjustments in some Member States as well as the success of the financial consolidation in other member States ;
2015/03/04
Committee: ECON
Amendment 115 #

2014/2145(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital C
C. whereas, according to the Commission's autumnwinter forecast, investment in the euro area decreased by 3.4 % in 2012, by 2.4 % in 2013 and by 175 % since the pre-crisis period, with the expected rebound rate in 2014 (0.6,9 %) and that anticipated for 2015 (1.7 2,0%) being very weak; whereas a lack of investment can be just as detrimental to future generations as excessive public debt;
2015/03/04
Committee: ECON
Amendment 177 #

2014/2145(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Believes that the current economic situation calls for urgent, comprehensive and decisive measures to face the threat of the deflationary pressure or very low inflation, low growth and high unemployment;
2015/03/04
Committee: ECON
Amendment 201 #

2014/2145(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Highlights the fact that the current economic governance framework does not allow for a proper debate on the economic perspective of the euro area or on an aggregate fiscal stance and does not address the different economic and fiscal situations on an equal footing;
2015/03/04
Committee: ECON
Amendment 217 #

2014/2145(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Stresses, however, that excessive debts and large macroeconomic imbalances accumulated in some Member States were directly caused by systematic violations of the existing EU fiscal rules;
2015/03/04
Committee: ECON
Amendment 224 #

2014/2145(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that major policy initiatives which included policy recommendations were based on economic forecasts that had not anticipated the low growth and inflation experienced and have not fully taken into account the underestimation ofed the size of the fiscal multiplier, the importance of spillover effects across countries in a period of synchronised consolidation and the deflationary impact of cumulative structural reforms ;
2015/03/04
Committee: ECON
Amendment 252 #

2014/2145(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses that the current situation calls for closer and inclusive economic coordination (to increase aggregate demand, improve fiscal sustainability and allow for fair and sustainabl, encourage structural reforms and relatedboost investments) and for swift reactions so as to correct the most obvious fault liimprove the effectiveness inof the economic governance framework;
2015/03/04
Committee: ECON
Amendment 277 #

2014/2145(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Warns that the accumulation of procedures makes the economic governance framework complex and not transparent enough, which is detrimental to the ownership and acceptance by parliaments, social partners and citizens of guidelines, recommendations and reforms stemming from this framework;
2015/03/04
Committee: ECON
Amendment 310 #

2014/2145(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Underlines allAcknowledges the existing provisions under the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) which have been put in place to ensure an anti-cyclical policy; finds it regrettable that these provisions were not put to full use in previous years, in the context of low inflation, low growth and high unemployment;
2015/03/04
Committee: ECON
Amendment 325 #

2014/2145(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Welcomes the fact that in its interpretative communication on flexibility, "Making the best use of the flexibility within the existing rules of the SGP", the Commission acknowledgnotes that the way in which the current fiscal rules are interpreted is crucial in bridgas it explaings the linvestment gap in the EU and implementing growth-enhancing structural reformsk between investment, structural reforms and fiscal responsibility;
2015/03/04
Committee: ECON
Amendment 352 #

2014/2145(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Supports all the incentives to finance the new European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI), mainly by makingnot taking into account national contributions to the fund fiscally neutral as regardswhen defining the fiscal adjustment under the preventive or the corrective arm of the SGP; calls for further clarification regarding the concrete treatment of these contributions in accordance with the new paradigm set out in the communication;
2015/03/04
Committee: ECON
Amendment 380 #

2014/2145(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Believes that the communication rightly broadens the scope of the investment clause, allowing for flexibility in the preventive arm of the SGP to accommodate investment programmes by the Member States, in particular as regards expenditure on projects under structural and cohesion policy, including the Youth Employment Initiative, trans-European networks and the Connecting Europe Facility, and co-financing under the EFSI; believes that this approach must be urgently reassessed to be symmetrically applied to the corrective arm of the SGP;
2015/03/04
Committee: ECON
Amendment 396 #

2014/2145(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. BelievNotes that structural reforms should have a positive socioeconomic return and contribute to increased administrative capacityare still essential in a number of countries; notes also the fact that those Member States that have successfully implemented adjustment programmes or financial programmes have been able to return to the financial markets; believes that particular attention should be paid to structural reforms which have a positive socioeconomic return ;
2015/03/03
Committee: ECON
Amendment 418 #

2014/2145(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Underlines that the deficit rule and the MTO rule under the Stability Growth Pact should be applied in tandem, and that for a Member State that observes the MTO rule the 3% deficit limit ensures sufficient fiscal flexibility in responding to shocks;
2015/03/03
Committee: ECON
Amendment 437 #

2014/2145(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
14. Believes that more room for flexibility and soft laws exists under the SGP and in the European Semester; invites the Commission to build on this flexibility and to propose rule changes where neededstreamline and reinforce the European semester ;
2015/03/03
Committee: ECON
Amendment 459 #

2014/2145(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Invites the Commission and the Council to better articulate the fiscal and macroeconomic frameworks, notably in the corrective arm of the SGP, to allow for earlier debate among stakeholders, taking into account the need to increase convergence between euro area Member States and the role of national parliaments and social partners regarding the design and implementation of structural reforms;
2015/03/03
Committee: ECON
Amendment 475 #

2014/2145(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
16. InsistBelieves that the Annual Growth Survey (AGS) and euro area recommendation must be better designed and put to better use to allow for a global economic debate, notably as regards competitiveness and convergence in the euro area; proposes that the country- specific recommendations (CSRs) should be established on the basis of striking a better balance between the AGS and the macroeconomic imbalance procedure (MIP), and suggests that the euro area recommendation should be made compulsory following a proper debate with the European Parliament, with incentives being offered so as to encourage the implementation thereof; requests that the excessive deficit procedure (EDP) recommendation be joined togethercoordinated with the CSRs;
2015/03/03
Committee: ECON
Amendment 481 #

2014/2145(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Believes that as flexibility is added to the fiscal treatment of structural reforms under existing SGP rules, more sustained political attention must also be given to the ability of the economic governance framework to monitor, foster and sustain these national-level structural reforms from commitment stage to reality.
2015/03/03
Committee: ECON
Amendment 492 #

2014/2145(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
17. Asks the Commission to verify whether the current 1/20 rule on debt reduction is sustainableffective and whether it needs to be reconsidered;
2015/03/03
Committee: ECON
Amendment 517 #

2014/2145(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
18. Asks the Commission to make the three-pillar strategy (investment, fiscal rules and structural reforms), presented in the AGS 2015, more concrete under the euro area recommendation and in the CSRs and to strengthen its approach by building a fourth pillar on taxation;
2015/03/03
Committee: ECON
Amendment 532 #

2014/2145(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
19. Believes that national fiscal councils could play a useful role at EU level; requests the set-up of a European network allowing for an independent analysis of the economic perspectives to be established as a basis for a proper political discussion among stakeholders;
2015/03/03
Committee: ECON
Amendment 536 #

2014/2145(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
20. Believes that the MIP must be used in a more balanced manner between deficit and surplus countries, also to address countries with significant room for action;deleted
2015/03/03
Committee: ECON
Amendment 555 #

2014/2145(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
21. Calls on the Commission to explore ways in which to better align the preventive and corrective arms of the SGP, in particular regarding investment allowing temporary deviation from the MTO, or the adjustment path towards it, within the existence of a safety margin under the preventive arm;deleted
2015/03/03
Committee: ECON
Amendment 587 #

2014/2145(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
24. Insists that the focus on structural deficits since the 2005 reform of the SGP, together with the introduction of an expenditure rule with the 2011 reform, creates margins for the discretionarymore flexibility in the implementation of the SGP, as the calculation of potential growth, underpinning the assessment of structural deficits, and that of the expenditure rule are subject to several questionable assumptions and substantial revisions between the Commission's autumn and spring forecasts, thereby leading to various calculations and diverging assessments as regards the implementation of the SGP;
2015/03/03
Committee: ECON
Amendment 601 #

2014/2145(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
25. Calls on the Commission, when evaluating the fiscal position of Members States, to include a better balance between the impactconsider the implications of the agreed fiscal measures and the fiscal figures based on estimated potential growth for GDP, output gaps and structural deficits that may introduce unexpected radical change at a later stage;
2015/03/03
Committee: ECON
Amendment 609 #

2014/2145(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
26. Believes there is a strat deeper economic integrationg need fors less complexity, better ownership, and more transparency and democracy in economic governance; believes that looking forward towards deeper integration cannot be achieved by adding a new layer of rules to the already existing ones;
2015/03/03
Committee: ECON
Amendment 632 #

2014/2145(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
28. Calls for the annual sustainable growth guidelines to be made subject to a codecision procedure that should be introduced in the next Treaty change; instructs its President to present the annual sustainable growth guidelines as amended by Parliament at the spring European Council;deleted
2015/03/03
Committee: ECON
Amendment 649 #

2014/2145(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
30. Recalls the European Parliament’s request that the creation of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) outside of the structure of the institutions of the Union represents a setback to the political integration of the Union and, therefore, demands that the ESM be fully integrated into the community framework and made formally accountable to Parliament;
2015/03/03
Committee: ECON
Amendment 653 #

2014/2145(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
31. Calls for a new legal framework for future assistance programmes in order to ensure that all decisions are taken under the responsibility of the Commission with full involvement of Parliament;deleted
2015/03/03
Committee: ECON
Amendment 670 #

2014/2145(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
32. Requests, as per the opinion of the ECJ’s Advocate-General, that the ECB not form part of any assistance programmes;deleted
2015/03/03
Committee: ECON
Amendment 678 #

2014/2145(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
33. Requests that a reassessment of the Eurogroup’s decision-making process be conducted so as to provide for appropriate democratic accountability; believes that in the long term the Commissioner for Economic Affairs should assume the role of President of the Eurogroup;deleted
2015/03/03
Committee: ECON
Amendment 693 #

2014/2145(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
34. Recalls that a ‘genuine Economic and Monetary Union’ (EMU) cannot simply be limited to a system of rules but also requires an increased euro area fiscal capacity;deleted
2015/03/03
Committee: ECON
Amendment 720 #

2014/2145(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
35. Recalls that the banking union was the result of the political will to avoid a financial crisis and that the same will is needed as regards a potential fiscal union in order to avoid a political crisis;
2015/03/03
Committee: ECON
Amendment 737 #

2014/2145(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37
37. Invites the stakeholders in this necessary next step of the EMU to avoid left-over and to explore all options which have been well discussed and documented over a long period of time as ways of achieving a deepening of the EMU, such as: – a ‘taxation union’, – a social dimension, including a minimum wage mechanism and a minimum unemployment benefit scheme for the euro area and in-depth reforms to favour mobility, – the inclusion of the ESM in Union law and a new approach towards Eurobonds, – a euro area fiscal capacity notably to finance counter cyclical actions, structural reforms or part of debt reduction;deleted
2015/03/03
Committee: ECON
Amendment 67 #

2014/2144(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Highlights that increasenhanced tax policy harmoniscooperation would ensure that Member States’ tax policies support wider EU policy objectives as set out in the Europe 2020 strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth;
2014/12/19
Committee: ECON
Amendment 90 #

2014/2144(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission to put forward concrete proposals to tackle the VAT gap in order to fight tax fraud and tax evasion, taking into account the recent proposals as adopted by the Council, and to evaluate proposals on a definite VAT system by Spring 2015;
2014/12/19
Committee: ECON
Amendment 121 #

2014/2144(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on MSs to agree to a compulsory CCCTB as a comprehensive and long-term solution to tackle company tax obstacles in the Single Market;
2014/12/19
Committee: ECON
Amendment 156 #

2014/2144(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Welcomes country-by-country (CbC) reporting; calls on the Commission to introduceconsider as a next step CbC reporting for cross-border companies in all sectors and in all the countries in which they operate; believes that a cost-benefit analysis of the CbC reporting would be useful;
2014/12/19
Committee: ECON
Amendment 242 #

2014/2144(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
21. Stresses that the quantitative measurement of macroeconomic targets shouldmight be accompanied by qualitative indicators (social and environmental, for example), in order to address long-term goals; calls on the Commission, when drafting the country- specific recommendations, to carry out an in-depth study of the MSs’ differences;
2014/12/19
Committee: ECON
Amendment 268 #

2014/2144(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
24. Requests that reforming tax expenditures should not result in an unjustified decrease in public expenditures;deleted
2014/12/19
Committee: ECON
Amendment 293 #

2014/2144(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
26. Underlines the fact that MSs’ taxation policy on environmental taxes should be aligned with the EU 2030 strategy; recognises that an increase in environmental taxes has the potential to generate revenues and jobs; calls on the Commission to come forward with appropriate legislative proposals;
2014/12/19
Committee: ECON
Amendment 53 #

2014/2059(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Notes the fact that economic recovery in the EU is under way; reiterates, however,had encouraging signs in the last previous two years and has slowed down since the first quarter of 2014; notes also that this recovery is fragile and uneven, and must be sustained in order to deliver more growth and jobs in the medium term;
2014/09/09
Committee: ECON
Amendment 98 #

2014/2059(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Underlines, once again, the fact that the overallexcessive indebtedness ofin several Member States in the euro area is not only an obstacle to growth but also puts a huge burden on future generations;
2014/09/09
Committee: ECON
Amendment 123 #

2014/2059(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Calls, in this connection, on the future Commission to put forward a proposal on the single external representation of the euro area based on Article 138 TFEU with the pre-condition to have an efficient euro area with a common position on issues within the range of the competences of this representation;
2014/09/09
Committee: ECON
Amendment 139 #

2014/2059(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. Supports the objective of placing emphasis on policies that enhance competitiveness, support job creation, fight unemployment and improve the functioning of the labour market in particular in sectors with high growth potential;
2014/09/09
Committee: ECON
Amendment 152 #

2014/2059(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Recalls, however, that Member States’ track record of implementing the CSRs is very low; believes that there is an inconsistency between European commitment and national implementation of the CSRs by Member States; stresses the importance of ‘national ownership’ by the relevant governments of EU-level commitments; the "national ownership" would be strengthened if CSRs policies' instruments were left to the decision of the national authorities;
2014/09/09
Committee: ECON
Amendment 157 #

2014/2059(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Deems useful that draft CSRs were consulted by national parliaments before being adopted by the Council;
2014/09/09
Committee: ECON
Amendment 187 #

2014/2059(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
18. Requests that the Commission report s on a quarterly basis in Parliament's competent committee on the measures taken to ensure progress on the implementation of the CSRs and, on the progress achieved thus far; invites Member States to explai and on the reasons for non- compliance with the CRSs in Parliament’s competent commitCSRs by Member Statees;
2014/09/09
Committee: ECON
Amendment 303 #

2014/2059(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 a (new)
29a. Invites the Commission to investigate on the reasons of the weak level of private investment in the EU.
2014/09/09
Committee: ECON
Amendment 3 #

2014/0170(NLE)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Council to notify Parliament if it intends to depart from the text approved by ParliamentEndorses the adoption of the euro by Lithuania on 1 January 2015;
2014/07/10
Committee: ECON
Amendment 4 #

2014/0170(NLE)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Endorses the adoption of the euro by Lithuania on 1 January 2015Calls on the Council to notify Parliament if it intends to depart from the text approved by Parliament;
2014/07/10
Committee: ECON
Amendment 283 #

2014/0020(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point 12
12. ‘market making’ means a financial institution's commitment to provide market liquiddeal as principal in a financial instrument, whether listed or not listed on a regulated market, a multilateral trading facility onr a regular and on-going basis,n organized trading facility within the meaning of respectively points (21), (22) and (23) of Article 4(1) of Directive 2014/65/EU, whether traded on or outside a trading venue, (i) either by posting firm, simultaneous two-ways quotes of comparable size at comparable prices or by posting twoone-way quotes with regard to a certain financial instrument,the result of providing liquidity on a regular and ongoing basis to the market, (ii) or as part of its usual business, by fulfilling orders initiated by clients or in response to clients' requests to trade, but in both cases without be(iii) or by hedging exposed to material market riskitions arising from the fulfilment of tasks under points (i), (ii);
2015/02/04
Committee: ECON
Amendment 774 #

2014/0020(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1
For the purposes of this Regulation, tThe consolidating supervisor shall be deemed to beand the competent authority with regard to all group entities that belong to the same group as the EU parent and that are subject to this Regulationies responsible for the supervision of subsidiaries of an EU parent institution or an EU parent financial holding company or EU parent mixed financial holding company in a Member State shall do everything within their power to reach a joint decision on the application of Article 10 to require that a core credit institution does not carry out certain trading activities.
2015/02/03
Committee: ECON
Amendment 777 #

2014/0020(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2
When the subsidiary of an EU parent is established in another Member State and supervised by a different supervisor than the EU parent and when the subsidiary is significant in accordance with Article 6(4) of Regulation (EU) No 1024/2013, the consolidating supervisor shall consult with the competent authority of the home Member State of the significant subsidiary with regard to any decision to be made by the consolidating supervisor pursuant to this Regulation.deleted
2015/02/03
Committee: ECON
Amendment 780 #

2014/0020(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. The joint decision referred to in paragraph 4 subparagraph 1 shall be reached within four months after submission by the consolidating supervisor of a report containing the assessment of the group of institutions in accordance with Article 9 to the other relevant competent authorities. The joint decision shall be set out in documents containing full reasons, which shall be provided to the EU parent institution by the consolidating supervisor. The joint decision shall also duly consider the assessment of subsidiaries performed by relevant competent authorities in accordance with Articles 9 and 10. The joint decision shall be set out in documents containing full reasons which shall be provided to the EU parent institution by the consolidating supervisor.
2015/02/03
Committee: ECON
Amendment 781 #

2014/0020(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. In the absence of such a joint decision between the competent authorities within the time period referred to in paragraph 4a, a decision on the application of Article 10 shall be taken on a consolidated basis by the consolidating supervisor after duly considering the risk assessment of subsidiaries performed by relevant competent authorities. If, at the end of the time period referred to in paragraph 4a, any of the competent authorities concerned has referred the matter to EBA in accordance with Article 19 of Regulation (EU) No 1093/2010, the consolidating supervisor shall defer its decision and await any decision that EBA may take in accordance with Article 19(3) of that Regulation, and shall take its decision in conformity with the decision of EBA. The time period referred to in paragraph 4a, shall be deemed the conciliation periods within the meaning of Regulation (EU) No 1093/2010. EBA shall take its decision within 1 month. The matter shall not be referred to EBA after the end of the four months period or after a joint decision has been reached. In the absence of an EBA decision within one month, the consolidating supervisor and the competent authority of the home member state of the subsidiary shall reach their decisions independently. The decision on the application of Article 10 shall be taken by the respective competent authorities responsible for supervision of subsidiaries of an EU parent credit institution or a EU parent financial holding company or EU parent mixed financial holding company on an individual or sub-consolidated basis after duly considering the views and reservations expressed by the consolidating supervisor. If, at the end of the time period referred to in paragraph 4a, any of the competent authorities concerned has referred the matter to EBA in accordance with Article 19 of Regulation (EU) No 1093/2010, the competent authorities shall defer their decision and await any decision that EBA shall take in accordance with Article 19(3) of that Regulation, and shall take their decision in conformity with the decision of EBA. The time period referred to in paragraph 4a shall be deemed the conciliation period within the meaning of that Regulation. EBA shall take its decision within 1 month. The matter shall not be referred to EBA after the end of the four-month or one-month period, as applicable, or after a joint decision has been reached. In the absence of an EBA decision within one month, the consolidating supervisor and the competent authority of the home member state of the subsidiary shall reach their decisions independently. The decision shall be set out in a document containing full reasons and shall take into account the assessment, views and reservations of the other competent authorities expressed during the time period referred to in paragraph 4a. The document shall be provided by the consolidating supervisor to all competent authorities concerned and to the EU parent institution.
2015/02/03
Committee: ECON
Amendment 782 #

2014/0020(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. The joint decision referred to in paragraph 4, subparagraph 1 and the decisions taken by the competent authorities in the absence of a joint decision referred to in paragraph 4b shall be recognised as determinative and applied by the competent authorities in the Member States concerned. The joint decision referred to in the paragraph 4, subparagraph 1 and any decision taken in the absence of a joint decision in accordance with paragraph 4b, shall be updated on an annual basis or, in exceptional circumstances, where a competent authority responsible for the supervision of subsidiaries of an EU parent institution or, an EU parent financial holding company or EU parent mixed financial holding company makes a written and fully reasoned request to the consolidating supervisor to update the decision on the application of Article 10. In the latter case, the update may be addressed on a bilateral basis between the consolidating supervisor and the competent authority making the request.
2015/02/03
Committee: ECON
Amendment 135 #

2013/0157(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7
(7) In the interest of efficient, safe and environmentally sound port management, the managing body of the port should be able to require that port service providers can demonstrate that they meet minimum requirements to perform the service in an appropriate way. These minimum requirements should be limited to a clearly defined set of conditions concerning the professional qualifications of the operators, including in terms of training, and the equipment required insofar as these requirements are transparent, non-discriminatory, objective and relevant for the provision of the port service.deleted
2015/07/02
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 241 #

2013/0157(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 2 – point c
(c) dredging;deleted
2015/07/02
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 329 #

2013/0157(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1
1. Freedom to provide services in seaports covered by this Regulation shall apply to the providers of port services established in the Union under the conditions set out in this Chapter.
2015/07/02
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 337 #

2013/0157(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1
1. The managing body of the port may require that providers of port services comply with minimum requirements to perform the corresponding port service.deleted
2015/07/02
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 377 #

2013/0157(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6
Limitations of the number of providers of 1. By way of derogation from Article 3, the managing body of the port may limit the number of providers of port service for a given port service for one or several of the following reasons: (a) the scarcity or reserved use of land provided that the managing body can demonstrate that the land constitutes an essential port facility to provide the port service and that the limitation is in accordance with the formal development plan of the port as agreed by the management body of the port and where appropriate any other public competent authorities according to the national legislation; (b) the public service obligations as provided for in Article 8, insofar as the absence of limitation can obstruct the performance of the obligations assigned to the providers of port services. 2. The managing body of the port shall publish any proposal to apply paragraph 1 at least six months in advance together with the grounds justifying it, giving any interested party the opportunity to comment within a reasonable period. 3. The managing body of the port shall publish the adopted decision. 4. When a managing body of a port provides port services itself or through a legally distinct entity which it directly or indirectly controls, the Member State may entrust the adoption of the decision limiting the number of providers of port services to an authority which is independent from the managing body of the port. If the Member State does not entrust the adoption of the decision limiting the number of providers of port services to such an authority, the number of providers shall not be less than two.Article 6 deleted port services
2015/07/02
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 532 #

2013/0157(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 1
This Chapter and the transitional provisions of Article 24 shall not apply to pilotage, cargo handling services and passenger services.
2015/07/02
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 539 #

2013/0157(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 1 a1 (new)
Member States may decide not to apply any limitations and public service obligations to one or more categories of port services. In such cases, this Chapter and the transitional provisions of Article 24 do not apply to such services.
2015/07/02
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 603 #

2013/0157(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 5
5. The Commission shall be empowered to adopt, where necessary, delegated acts in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 21 concerning common classifications of vessels, fuels and types of operations according to which the infrastructure charges can vary and common charging principles for port infrastructure charges.
2015/07/02
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 636 #

2013/0157(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 17
[...]deleted
2015/07/02
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 676 #

2013/0157(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 18
Cooperation between independent 1. The independent supervisory bodies shall exchange information about their work and decision-making principles and practices in order to facilitate a uniform implementation of this Regulation. For this purpose, they shall participate and work together in a network that convenes at regular intervals and at least once a year. The Commission shall participate, coordinate and support the work of the network. 2. The independent supervisory bodies shall cooperate closely for the purposes of mutual assistance in their tasks, including in carrying out investigations required to handle complaints and disputes in cases involving ports in different Member States. For this purpose, an independent supervisory body shall make available to another such body, after a substantiated request, the information necessary to allow that body to fulfil its responsibilities under this Regulation. 3. The Member States shall ensure that the independent supervisory bodies shall provide the Commission, after a reasoned request, with the information necessary for it to carry its tasks. The information requested by the Commission shall be proportionate to the performance of those tasks. 4. Where information is considered confidential by the independent supervisory body in accordance with Union or national rules on business confidentiality, the other national supervisory body and the Commission shall ensure such confidentiality. This information may only be used for the purpose which it was requested. 5. Based on the experience of the independent supervisory bodies and on the activities of the network referred to in paragraph 1, and in order to ensure efficient cooperation, the Commission may adopt common principles on the appropriate arrangements for the exchange of information between independent supervisory bodies. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 22(2).Article 18 deleted supervisory bodies
2015/07/02
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 684 #

2013/0157(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 19
1. Any party with a legitimate interest shall have the right to appeal against the decisions or individual measures taken under this Regulation by the competent authorities, by the managing body of the port or by the independent supervisory body to an appeal body which is independent of the parties involved. This appeal body may be a court. 2. Where the appeal body referred in paragraph 1 is not judicial in character, it shall give reasons in writing for its decisions. Its decisions shall also be subject to review by a national court.Article 19 deleted Appeals
2015/07/02
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 690 #

2013/0157(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 21
1. The power to adopt delegated acts is conferred on the Commission subject to the conditions laid down in this Article. 2. The power to adopt delegated acts referred to in Article 14 shall be conferred on the Commission for an indeterminate period of time. 3. The delegation of power referred to in Article 14 may be revoked at any time by the European Parliament or by the Council. A decision of revocation shall put an end to the delegation of the power specified in that decision. It shall take effect the day following the publication of the decision in the Official Journal of the European Union or at a later date specified therein. It shall not affect the validity of any delegated acts already in force. 4. As soon as it adopts a delegated act, the Commission shall notify it simultaneously to the European Parliament and to the Council. 5. A delegated act adopted pursuant to Article 14 shall enter into force only if no objection has been expressed either by the European Parliament or the Council within a period of 2 months of notification of that act to the European Parliament and the Council or if, before the expiry of that period, the European Parliament and the Council have both informed the Commission that they will not object. That period shall be extended by 2 months at the initiative of the European Parliament or the Council.1 deleted Exercise of the delegation
2015/07/02
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 696 #

2013/0157(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 22
1. The Commission shall be assisted by a committee. That committee shall be a committee within the meaning of Regulation (EU) No 182/2011. 2. Where reference is made to this paragraph, Article 5 of Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 shall apply.Article 22 deleted Committee procedure
2015/07/02
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 704 #

2013/0157(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 24 – paragraph 2
2. Port service contracts concluded before [date of adoption of the Regulation] which do not meet the conditions provided in paragraph 1 shall remain valid until they expire but not after 1 July 20235.
2015/07/02
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 41 #

2008/2156(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Notes that the main elements of the SGP must also be consistently adhered to in the future, since both the criterion of 3 % and that of a maximum national debt of 60 % were specified on the basis of the economic conditions in the 1990s, and lower growth rates would necessitate substantially stricter criteria; is of the opinion that the SGP must be adhered to strictly by the Member States and supervised by the Commissiono as to achieve and maintain the medium-term objective of a balanced budget with surpluses in 'good times' and deficits allowed only during 'bad times' in order to ensure that fiscal policy is anticyclical; is of the opinion that both the 3 % deficit and 60 % debt targets should be treated as exceptional maximum limits to be avoided if possible; stresses that the SGP must be adhered to strictly by the Member States and supervised by the Commission; calls on the Commission to examine all possible ways in which the preventive arm of the SGP could be strengthened; notes that an effective coordination of economic and financial policy is desirable within the EMU, although it should respect the principle of subsidiarity; stresses that existing supervisory instruments must be used better by the Commission and that the medium-term examination of national budgets by the Eurogroup has to be strengthened;
2008/09/03
Committee: ECON
Amendment 45 #

2008/2156(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. Considers that a sustainable and stable macro-economic environment requires improving the quality of public finances including further budgetary consolidation, and developing an intelligent private and public investment policy that delivers forward-looking infrastructure which will open up tomorrow’s marketshigh efficiency of public spending and enhanced investment in education, human capital, R&D and infrastructure that is conducive to growth and might stimulate employment;
2008/09/03
Committee: ECON
Amendment 51 #

2008/2156(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Considers wage and tax policy as efficient tools both for economic stabilisation and growth; is of the view that real wage increases in line with inflation and productivity levels should be ensured and that coordination of tax policy should be selectively used to achieve the economic goals; considers that the fight against tax fraud, both on direct and indirect taxes, is particularly important and that this work should be stepped up; underlines the urgent need to strengthen a culture of encouragement and involvement as part of the concepts of corporate governance and corporate social responsibility;
2008/09/03
Committee: ECON
Amendment 69 #

2008/2156(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
19. Notes that the primary objective of the ECB’s monetary policy is to maintain price stability, and that the ECB aims at inflation rates of below, but close to, 2 % over the medium term; considers that this definition of price stability should be examined in the context of increased heterogeneity of the euro area and a new age of globalisation characterised by rising energy and food prices;
2008/09/03
Committee: ECON
Amendment 76 #

2008/2156(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
20. Is of the opinion that the ECB should move towards a fulldirect inflation targeting regime, where a shift to a range of targets might be more meaningful than a point target inflation rate, and should makepoint inflation target is supplemented by a range of permitted fluctuations around the target rate; invites the ECB to publicsh its inflation forecasts;
2008/09/03
Committee: ECON
Amendment 91 #

2008/2156(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
32. Stresses the fact that accession to the euro area requires full adherence to the Maastricht criteria, as specified in the Treaty and the Protocol to Article 121 of the Treaty, namely: a high degree of price stability, public finances without excessive deficit, membership in the ERM II for at least two years, observation of the normal fluctuation margins, adjustment of the long-term interest rates, compatibility of the legal rules with the Maastricht Treaty, and an independent central bank and sustainable convergence;
2008/09/03
Committee: ECON
Amendment 95 #

2008/2156(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
33. Welcomes the stronger supervision of Member States participating in ERM II and wishing to join the euro area , as well as their economic development; notes that the successful participation in the ERM II must remain a major precondition and not only a secondary requirement for membership of the euro area; is of the opinion that a high degree of real convergence is a precondition for adoption of the euro and therefore that no 'accession discounts' can be givenunderstood as a high degree of synchronisation of the business cycle is an important factor ensuring the full benefits from the adoption of the euro; deems it worth considering the measurement of the inflation criteria at the EMU average or the ECB inflation goal of 2 %;
2008/09/03
Committee: ECON
Amendment 98 #

2008/2156(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
34. Regards an enduring and successful expansion of the euro area as a major challenge for the coming years, whereby both institutional standards for the ECB and the decision-making process of the ECB have to be adapted to this change and the rotation model has to be examined in favour of the two main Member States participating in the euro area;
2008/09/03
Committee: ECON
Amendment 116 #

2008/2156(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 41 – point f
(f) A long-term strategy to reduce national debts tobelow a maximum of 60 percent should be included in the framework for economic governance as it would reduce cost of servicing debt and lower cost of capital for private investments;
2008/09/03
Committee: ECON
Amendment 5 #

2008/2085(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital A
A. Whereas the ECJ recognizes the right to take collective action and free movement of workers as fundamental rights; that is anese rights will also become integral part of the general principles of Community law; this right will also become primary law with the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty,
2008/06/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 10 #

2008/2085(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B
B. Whereas the Commission’s report on industrial relations in Europe 2006 shows that highly developed collective bargaining has a positive influence on social inclusion while the findings of comparative studies are relatively modest on the impact of industrial relations on growth and economic performance,
2008/06/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 17 #

2008/2085(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital D
D. Whereas the objective of the PWD - the abolition, as between Member States, of obstacles to the free movement of persons and services and to provide for a climate of fair competition and measures guaranteeing respect for the rights of workers – is more important than ever; in an economic era in which transnational provision of services is expanding, the PWD is expected to play a key-role in protecting the workers concerned, while respecting the framework of labour law and industrial relations of Member States,
2008/06/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 40 #

2008/2085(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital L
L. Whereas the ECJ in both the Laval and Rüffert cases made a completely different interpretation of European legislation than the advocate generalindicated that the posting of workers directive has not been properly implemented in respectively Sweden and Germany, therefore unequal treatment of workers was possible,
2008/06/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 46 #

2008/2085(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital M
M. Whereas the ECJ in both the Laval and Rüffert cases has made a narrow interpretation of the possibilities for trade unions to demand better conditions for posted workers,deleted
2008/06/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 50 #

2008/2085(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital N
N. Whereas the ECJ in the Rüffert case has significantly diminished the scope for Member States to regulate their collective bargaining and also narrows down the purpose of the PWD, neglecting the PWD’s two fold aim – protection of workers and free movement,deleted
2008/06/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 61 #

2008/2085(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital O
O. Whereas the ECJ in the Viking case introduces a horizontal direct effect of Articles 43 and 49 which can be used by employers and service providers to challenge collective agreements and industrial actions with a cross-border effect; the autonomy for collective bargaining from competition rules is thereby not extended to the field of free movement with a risk that industrial relations in the Member States will be put under legal scrutiny; consequently, this new uncertainty in industrial relations could result in a “flood” of cases to the ECJhas also indicated that the posting of workers directive should be properly implemented,
2008/06/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 73 #

2008/2085(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Underlines that the freedom to provide services is a cornerstone of the European project; however, this has to be bal, which is accompancied againstnd complemented by fundamental rights and the possibility for governments and trade unions to ensure non-discrimination and equal treatment;
2008/06/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 119 #

2008/2085(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Emphasises that equal treatment, equal pay for equal work as well as Articles. 39 and 12 of the EC Treaty form the foundation of EC law which needs to be restored;
2008/06/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 126 #

2008/2085(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Underlines the importance of not allowing the verdicts to negatively effectfurther promoting labour market models that already today are able to combine a high degree of flexibility on the labour market with a high level of security and, instead, of further promoting this approach;,
2008/06/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 135 #

2008/2085(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Underlines that the intention of the legislator in the PWD and Service Directive is not reflected in the ECJ verdicts, which, instead of protecting workers, is inviting unfair competition between companies; companies that sign and follow collective agreements will have a competitive disadvantage to companies that refuse to do so;deleted
2008/06/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 141 #

2008/2085(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Regrets that still several Member States have not properly implemented the posting of workers directive, which in some cases may result in unequal treatment of posted workers;
2008/06/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 150 #

2008/2085(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Regrets thatWelcomes all conditions imposoffered ton foreign employeres above minimum levels are seen as obstacles to free movement,, especially if employees do not already receive more favourable conditions in the country of origin;
2008/06/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 155 #

2008/2085(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. Questions the introduction of a proportionality principle in the Viking case for the right to use collective action against undertakings which, when using the right of establishment or the right to provide services across borders, deliberately undercut terms and conditions of employment; such a proportionality principle is not compatible with the character of this right as a fundamental right; there should be no question about the right of trade unions to use industrial action to uphold equal treatment and secure decent working conditions;deleted
2008/06/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 169 #

2008/2085(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. Emphasises that the PWD as interpreted by the ECJ woulddoes not prevent to demands for equal pay for work for all workers regardless of their nationality or that of their employer in the place where the service is provided; this runs counter to the principle of non-discrimination which is established in the Treaty especially with regard to the mobility of workers only if the PWD is properly implemented in all Member States of the European Union;
2008/06/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 176 #

2008/2085(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Regrets the fact that even though the PWD was formulated as a minimum standard directive, the ECJ determines that those minimum standards must be regarded as the maximum in the context of the Laval judgement; this approach causes great concerns as to whether any directives decided on the basis of a minimum approach are regarded as valid; if all directives in the social dimension were to be reformulated as maximum directives, as in the case of the PWD, the consequences would be enormous;deleted
2008/06/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 196 #

2008/2085(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Is of the opinion that the limited legal basis of free movement of the PWD has led the ECJ to interpret the PWD in this way, creating an explicit invitation to uUnfair competition on wages and working conditions driving them downwards, which is in clear contradiction to the stated aim of the PWD (to ensure a climate of fair competition) and the objective of the EU as established in the Treaty (improvement of living and working conditions); therefore, the legal basis of the PWD must be broadened to include a reference to the free movement of workers is caused by non-compliance with the PWD;
2008/06/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 209 #

2008/2085(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
16. Emphasises that unless the PWD is properly implemented the current situation could lead to a situation where workers in host countries will be pressured by low wage competition; this, in turn, could lead to xenophobia and counterproductive anger against the EU;
2008/06/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 211 #

2008/2085(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
17. Regrets that the ECJ fails to consider ILO convention 94, and fears that the ECJ judgement in Rüffert may impede the ratification of ILO 94; this would be counter to the further development of social clauses in public procurement regulations, which is an aim of the Public procurement directive 2004;deleted
2008/06/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 221 #

2008/2085(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
18. Regrets that the ECJ fails to recognise ILO conventions 87 and 98; restrictions on the right to industrial action and fundamental rights can only be motivated with respect to health, public order and similar concerns;deleted
2008/06/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 241 #

2008/2085(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
20. Underlines that the ECJ has interpreted EU legislation in a way that was not the intention of the legislators; cCalls on the Commission, the Council and the EP to take immediate action to ensure the necessary changes in EU legislation to change the new practise of the ECJimplementation of the PWD in those countries that has so far failed to do so;
2008/06/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 246 #

2008/2085(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
21. Therefore calls on the Commission to take immediate action to make necessary changes in European legislation in order to counter the possible detrimental social, economical and political effects of the ECJ judgements;deleted
2008/06/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 259 #

2008/2085(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
22. Therefore welcomes the Commission's statement from 3 April 2008 which clearly states that they will cits readiness to take concrete actiont inue to fight social dumping and that the freedom to provide services is not superior to the fundamental rights of trade unions order to remedy shortcomings in the implementation and enforcement of the posting of workers directive; the Recommendation aims at creating better administrative cooperation between Member States in order to ensure better protection of posted workers' rights and more effective cross-border enforcement;
2008/06/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 266 #

2008/2085(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
23. Therefore calls on the Commission to review the PWD and consider the following issues: - a new legal basis for the PWD to better protect workers; workers posted within the framework of services should be regarded as using the right of freedom of movement of workers and not the free movement of services; - a possibility in the Directive for Member States to refer in law or collective agreements to the 'habitual wages' applicable in the place of work in the host country as defined in the ILO 94 and not only ‘minimum’ rates of pay; - a limit to the period of time during which workers can be considered as being 'posted' to a Member State other than the Member State of their ordinary place of work in the framework of services; after that period the rules on free movement of workers should apply, i.e. host country rules with regard to wages and working conditions have full application; - an even clearer expression that the Directive and other EU legislation do not prohibit Member States and trade unions from demanding more favourable conditions for the worker; and - the recognition of a wider range of methods of organizing labour markets than those currently covered by Article 3(8);deleted
2008/06/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 292 #

2008/2085(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
25. Would welcome a move to summarize the social clauses that exist in the Monti directive and in the Service directive in a social clause, either through a protocol attached to the Treaty or in an inter- institutional agreement;deleted
2008/06/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 1 #

2008/0095(CNS)

Proposal for a decision
Citation 5 a (new)
– having regard to its resolution of 12 July 2007 on the 2007 annual report on the eurozone1, ____________ 1 Texts Adopted, P6_TA(2007)0348.
2008/05/26
Committee: ECON
Amendment 2 #

2008/0095(CNS)

Proposal for a decision
Recital A (new)
A. whereas Slovakia has complied with the Maastricht criteria as specified in the Article 121 of the EC Treaty and the accompanying Protocol on the convergence criteria,
2008/05/26
Committee: ECON
Amendment 4 #

2008/0095(CNS)

Proposal for a decision
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that the ECB Convergence Report identifies risks concerning the sustainability of the low inflation criterionrate achieved and urges the necessary steps to be taken to avoid inflation;
2008/05/26
Committee: ECON
Amendment 6 #

2008/0095(CNS)

Proposal for a decision
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Notes that Article 121 of the EC Treaty defines the achievement of a high degree of sustainable convergence by reference to the fulfilment by each Member State of the following criteria: the achievement of a high degree of price stability; the sustainability of the government financial position; the observance of the normal fluctuation margins provided for by the exchange rate mechanism and the durability of convergence achieved by the Member State and of its participation in the exchange rate mechanism of the European Monetary System being reflected in the long-term interest rate levels;
2008/05/26
Committee: ECON
Amendment 7 #

2008/0095(CNS)

Proposal for a decision
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Calls on the government of Slovakia to ensure, with the cooperation of the central bank of Slovakia, a stable low inflation environment, which can be achieved through further fiscal consolidation, and a sufficiently tight fiscal policy with the aim of balancing the budget in the medium term; calls on the social partners in Slovakia to keep wage growth in line with productivity growth in the foreseeable future;
2008/05/26
Committee: ECON
Amendment 12 #

2008/0095(CNS)

Proposal for a decision
Paragraph 5
5. Reiterates its strongly held opinion that the Council and the Commission should adopt the position that any excessive deficit procedure concerning a Member State must have been closed before compliance with the Maastricht criteria is assessed as prescribed in Article 2 of the Protocol No 21 on the convergence criteria, referred to in Article 121 of the EC Treaty; regrets that the Commission has, again, failed correctly to apply the Treaty in this regard;
2008/05/26
Committee: ECON
Amendment 14 #

2008/0095(CNS)

Proposal for a decision
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on the government of Slovakia to ensure the continuation of necessary structural reforms in the labour, services and product market, ensuring in particular increased labour mobility and investment in human capital; calls on the government of Slovakia to ensure competition, particularly in sensitive sectors like energy;
2008/05/26
Committee: ECON
Amendment 15 #

2008/0095(CNS)

Proposal for a decision
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Is concerned about low support for the euro among Slovak citizens; calls on the authorities of Slovakia, therefore, to step up public information campaign aimed at explaining the benefits of the single currency and undertake all necessary steps in order to minimise price increases during the changeover period;
2008/05/26
Committee: ECON
Amendment 21 #

2008/0095(CNS)

Proposal for a decision
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls on the Commission and the ECB to consider all aspects when recommending the final exchange rate for the Slovak koruna;
2008/05/26
Committee: ECON
Amendment 13 #

2007/2118(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Is of the opinion that Nord Stream is an infrastructure project with a wide political and strategic dimension for both the EU and Russia; underlines that it is primarily driven by Russian commercial and political interests, aimed at delivering gas straight from Russia to Wwestern Europe, bypassing the transit statesMember States of the European Union, bypassing the transit Member States of the EU; considers, therefore, that in its currently proposed form the project undermines the security of gas supply to several eastern Member States of the European Union; underlines that this project increases Russia's energy leverage over the EU and its neighbours and decreases the ability of small littoral states to act as security providers in the Baltic Sea region; considers that since the project goes against the priorities of several EU Member States, it undermines the EU's ability to act as a unified entity and speak with one voice on energy issues;
2008/04/18
Committee: AFET
Amendment 50 #

2007/2118(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission, while assessing the planned gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea, to establish solutions that would guarantee security of energy supply to all EU Member States, including the eastern Member States, whose security of gas supply is threatened under the current proposal; points out that the project, aimed at delivering gas to some Member States and at the same time threatening the security of gas supply of other Member States, undermines the energy solidarity and the unity of the European Union; considers that the Member States should actively consider enacting legislation which includes geopolitical security aspects of energy agreements;
2008/04/18
Committee: AFET
Amendment 345 #

2007/0143(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 98 – paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. At least half of the Solvency Capital Requirement shall be covered by basic own funds.
2008/06/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 587 #

2007/0143(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 236 – paragraph 1
1. By way of derogation from Articles 37 and 229, the Solvency Capital Requirement of the subsidiary shall be calculated as set out in paragraphs 2, 3 and 4.deleted
2008/06/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 592 #

2007/0143(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 236 – paragraph 2
2. Where the Solvency Capital Requirement of the subsidiary is calculated on the basis of an internal model approved at group level in accordance with Article 229 and the supervisory authority having authorised the subsidiary considers that its risk profile deviates significantly from this internal model, and as long as that undertaking does not properly address the concerns of the supervisory authority, that authority may, in the cases referred to in Article 37, propose toafter informing the group supervisor to, impose a capital add-on to the Solvency Capital Requirement of that subsidiary resulting from the application of such model, or, in exceptional circumstances where such capital add-on would not be appropriate, to require that undertaking to calculate its Solvency Capital Requirement on the basis of the standard formula. The supervisory authority that authorised the subsidiary shall communicate the grounds for such proposaldecisions to both the subsidiary and the group supervisor.
2008/06/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 597 #

2007/0143(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 236 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
3. Where the Solvency Capital Requirement of the subsidiary is calculated on the basis of the standard formula and the supervisory authority having authorised the subsidiary considers that its risk profile deviates significantly from the assumptions underlying the standard formula, and as long as that undertaking does not properly address the concerns of the supervisory authority, that authority may, in the cases referred to in Article 37, propose toafter informing the group supervisor to, impose a capital add- on to the Solvency Capital Requirement of that subsidiary.
2008/06/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 600 #

2007/0143(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 236 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2
The supervisory authority that authorised the subsidiary shall communicate the grounds for such proposala decision to both the subsidiary and the group supervisor.
2008/06/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 604 #

2007/0143(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 236 – paragraph 4
4. Where the supervisory authority and the group supervisor disagree, or in the absence of a decision from the group supervisor within one month from the proposal of the supervisory authority, the matter shall be referred for consultation to the Committee of European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Supervisors, which shall give its advice within two months. The group supervisor shall duly consider such advice before taking its final decision. The decision shall be submitted to the subsidiary and the supervisory authority by the group supervisor. In the absence of a final decision from the group supervisor within one month from the date of the advice of the Committee of European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Supervisors, the proposal from the supervisory authority shall be deemed to have been accepted.deleted
2008/06/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 626 #

2007/0143(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 237 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
1. By way of derogation from Article 98(4), anyAt most half of the difference between the Solvency Capital Requirement and the minimum capital requirement of the subsidiary shall be covered by either own funds eligible under Article 98(4) or group support, or any combination thereofgroup support.
2008/06/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 631 #

2007/0143(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 237 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
The group support shall, for the purposes of the classification of own funds into tiers in accordance with Articles 93 to 96, be treated as ancillary own funds belonging to Tier 3.
2008/06/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 669 #

2007/0143(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 238 – paragraph 1
1. By way of derogation from Article 136, the supervisory authority having authorised the subsidiary shall not be responsible for enforcing its Solvency Capital Requirement by taking measures at the level of the subsidiary. That supervisory authority shall however continue to monitor the Solvency Capital Requirement of the subsidiary as set out in paragraphs 2 and 3.deleted
2008/06/30
Committee: ECON