Activities of Georgios PAPASTAMKOS related to 2008/2204(INI)
Reports (1)
REPORT Report on International Trade and the Internet PDF (219 KB) DOC (160 KB)
Amendments (12)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation -1 a (new)
Citation -1 a (new)
-1a. having regard to Directive 2000/31/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8 June 2000 on certain legal aspects of information society services, in particular electronic commerce, in the Internal Market ('Directive on electronic commerce')1,
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation -1 b (new)
Citation -1 b (new)
-1b. having regard to the Geneva Ministerial Declaration on Global Electronic Commerce of the Second Session of the Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), adopted on 20 May 19982,
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation -1 c (new)
Citation -1 c (new)
-1c. having regard to point 46 on E- commerce of the Hong Kong Ministerial Declaration on the Doha Work Programme of the Sixth Session of the Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), adopted on 18 December 20051,
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation -1 d (new)
Citation -1 d (new)
-1d. having regard to the submission from the European Communities regarding the "Classification Issues and the Work Programme on Electronic Commerce" to the World Trade Organisation (WTO, on 9 May 20032,
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation -1 e (new)
Citation -1 e (new)
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation -1 f (new)
Citation -1 f (new)
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas more than half of EU citizens and nearly 1.5 billion people worldwide have access to the Internet; whereas only one out of fivthree EU citizens conducts on- line purchases, but only 30 million do cross- border shopping in the EU,
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)
Recital K a (new)
Ka. whereas it has been observed that according to the national law of important EU trading partners, a telecommunications licence has to be obtained first in order to provide e- commerce services, creating thus an unnecessary obligation especially in view of the complex procedures which apply for granting these licences,
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N a (new)
Recital N a (new)
Na. whereas non-EU companies dominate the Internet marketplace, due to the European market fragmentation which leaves its industry without access to a Europe-wide market, as opposed to North- American and North-East Asian competitors who can make economies of scale and obtain returns on their investment in their large domestic markets without undue barriers,
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Emphasises the fact that bilateral and regional free trade agreements cannot provide complete answers to far-reaching market access; nevertheless, calls on the EU to include systematically in its bilateral and regional trade agreements explicit provisions covering e-commerce of goods, services and information flows; supports the efforts made by the EU to establish cooperation dialogues on regulatory issues as part of its bilateral agreements with third country trading partners; upon reaching these agreements, calls relevant EU institutions and EU Member States to be prepared to contribute to these cooperation dialogues;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Stresses that attention needs to be focused on the provision of online services including e-commerce not being subject to unnecessary domestic authorisation procedures [both in the EU and in our trading partners' countries] which would result in a de facto impediment of the provision of such services;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Believes that the participation of the least developed and other developing countries in international trade through the Internet has to be supported through increased investment primarily in basic infrastructure such as telecommunication networks and access devices; underlines the need for low cost and better quality provision of internet services; is of the opinion that, in those cases where domestic capital is not available, further market openness in telecommunications services reflected in multilateral and bilateral agreements could provide the right incentives for attracting foreign capital to invest in these networks; supports the idea that such investments could also relate to alternative innovative technologies which can, in certain cases, be rapidly integrated in these markets;