2 Amendments of Inese VAIDERE related to 2013/0264(COD)
Amendment 124 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) Establishing an integrated single market for electronic payments is crucial in order to support the growth of the EU economy and to ensure that consumers, merchants and companies enjoy the full benefits of the internal market, given the development of the digital economy.
Amendment 135 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 8
Recital 8
(8) The revised regulatory framework for payment services is complemented by Regulation (EU) [XX/XX/XX] of the European Parliament and of the Council26. That Regulation introduces rules with regard to the charging of multilateral and bilateral interchange fees for all consumer debit and credit card transactions and electronic and mobile payments based on those transactions thus removing an important barrier between national payment markets, and puts restrictions on the use of certain business rules with regard to card transactions. That Regulation aims at further accelerating the achievement of an effective integrated market for card based payments. __________________ 26 Regulation (EU) No [XX/XX/XX/] of the European Parliament and of the Council [date] on interchange fees for card-based payment transactions (OJ L x, p. x).