Activities of Silvia-Adriana ȚICĂU related to 2012/2067(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Passenger rights in all transport modes (short presentation)
Amendments (7)
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Welcomes the Commission’s new smartphone application, which provides information about passenger rights in several languages and in a format accessible to passengers with disabilities; calls on the Member States and carriers to press ahead with the development and use of similar modern technologies (including SMS and the use of social networks); calls on the public authorities, consumer protection bodies and organisations representing the interests of all passengers to launch similar initiatives;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Recommends that adequately staffed info points and help desks, which are also well equipped to meet the needs of persons with reduced mobility be set up at places of departure and arrival (airports, railway stations, bus terminals, and ports) and that both carriers and the operators of the above facilities provide more comprehensive assistance to passengers, for example in the event of massive travel disruption;
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Commission to enable the current law on price transparency and unfair commercial practices to be implemented and enforced effectively, in accordance with Directive 2011/83/EC, and to ensure that the headline price corresponds exactly to the final price and that no unreasonable extra costs (e.g. handling charges or a charge for payment by credit card) are added just before a purchase is made and that all non optional operational costs are included in the tariffs and indicated/distributed with the required information;
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Calls on the Commission to address the proliferation of unfair terms in air carrier contracts such as the unfair requirement that passengers must use the outgoing part of a return ticket in order to be able to use the return part and that they must use all the tickets for a journey in consecutive order;
Amendment 159 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to ensure that airlines respect passenger rights and to ban practices involving the negotiation by airlines with passengers affected by delays or cancellations of parts of their journey of compensation payments below specific statutory EU levels;
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Calls on the Commission to consider what action to take should airlines go bankrupt,submit a legislative proposal encompassing suitable measures to protect passengers against the insolvency, bankruptcy or financial losses of airlines or package holiday companies and draws attention in this connection to its resolution of 25 November 2009;:
Amendment 208 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a Urges carriers to take into account the needs of persons with disabilities or reduced mobility in launching new services;