12 Amendments of Emmanouil ANGELAKAS related to 2008/2057(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses the importance of bringingenabling citizens to benefit fully from the benefits of the Internal Market closer to citizens, and sees the Scoreboard as an important tool to this end;
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Underlines that the Scoreboards is in its infancy and needs to be further developed with more complete data, more precise statistics and further analyses based on the various indicators; calls on the Commission to ensure adequate financing and staffing to these ends;
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Stresses that when a satisfactory level of development of the five basic indicators of the Scoreboard is reached, new indicators should be elaborated in order to make the Internal Market more responsive to the expectations and concerns of citizens;
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Calls on the Commission to ensure adequate financing and staffing for the purposes referred to in paragraphs 3 and 3a;
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Encourages the Commission to ensure a coherent and coordinated approach within its services in order to avoid duplication of work and contradictory outcomes of data analysis;
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to include an easily comprehensible summary as well as clear conclusions and recommendations in future Scoreboards, translated into all official languages of the European Union;
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Takes the view that an indicator related to complaints is essential to understand consumer satisfaction; calls on the Commission and the Member States to work towards a harmonisation of the complaint classification systems in use in the various consumer assistance services in the Member States and at Community levelused by the various regulators in the Member States and at Community level; calls on Member States to raise consumer awareness of complaints systems and to improve the handling of complaints in order to enable economic operators to offer a wider choice of better services;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Takes the view that indicators relating to consumer literacy and, skills and age could be included in the Scoreboard (for example level of education, computer literacy and foreign language skills); underlines, however, the importance of striking a balance between indicators based on 'soft' data stemming from consumer surveys and 'hard' data based on other sources;
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Acknowledges that developing precise and adequate price indicators is a very complex issue as differences in price levels may have a number of causes and their existence is as such not proof of market failure; however, holds the view that the Scoreboard should include price indicators, as prices are of key concern to consumers and price indicators are important to stimulate debate and ensure media awareness; calls on the Commission to establish an objective ratio between prices and the macroeconomic climate in the Member States in order to take into account consumers' purchasing power and pre-tax prices;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Underlines the importance of close cooperation between the statistical offices of the Member States, Eurostat and other Commission services in ensuring the quality and completeness of figures; calls on the Member States to take steps to facilitate such cooperation;
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Encourages Member States to explore the merits of establishing a special Consumer Ombudsman; notes that a number of Member States have consumer ombudsmen in several sectors who help consumers to deal with economic operators;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to raise awareness of the Scoreboard, inter alia by ensuring that it is easily accessible and visible on relevant websites, and to increase efforts to promote the Scoreboard to the media, public authorities and consumer organisations;