2 Amendments of Hans-Peter MARTIN related to 2013/2122(INI)
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Believes that the national focal points should play an active role in sharing information between public authorities, citizens and businesses, and should work together in order to warn each other of new misleading practices and assist SMEs in the settlement of crossborder disputes by directing defrauded companies to the most appropriate legal mechanism; stresses that these national focal points should also be able to take legal action themselves against misleading practices and fraudulently operating companies;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Draws attention, in particular, to the role played by fraudulent debt collection agencies which do not hesitate to put pressure on businesses to pay invoices which they know or could have known to be fraudulent; calls on the Commission and the Member States to propose means of better controlling such agencies, both before and after their formal establishment; calls on the Commission to look into the need for new regulations governing debt collection agencies;