8 Amendments of Othmar KARAS related to 2010/2051(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 11 a (new)
Citation 11 a (new)
having regard to the Commission communication of 25 June 2008 entitled “Think Small First” - A “Small Business Act” for Europe (COM(2008)0394),
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas principle VII of the “Small Business Act” underlines the importance of promoting SME's participation and defence of SME's interests in standardisation,
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Endorses the Commission's intention to integrate in the legal framework of European standardisation the principles of the World Trade Organization's agreement on technical barriers to trade (transparency, openness, impartiality, consensus, efficiencyectiveness, relevance and consistherencye) in order to reinforce their application within the European Standardisation System;
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Supports, therefore, the Commission’s intention to include service standards in the legal framework of European standardisation, as this will not only ensure the notification of all national service standards that could potentially constitute technical barriers to trade in the internal market, but alsoefforts made by professional bodies to draw up quality charters and labels that apply alongside national and European law governing the professions, and the Commission’s intention to include service standards in the legal framework of European standardisation in the case of services for which standardisation is possible and which do not have quality charters drawn up by professional organisations; stresses that there are definable and indefinable services, whereby highly qualified intellectual and spiritual services are not definable in Europe's understanding of the law, and standardisation in this area can apply only to the framework conditions (technical and actual preconditions, etc); believes that service standards which meet these criteria may provide a proper legal basis on which the Commission can request the European standardisation organisations (ESOs) – namely CEN, CENELEC and the European Telecom Standards Institute (ETSI) – to develop standards in the services sector;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Stresses the need, which has been recognised since the 1990s, to ensure direct participation by societal stakeholders at European level in order to reflect their views more effectively, given that their representation on national technical committees remains weak; affirms that, as very limited progress has beenmore progress needs to be made to increase societal stakeholder participation at national level, financial and political support for the European organisations established to represent such stakeholders needs to be maintained at least in the period to 2020;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Stresses the need, which has been recognised since the 1990s, to ensure direct participation by societal stakeholders and SMEs at European level in order to reflect their views more effectively, given that their representation on national technical committees remains weak; affirms that, as very limited progress has been made to increase SMEs and societal stakeholder participation at national level, financial and political support for the European organisations established to represent such stakeholders needs to be maintained at least in the period to 2020;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Asks the Commission and the ESOs to promote training programmes and to take all measures needed to enable weaker NSBs, which do not currently run technical-committee secretariats,participate in European standardisation work at a level commensurate with their economic structure to assume a more active role in the standardisation process;
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Regrets that public authorities in mostsome Member States show limited interest in participating in the standards-development process, notwithstanding the importance of standardisation as a tool to support legislation and public policies; urges Member States, and in particular market surveillance authorities, to send representatives to take part in all national technical committees mirroring the development of standards in support of EU policies and legislation; stresses that the presence of national authorities in the debate on standards development is crucial for the proper functioning of legislation in the areas covered by the "New Approach", and for the avoidance of ex-post formal objections to harmonised standards;