9 Amendments of Renato BRUNETTA related to 2007/0248(COD)
Amendment 24 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Recital 12
Recital 12
(12) Providers of electronic communications services should ensure that their customers are adequately informed as to whether or not access to emergency services is provided, and are given clear and transparent information in the initial customer contract and at regular intervals thereafter, for example in customer billing information. Equally, where an opt-out system is not adopted in a particular Member State, customers should, in the interest of ensuring comprehensive directory services, at the very least be properly informed of their rights to be included in directory databases and granted an effective opportunity to exercise that right both initially and during the contractual relationship. Hence, customers should be expressly asked at the moment of requesting a service, and at regular intervals thereafter, whether and how they wish relevant information to be included in directory databases. Since mechanisms are available for including information in the directory database without that information being disclosed to users of directory services, hence facilitating more comprehensive directory services without compromising privacy, customers should also be offered this option by access operators. Customers should also be kept well informed of possible actions that the provider of electronic communications service may take to address security threats or in response to a security or integrity incident, since such actions could have a direct or indirect impact on the customer’s data, privacy or other aspects of the service provided.
Amendment 25 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Recital 14
Recital 14
(14) A competitive market should ensure that end-users are able to access and distribute any lawful content and to use any lawful applications and/or services of their choice, as stated in Article 8 of Directive 2002/21/EC. Given the increasing importance of electronic communications for consumers and businesses, users should in any case be fully informed of any restrictions and/or limitations imposed on the use of electronic communications services by the service and/or network provider. Where there is a lack of effective competition, national regulatory authorities should use the remedies available to them in Directive 2002/19/EC to ensure that users’ access to particular types of content, services or applications is not unreasonably restricted and, for instance, that unreasonable wholesale access terms are addressed.
Amendment 26 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Recital 15
Recital 15
(15) The availability of transparent, up-to- date and comparable tariffs is a key element for consumers in competitive markets with several providers offering services. Consumers of electronic communications services should be able to easily compare prices of various services offered on the market based on tariff information published in an easily accessible form. In order to allow them to make price comparisons easily, national regulatory authorities should have powers to require from operators better tariff transparency and to ensure that third parties have the right to use without charge publicly available tariffs published by undertakings providing electronic communications services. They should also make price guides available where the market has not provided them. Operators should not be entitled to any remuneration for such use of tariffs which had already been published and thus belong to the public domain. In addition, users should be adequately informed of the price involved or the type of service offered before they purchase a service, in particular if a freephone number is subject to any additional charges. The Commission should be able to adopt technical implementing measuresFreephone numbers should not be subject to any additional charges. The Commission should adopt measures to ensure that access operators provide reasonable terms for access in order to ensure that end-users benefit from a consistent approach to tariff transparency in the Communitythe full benefit of competition in services, in particular directory enquiries.
Amendment 28 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Recital 18 a (new)
Recital 18 a (new)
(18a) Directory enquiry services should be, and frequently are, provided in competition, pursuant to Article 5 of Commission Directive 2002/77/EC of 16 September 2002 on competition in the markets for electronic communications networks and services1. Wholesale measures ensuring the inclusion of end- user data (both fixed and mobile) in databases, the cost-oriented supply of that data to service providers and the provision of network access in cost-oriented, reasonable and transparent conditions should be in place in order to ensure end users the full benefit of competition with the aim ultimately of enabling the removal of retail regulation from this service. 1 OJ L 249, 17.9.2002, p. 21.
Amendment 54 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 12
Article 1 – point 12
Directive 2002/22/EC
Article 20 – paragraph 7 a (new)
Article 20 – paragraph 7 a (new)
Amendment 62 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 15 – point a a (new)
Article 1 – point 15 – point a a (new)
Directive 2002/22/EC
Article 25 – paragraph 1
Article 25 – paragraph 1
(aa) Article 25(1) is replaced by the following: "1. Member States shall ensure that all end-users of electronic communications networks and services either automatically have their information included in directory databases or are expressly asked at the moment of requesting the service, and at regular intervals thereafter, whether and how they wish relevant information to be included in directory databases. End users shall also be offered the option of having certain information included in the database but not disclosed to users of directory services."
Amendment 63 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 15 – point b
Article 1 – point 15 – point b
Directive 2002/22/EC
Article 25 – paragraph 3
Article 25 – paragraph 3
3. Member States shall ensure that all end- users provided with a publicly available telephof an electronic communicationes service can access directory enquiry services in accordance with Article 5(1)(b) and that operators controlling the access to such services provide access services on terms which are fair, cost-oriented, objective, non-discriminatory and transparent.
Amendment 64 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 15 – point b a (new)
Article 1 – point 15 – point b a (new)
Directive 2002/22/EC
Article 25 – paragraph 4
Article 25 – paragraph 4
(ba) Article 25(4) is replaced by the following: "4. Member States shall not maintain any regulatory restrictions which prevent end-users in one Member State from accessing directly the directory enquiry services in another Member State, by voice call or SMS, and shall take measures to ensure such access pursuant to Article 28 of this Directive.
Amendment 84 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 2 – point 4 c (new)
Article 2 – point 4 c (new)
Directive 2002/58/EC
Article 12 – paragraph 2
Article 12 – paragraph 2
(4c) Article 12(2) is replaced by the following: "2. Member States shall ensure that where the inclusion of personal data relating to end-users of electronic communications networks and services in directory databases is automatic, end- users are provided the effective opportunity to remove or limit such data and, where it is not, they be expressly asked at the moment of requesting the service, and at regular intervals thereafter, whether and how they wish personal data to be included in directory databases. End-users shall also be offered the option of having information included in the database but not disclosed to users of directory services, and to verify, correct or withdraw such data. Not being included in a public subscriber directory, verifying, correcting or withdrawing personal data from it shall be free of charge."