Activities of Diana WALLIS related to 2008/2126(INI)
Legal basis opinions (0)
Amendments (5)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 9 (new)
Citation 9 (new)
– having regard to the study entitled "Misleading practices of ‘directory companies’ in the context of current and future internal market legislation aimed at the protection of consumers and SMEs" (IP/A/IMCO/FWC/2006- 058/LOT4/C1/SC6), commissioned by its Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection,
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes the efforts made by European and national business organisations to raise awareness among their members and calls on them to intensify their efforts so that fewer people become victims of misleading business directories in the first place; expresses concern that some of these organisations have consequently been pursued through the courts by the misleading business directories specified in their awareness- raising activities on the basis of alleged defamation or similar accusations;
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Regrets that Directive 2006/114/EC concerning misleading and comparative advertising which applies to business-to- business transactions as in this case, appears to be either insufficient in providing an effective remedy or inadequately enforced by Member States; requests the Commission to report by December 2009 on the feasibility and possible consequences of amending Directive 2006/114/EC in such a way as to include a "black" or "grey" list of practices that are to be regarded as misleading;
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Regrets that Directive 2005/29/EC on unfair commercial practices does not cover business-to- business transactions and that Member States appear reluctant to extend its scope; notes, however, that Member States may unilaterally extend the scope of their national consumer legislation to business- to-business transactions and actively encourages them to do so; requests the Commission to report by December 2009 on the feasibility and possible consequences of extending the scope of Directive 2005/29/EC to cover business-to-business contracts with specific regard to point 21 of Annex I thereto;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)