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10 Amendments of Jill EVANS related to 2016/0149(COD)

Amendment 81 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1
(1) The tariffs applicable to low volume senders of cross-border parcels and other postal items, particularly small and medium-sized enterprises and individuals, are in some cases still relatively high. Users still report quality of service issues when sending, receiving or returning cross-border parcels and, very specially, severe problems related to consumer protection and enterprise liability in the occurrence of loss or damage of the cross-border parcel. This has a direct negative impact on users seeking cross- border parcel delivery services, especially in the context of e-commerce. Further improvements in interoperability, efficiency and environmental footprint reduction are equally needed.
2017/05/16
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 97 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4
(4) In order to improve the affordability of cross-border parcel delivery services, especially for users in remote, mountainous, island or sparsely populated areas and for those who are disabled or with reduced mobility, it is necessary to improve the transparency of public lists of tariffs for a limited set of cross-border parcel delivery services offered by universal service providers, which are mostly used by micro, small and medium-sized enterprises and individuals. Transparency oft and easily accessible public lists isare also necessary to address the issue of high tariffs of cross-border delivery services and to reduce, where applicable, unjustified tariff differences between national and cross-border parcel delivery services.
2017/05/16
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 134 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14
(14) When national regulatory authorities annually assess the affordability of tariffs, they should base themselves on objective criteria, such as the domestic tariffs of the originating universal service providers and the destination universal service providers and the level of terminal rates. Those common criteria may be complemented by other criteria of particular relevanparticularly take into account the situation of individual as well as micro, small and medium-size enterprise users living or situated in remote, mountainous, island or sparsely populated areas, as well as disabled users, users with reduced mobility, users that regularly use parcel delivery services and individual users with little disposable income. In this respect, the European Parliament in its resolution of 15 September 2016 on the application of the Postal Services Directive considered that geographical coverage and accessibility to universal services for explaining the tariffs in question, such as specific transportation or handling costs and bilateral volumes between different cross- border parcel delivery service providerparcel deliveries can and must be improved, especially for citizens with disabilities and reduced mobility and those in remote areas, and stressed the importance of ensuring barrier-free accessibility to postal services.
2017/05/16
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 159 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 21
(21) As markets for parcel delivery services are changing fast, the Commission should re-assess the efficiency and effectiveness of this Regulation and submit a regular report to the European Parliament and the Council. That report should be accompanied, where appropriate, by legislative proposals for review to the European Parliament and the Council. That report should be produced following consultation with all appropriate stakeholders and users, also including the European Social Dialogue committee for the postal sector.
2017/05/16
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 166 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
TIn order to foster better user accessibility to efficient and affordable cross-border parcel delivery, including for vulnerable users, those in remote or sparsely populated areas and persons with disabilities, this Regulation establishes specific rules, in addition to the rules set out in Directive 97/67/EC, concerning:
2017/05/16
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 178 #
This Regulation is without prejudice to the full application by all parcel delivery providers of all legal and contractual provisions concerning employment, working and social security conditions and the exercise of fundamental rights, including the right to negotiate, conclude and enforce collective bargaining agreements and to take industrial action.
2017/05/16
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 180 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point -a (new)
(-a) “parcel” means any item other than an item of correspondence delivered by any delivery service provider with a weight not exceeding 31,5 kg; (This amendment applies throughout the text. Adopting it will necessitate corresponding changes throughout.)
2017/05/16
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 187 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) “parcel delivery services” means services involving the clearance, sorting, transport or distribution of postal items other than items of correspondence; transport alone shall not be considered a parcel delivery service; delivery of such items exceeding 31,5 kg shall not be considered a parcel delivery servicearcels;
2017/05/16
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 212 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) the provider’s generalterms and conditions of saleparcel delivery, including a detailed description of the complaints procedure.
2017/05/16
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 342 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6
Transparent and non-discriminatory 1. Whenever universal service providers providing parcel delivery services conclude multilateral agreements on terminal rates they shall meet all reasonable requests for access to all network elements and associated facilities as well as relevant services and information systems, necessary for the provision of cross-border parcel delivery services. 2. The point at which access should be provided shall be the inward office of exchange in the destination Member State 3. Universal service providers referred to in paragraph 1 shall publish a reference offer. The reference offer shall contain all the relevant associated terms and conditions, including prices. 4. The reference offer shall include all components necessary for access as referred to in paragraph 1, including any conditions limiting access to and/or use of services where such conditions are allowed by Member States in conformity with Union law. 5. Before the reference offer is published, it shall be approved by the national regulatory authority. The national regulatory authority may, where necessary, impose changes to the reference offer to give effect to obligations set out in this Regulation. 6. Universal service providers referred to in paragraph 1 shall upon request, and based on a reference offer, make an individual offer available to a parcel delivery service provider requesting access within the meaning of that paragraph at the latest one month after the receipt of the request. Universal service providers receiving an access request and providers requesting access shall negotiate in good faith. 7. When no agreement is reached on the basis of the individual offer referred to in paragraph 6, the parcel delivery service provider requesting access may submit the individual offer made by the universal service provider to the national regulatory authority. If necessary, the national regulatory authority shall change the individual offer to give effect to the obligations laid down in this Article. 8. The access shall be operationally ensured within a reasonable period of time, not exceeding three months from the conclusion of the contract.Article 6 deleted cross-border access
2017/05/16
Committee: TRAN