10 Amendments of Jill EVANS related to 2016/0149(COD)
Amendment 81 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1
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.
Amendment 97 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4
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.
Amendment 134 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14
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.
Amendment 159 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 21
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.
Amendment 166 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
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.
Amendment 180 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point -a (new)
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.)
Amendment 187 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point a
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;
Amendment 212 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point c
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) the provider’s generalterms and conditions of saleparcel delivery, including a detailed description of the complaints procedure.
Amendment 342 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6
Article 6