7 Amendments of Konstantinos POUPAKIS related to 2013/2122(INI)
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Β a (new)
Recital Β a (new)
Ba. whereas misleading marketing practices cause market failures and distortions of competition, impairing the ability of businesses to make informed and hence effective choices;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas misleading marketing practices have a knock-on effect on consumers, who are, as a result, charged more for products and services;
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Urges the Commission and the Member States jointly to promote initiatives to educate and inform all business undertakings and promote exchanges of best practice between them, thereby ensuring that they are aware of the dangers;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Calls on the Member States to appoint an enforcement authority empowered to ensure compliance with the rules, including codes of business practice;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Stresses that legislative action is necessary as the current legislative framework has several deficiencies, both as regards substantive rules and enforcement; takes the view that the most effective way of introducing coherent and consistent measures to prohibit misleading marketing practices would be a simultaneous review of Directive 2006/114/ΕC and Directive 2005/29/ΕC regarding business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) relations;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Stresses that particular attention should be given to interpretation of the rules governing comparative advertising in accordance with the substantial body of case law established by the EU Court of Justice;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Calls for the creation of a European support network for small and medium- sized undertakings to resolve cross-border differences, which can direct defrauded businesses towards the most suitable channels of legal redress;