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Activities of Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT related to 2017/2003(INI)

Plenary speeches (1)

European agenda for the collaborative economy - Online platforms and the Digital Single Market (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2017/2003(INI)

Shadow reports (1)

REPORT on a European Agenda for the collaborative economy PDF (676 KB) DOC (110 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: IMCO
Dossiers: 2017/2003(INI)
Documents: PDF(676 KB) DOC(110 KB)

Amendments (29)

Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
A a. Whereas the collaborative economy is neither an alternative nor in confrontation to the traditional economy, but it rather poses new challenges and opportunities;
2017/02/13
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital b a (new)
b a. Whereas the collaborative economy offers possibilities for young people, migrants, part-time workers and senior citizens to access the labour market;
2017/02/13
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Believes that, if developed in a responsible manner, the collaborative economy may create significant opportunities for citizens and consumers, who benefit from enhanced competition, tailored services and lower prices;
2017/02/13
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Stresses the need to enable businesses to grow by removing hurdles, duplication and fragmentation that hinders development cross-border;
2017/02/13
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2 b. Recognise that because the collaborative economy is relatively uncharted waters there is a need to rethink policies related to taxation, workers rights and liability; However reiterates, that these issues have to be dealt with at national level;
2017/02/13
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2 c. Encourages Member States to provide legal clarity and not to consider the collaborative economy a threat to the traditional economy; Stresses the importance of regulating the collaborative economy in a way that is facilitating and enabling rather than restricting;
2017/02/13
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Agrees that the collaborative economy could also generates new entrepreneurial opportunities, jobs and growth, and could play an important role in making the economic system not only more efficient, but also socially and environmentally sustainable;
2017/02/13
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Points to the risks of increasing regulatory grey areas, the consequent disregard of existing regulations and the fragmentation of the Single Market; is aware that, if not properly governed, these changes could result in legal uncertainty about applicable rules and constraints in exercising individual rights;
2017/02/13
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
6. Considers the development of a dynamic and clear legal environment establishing a level playing field to be of paramount importance for the collaborative economy to flourish in the EU;
2017/02/13
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Emphasises the need to consider the collaborative economy not only as a business model but also as a new form of integration between the economy and society which is able to embed economic relations within social ones and to create new forms of community;deleted
2017/02/13
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Draws attention to the factNotes that the collaborative economy in Europe has a number of specific traits, as it is generally more rooted at local level, reflecting the European business structure, whichso far consists mainly of SMEs;
2017/02/13
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Commission to encourage non-profit, user-governed, collaborative practices aimed at building sharing and cooperation, and a commons- oriented approach to the collaborative economy, so as to foster the scalability of a social economy and access to open knowledge;deleted
2017/02/13
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. Is concerned that, while a large part of the nascent collaborative economy remains unregulated, significant differences are emerging among Member States due to national, regional and local regulations, as well as case-law, posing a risk of fragmentation of the Single Market;
2017/02/13
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13 a. Emphasises the need for the Member States to step up enforcement of existing legislation, most importantly the Services Directive; calls on the Commission to make use of all the tools available to ensure full and correct implementation of the Single Market rules; calls on the Commission to accelerate infringement procedures whenever an incorrect or insufficient implementation of the legislation is identified;
2017/02/13
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
14. AgreStresses that any market access requirements for collaborative platforms and service providers must be necessary, justified and proportionate, and that this assessment should be dependent on whether services are provided by professional or private individuals, making peer providers subject to lighter legal requirements;
2017/02/13
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 188 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
11a. Points out that much of what is offered in the collaborative economy is based on customer evaluations and that a good many suppliers gain a competitive advantage as a result of false evaluations; stresses therefore that there should be guaranteed checks by independent accredited bodies that evaluations are genuine;
2017/02/13
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 214 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
21. Believes that any new regulation should leverage platforms’ self-governing capacities; is convinced that collaborative platforms themselves could take an active role in such a new regulatory environment by correcting many asymmetric information and other market failures which have been traditionally addressed through regulation, especially by digital trust-building mechanisms;deleted
2017/02/13
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 216 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
21. Believes that any new regulationory framework should leverage platforms’ self-governing capacities; is convinced that collaborative platforms themselves could take an active role in such a new regulatory environment by correcting many asymmetric information and other market failures which have been traditionally addressed through regulation, especially by digital trust- building mechanisms;
2017/02/13
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 223 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21 a. Highlights that the digital trust building mechanisms such as reviews feedback are an essential part of the collaborative economy; Considers it therefore necessary to properly deal with abuse of these via for example independent checks of reviews;
2017/02/13
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 227 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
22. Strongly believes, at the same time, that this self-regulating capacity does not undercut the need for regulation, especially for market failures that platforms cannot address and for other normative goals (e.g. reversing inequalities, boosting fairness, inclusiveness, and openness, etc.);deleted
2017/02/13
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 265 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26 a. Stresses that the collaborative economy never should be a way of avoiding tax obligations; Believes it is crucial that Member States deal with tax compliance issues so as to ensure a level playing field;
2017/02/13
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 266 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
27. Is concerned about the difficulties that have emerged so far in relation to tax compliance and enforcement, despiteWelcomes the increased traceability of economic transactions viathat online platforms enables;
2017/02/13
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 277 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
29. Encourages the Member States to agree on a uniform set of information that businesses must disclose to tax authorities in the framework of their tax information duties;deleted
2017/02/13
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 289 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
30. Agrees that functionally similar tax obligations should be applied to businesses providing comparable services, and is convinced that taxes should be paid where profits are generated and where more is involved than simply contributions to costs;
2017/02/13
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 304 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
32. Underlines the paramount importance of safeguarding workers’ rights in collaborative services, of avoiding social dumping, and of guaranteeing fair working conditions and adequate social protection;
2017/02/13
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 313 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
33. Is concerned about the risk that on-demand workers might not enjoy genuine legal protection, and that collaborative platforms might pass on their risks to workers with no entrepreneurial responsibilitiesUnderlines that the collaborative economy is offering flexible on-demand work opportunities for people that currently are far from the labour market;
2017/02/13
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 330 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
34. ObservesIs concerned that local governments are already are active in regulating and promoting the collaborative economy, focusing on collaborative practices both as the subject of their policies and as an organising principle of new forms of collaborative governance;
2017/02/13
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 351 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37
37. Points out the importance of adequate competences and skills, in order to enable as many individuals as possible to play an active role in the collaborative economy; is of the opinion that the potential of the collaborative economy will be fully unleashed only through effective policies of social inclusion at EU level, starting with confident and critical use of ICT as a key competence for lifelong learning strategies;deleted
2017/02/13
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 361 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39
39. Emphasises that collaborative financing systems – such as crowd-funding – are successful only when integrated withis an important complement to traditional funding channels intoas part of an effective financing ecosystem;
2017/02/13
Committee: IMCO