17 Amendments of Bas EICKHOUT related to 2013/2075(INI)
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Stresses that competition policy must enable appropriate state support for the ecological transformation of the economy, in particular with regard to renewable and energy efficiency to minimize CO2 emissions, and that the new guidelines should be based on this premise, and calls on the Commission to come forward with sector specific initiatives where a specific need has been identified to enhance competition, consumer protection and the benefit of the environment, with a framework including minimum standards for an EU - consistent system;
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Urges the Commission to provide reporting of fossil fuel reserves and potential CO2 emissions by listed companies and those applying for listing within the single market by aggregate and publish the levels of reserves and emissions using appropriate accounting guidelines. To make genuine progress towards sustainable companies, correct and reliable environmental reporting is essential;
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Deems that competition policy should contribute at promoting and enforcing open standards and interoperability in order to prevent technological lock-in of consumers and clients by a minority of market players;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Urges the Commission to increase the effectiveness of the penalty system for price-fixers, by assessing the opportunity of introducing individual sanctions (such as individual fine or director disqualification) against companies and their executives, as well as providing less focus on the application of the turnover criteria in the calculation of fines and greater focus on the actual effect of the cartel on the market;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Encourages the Commission to consider greater incentives to encourage more applicants to come forward with evidence of cartel activity, including the protection of leniency applicants from civil claims, the adoption of an 'Amnesty Plus' procedure, and the abandon of prosecutorial discretion as a way to foster legal certainty;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Stresses the importance of full transparency of NCAs and sector regulators; requests that all relevant information on cases and official decisions be made clearly visible and accessible online through an open database;
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph -9 (new)
Paragraph -9 (new)
-9. State aid and funding Urges the Commission to examine the extent to which a too generous allocation of free EUA (European Union Allowances) permits in certain sectors may distort competition, given that these permits whose efficiency has diminished since the slowdown of the activity have generated windfall profits for certain companies while reducing their incentive to play their part in the transition to a sustainable eco-efficient economy; assuring project eligible for state aid or funding must meet environmental goals and contribute to a wider economic prosperity in the single market; Calls on the Commission to assess the effect of the restrictive scope for the exemptions to state aid rules in the field of social housing, limiting it to disadvantaged citizens or socially less advantaged groups; calls on the Commission to take a flexible and constructive stance towards Member States that experience difficulties with their social housing sector because of this definition;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Urge the Commission to link the extension of the temporary State aid to the banking sector with enhanced and more stringent conditions related to the reduction of the balance sheet composition, size and complexity including a proper focus on retail lending as well as stronger restrictions on bonuses, fee structures and distribution of dividends; deems that these conditions should be explicit, imperative as well as assessed and summarized on an ex post basis in the forthcoming annual Competition reports;
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Stresses that the consolidation in the banking sector has increased the market share of several major financial institutions; and urges the Commission to maintain a close watch on the sector in order to enhance competition and consumer protection in European banking markets; hereby within investment banking where retail deposits are cross-subsidise to riskier investment banking activities;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Stresses that banks receiving State aid should not increase their exposure to public debt, especially if they are reducing the credit flow to SMEs and households at the same timesize and complexity; and urge the Commission to focus on their business model on the viable part of their activities, remuneration policy and fee structure; nor should they increase their exposure to public debt, especially if they are reducing the credit flow to SMEs and households at the same time; that a new, permanent regulatory system and new State aid rules are necessary in order to tackle the flaws found in the pre-crisis legal system, in particular as regards the financial sector as well as to remedy distortions' created over the financial and economic crisis; to ensure that the taxpayers, consumers and the single market as a whole are in focus of the consequences and benefits when banks are receiving State aid;
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Calls on the Commission to assess and report the systemic risk posed to capital markets and wider economic prosperity by the complex interconnections of securitised finance through the overhang of un-burnable carbon. This in consideration of potential systemic risks within the financial market of the increased exposure to climate change;
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls on the Commission to open up competition in those Member States that have port and airport public networks, particularly if their management is monopolised by the central government or if they persistently generate public deficitdevelop public transport networks with the aim of improving services for the customers, who already contribute financially through their taxes;
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Urge the Commission to monitor closely unfair competition such as taxation inequalities in kerosene taxes, unequal internalisation of external costs, State aid practises across Member States as well as the support of unsustainable and large infrastructure projects, and act appropriately to counter said actions to meet the environmental goals for 2020.
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 b (new)
Paragraph 17 b (new)
17b. Countering the continuing rise of CO2 emission; urges the commission to take in care and take stronger actions in the transport sector to address the international commitment to limit global warming to two degrees Celsius (°C) above pre-industrial levels as set as a goal for 2020:
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Invites the Commission to provide a justified overview to ascertain which air carriers benefit from advantages over other service providers through special conditions or alleged abuses of their dominant position in certain airports; including advantages due to national subsidizing of regional airport;
Amendment 143 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Calls on the Commission and national regulators to investigate if the so-called ‘Monday effect’ – an alleged manipulation of the petrol prices by companies depending on the specific day of the week – is real; urge the Commission to closely monitor the level of competition since the three largest players still represent about 75 % (electricity) and above 60 % (gas) of the market despite the gradual opening of the markets in the mid-1990s; invites the Commission to issue guidelines in order to improve the access of renewable energy sources to the energy network;
Amendment 144 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Calls the Commission to examine in its next annual report the extents to which the concentration of critical raw materials suppliers may be harmful to the activity of client sectors and a more eco-efficient economy since some of these are of paramount importance for the deployment of eco-efficient technologies needed to achieve environmental goals;