6 Amendments of Jürgen KLUTE related to 2010/2137(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas competition policy is an essential tool in enabling the EU to be competitive on the global stageat the service of European consumers in ensuring a socially and economically healthy internal market and in combating abusive practices by certain economic operators,
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas Member States’ governments, as a response to the financial crisis, have granted a sizconsiderable amount of State aid in the form, for example, of guarantee schemes, recapitalisation schemes and complementary forms of liquidity support on bank funding, without requiring any real and binding contributions matching this aid; whereas these measures have provided banks with a significant source of funding and insurance against the risks usually faced by the financial sector,
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Underlines that it has supported the Commission’s request for more resources to be allocated to Commission staff in the area of competition in the 2011 budget; asks to be informed about how the additional resources have been used; in the light of the policy of the Commission and its Directorate-General for Competition aiming to decentralise some of the powers it had previously held to the competent national authorities, wonders to what extent the economic, social and financial crisis and its consequences call for the Directorate-General for Competition to be endowed with greater human resources than those released by this decentralisation policy; recalls its request to the Commission to ensure that its Directorate-General for Competition has appropriate staff numbers to deal with its rising workload;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Considers it essential, when assessing whether State aid is compatible with the Treaty, to find the right balance between the negative effects of State aid on competition and public finances and its positive effects ion terms of common interesthe social and economic fabric of the EU in permitting the survival of jobs and undertakings;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Regrets that energy consumers in the EU continue to suffer from a distorted energy and mobile telephony market;
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Urges the Commission to look in greater detail at competition in the agro- industrial and wholesale distribution sectors in terms of transparency and consumer price evolution, because of the high degree of concentration in these sectors in certain Member States;