Activities of Jürgen KLUTE related to 2013/2075(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on the Annual Report on EU Competition Policy PDF (255 KB) DOC (131 KB)
Amendments (10)
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Reiterates that public services such as transport, health care, social housing, social services and SGIs and SGEIs in general should be exempted of competition provisions;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Urges the Commission to consider a review of European competition policy beyond its current narrow focus on cost and price decreases; stresses that lowering prices for consumers shall not be achieved to the detriment of employment, environmental protection, quality and safety of goods and services;
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6c. Calls on the Commission to balance the competitive approach with alternative social and economic rationales; invites the Commission in this regard to foster co-operation within the EU;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Calls on the Commission to further require banks to move away from unsustainable business models based on excessive leverage and overreliance on short-term wholesale funding and encourage it to focus again on their core business as the Commission already stated in its Competition report for 2011; calls on the Commission, in this regard, to take due note of the opinion of the High-level Expert Group on reforming the structure of the EU banking sector as regards the proposed legal separation between trading activities and deposits;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Asks again the Commission to come forward with a proposal for the creation of a public rating agency which shall be meant to be the only agency allowed to assess sovereign debt inside European Union. As a non-market player, this public rating agency is expected to have a more rational and long term perspective in the assessment of public debt and financial stability of the Union in general;
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Calls on the Commission to adopt a legislative proposal for a European Regulator that would act where national regulators do not exist or are inactivewhose task shall be to help achieving a single European railway area while promoting cooperation between national operators rather than competition only;
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Stresses that the single market in the rail freight sector is affected by incorrect or incomplete transpositition provisions of EU law leading to liberalisation by Member States and by bottlenecks to cross- border mobility that harm competition and growth; calls on the Commission to verify whether technical or market barriers that differ from one Member States to another, such as track gauges, energy supply and signalling systems, can be considered infringements of competition rufurther tacklesd;
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Asks the Commission to ensure that energy regulations and directives are transposed and applied correctly in all Member States; cCalls on the Commission to be particularly vigilant when energy prices reach above the EU-average, as high prices distort competition and harm consumers;