14 Amendments of Lara COMI related to 2012/2144(INI)
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas the directive seeks to regulate an extremely broad range of services and occupational and business categories, many of which differ greatly from one Member State to another;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas businesses, in particular SMEs, are still having to comply with an extensive range of administrative and bureaucratic requirements which are a heavy burden for them, particularly when taken together with the difficulties they face in gaining access to credit;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Recalls that the Services Directive does not force liberalisation but should paves the way for both business and consumers to grasp the full potential of our single market;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Is concerned at the growing number of discrimination cases reported by consumers; urges Member States to properly enforce Article 20(2) of the Services Directive and calls on businesses to refrain from unjustified discriminatory practices on grounds of nationality or place of residence; points out, however, that any obligation to sell is against the fundamental principle of freedom of contract; welcomes therefore the Commission's ongoing work on a guidance report on non-discrimination, striking the right balance for the benefit of consumers and businesses;
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Notes that the diversity of national standards is causing fragmentation and giving rise to problems of interpretation for many occupational and business groups; encourages the development of voluntary European standards for services to improve cross-border comparability;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Notes that the diversity of national standards is causing fragmentation; encourages the development of voluntary European standards for services to improve cross-border comparability and trade;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Encourages broader use of the IMI- system between Member States to check cross-border compliance with requirements, and of European Consumer Centres as well as SOLVIT to help business and consumers with conflicting rules and non-compliance; underlines, to this effect, the importance of ensuring full access of associated partners to the SOLIVT-network at a technical level;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Urges Member States to upgrade to second-generation Points of Single Contact that are fully functional, multilingual and user-friendly e-government portals; stresses the importance of taking a service- provider approach covering the entire business cycle; believes that e-procedures will enhance simplification, reduce compliance costs and increase legal certainty; calls on Member States to foster the delegation of administrative tasks to officially accredited private bodies; calls on Member States to ensure full interoperability of their PSCs and make them known across borders; calls on the Commission to set out clear benchmarking criteria for the evaluation of PSCs and to regularly report to Parliament on progress made;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Highlights the fact that overriding reasons of public interest are too often invoked in a way that damages the internal market for services; regrets that the proportionality assessment is rarely made; asks the Commission to clarify the concept of proportionality and issue practical guidance toguidelines for the Member States on how to apply it;
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Strongly supports the Commission’s zero tolerance policy; encourages the Commission to make use of all means at its disposal to ensure full enforcement of existing rules, in dialogue with Member States and the relevant occupational and business groups; calls for fast-track infringement procedures to be applied whenever breaches of the directive are identified;
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Urges stakeholders, the business community and social partners to play their part in holding governments to account for revitalisthe Commission and the Member States, in view of the current economic crisis, to pay greater attention to the requests made by business communities, occupational groups and social partners, with a view to ensuring that those requests, wherever justifiable, are taken into account when implementing the Europearules on services sector and creating stable job, with the primary aim of maintaining current employment levels and opening up new employment opportunities;
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Points to the importance of the Service Directive and to its close interaction with the Professional Qualifications Directive, and accordingly calls on the Commission and the Member States, in conjunction with European Committee for Standardisation (CEN), to ensure that uniform terminology that is clear and acceptable to all Member States and all of the many occupational categories is used, in order to help make sure that the rules are applied consistently throughout the EU;
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 b (new)
Paragraph 24 b (new)
24b. Points out that, in regulating specific economic activities, the Services Directive emphasises the need to enable the provider not only to recoup investment costs but also to make a fair return on the capital invested;
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 c (new)
Paragraph 24 c (new)
24c. Calls on the Commission to take a pragmatic look at the issue of transitional provisions, taking proper account of the specific characteristics of individual occupations and national circumstances, with a view to supporting business and maintaining employment levels;