13 Amendments of David Maria SASSOLI related to 2012/2067(INI)
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Is aware that there are structural differences within individual transport modes and that a single cross-cutting regulation on passenger rights as a whole cannot be drawn up at present, because the regulations on passenger rights in waterborne and bus and coach transport have not yet entered into force; considers, however, that it is important to establish models which can be used as a benchmark;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Therefore calls on the Commission, at this stage, to draw up guidelines on the application and implementation of rights in all transport modes, which should not serve either to standardise the laws or to water down passenger rights;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes the Commission’s decision to continue its information campaign on passenger rights until 2014; recommends that national consumer protection authorities and agencies be involved in the campaign, since they can do a great deal to educate passengers about their rights (for instance by producing literature for travel agencies or web content); likewise, considers it important to involve passengers by setting up offices where they can send suggestions and proposals;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on carriers to make greater efforts to inform passengers more fully; considers that information must be provided in time and be readily understandable, exact, and complete, and that, as regards possible travel problems, passengers must be made aware of their rights at the outset, when they book a trip; calls, moreover, for passengers to be informed of their rights in the same way that they are informed of their obligations;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Welcomes the Commission’s new smartphone application, which provides information about passenger rights in several languages and in a format accessible to passengers with disabilities; calls on the Member States and carriers to press ahead with the development and use of similar modern technologies (including SMS and the use of social networks); takes the view, moreover, that consideration should be given to making the internet available free of charge in airports, stations and other major departure points, to enable the service to be used more fully;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 bis (new)
Paragraph 7 bis (new)
7a. Urges the Commission to promote the use of new technologies for all modes of transport, to be applied to the issuing of boarding cards that can be retained, are valid and can be shown through electronic devices, in order to speed up boarding procedures and make travel more environmentally sustainable;
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Commission to enable the current law on price transparency and unfair commercial practices to be implemented and enforced effectively, in accordance with Directive 2011/83/EC, and to ensure that the headline price corresponds exactly to the final price and that no unreasonable extra costs (e.g. handling charges or a charge for payment by credit card) are added just before a purchase is made; considers, furthermore, that the websites of many transport companies are still rather unclear and can mislead consumers when they are booking tickets;
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the Commission to produce a standard EU-wide complaint form, to be translated into all EU languages and used for all modes, which should be given to passengers when they make a reservation; believes that a fixed maximum time limit of 30 days for handling complaints should be laid down for all modes;
Amendment 153 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Points to the need, as far as all modes are concerned, for an unambiguous and clearer definition of the term ‘extraordinary circumstances’, as this would enable carriers and national enforcement authorities to apply the rules more consistently and ensure that citizens could be informed to more useful effect abougive passengers a valid tool with which to assert their rights; calls on the Commission to draw up the necessary legislative proposals;
Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Calls on the Commission to consider what action to take should airlines go bankrupt, and draws attention in this connection to its resolution of 25 November 2009; calls on it also to provide for adequate compensation mechanisms that are proportionate to the damage caused to the passenger;
Amendment 194 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Calls on carriers, together with industry, to devise comprehensible standard notification procedures and, if possible, set up coordinated notification systems, so as to make travel easier for people with disabilities or reduced mobility and enable them to communicate their assistance needs in advance; calls on the Commission to provide for special price reductions for those accompanying people with reduced mobility;
Amendment 216 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Maintains that carriers must improve the quality of assistance to people with disabilities or reduced mobility and train their staff to be more aware of the needs of people in those categories; takes the view that although much progress has been made in the quality of assistance there are still too many architectural barriers which prevent people with reduced mobility from fully benefiting from services;
Amendment 229 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Urges the industry to develop a clear system for ‘through tickets’ (i.e. transport contracts for several legs of a journey using the same mode) and integrated tickets (i.e. contracts for intermodal transport chains); draws attention in this connection to the Rail Regulation, which requires computer- assisted information and reservation systems to be adapted to common standards so as to enable travel information and ticketing services to be organised on an EU-wide basis; calls on the Member States to equip themselves with facilities to ensure the efficient multimodal boarding of baggage, also by standardising the rules on security checks in the various modes of transport;