Activities of Franz OBERMAYR related to 2011/0340(COD)
Plenary speeches (2)
Consumer programme 2014-2020 (debate)
Consumer programme 2014-2020 (debate)
Amendments (7)
Amendment 75 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2
Recital 2
(2) The Union should contribute to putting consumers at the centre of the internal market by supporting and complementing Member States' policies in seeking to ensure that citizens can fully reap the benefits of the internal market and that, in so doingthat connection, their safety and economic interests are properly protected by means of concrete actions.
Amendment 78 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) This Regulation takes into account the economic, social and technical environment and the concomitant emerging challenges. In particular, actions funded under this programme will seek to address issues linked to globalisation, digitalisation, the need to move towards more sustainable patterns of consumption, population ageing, social exclusion and the issue of particularly vulnerable consumers. Integrating consumer interests into all Union policies, in accordance with Article 12 TFEU, should be given high priority. Coordination with other Union policies and programmes is a key part ofIn order to ensuringe that consumer interests are taken fully into account in, coordination with other Union policies and programmes is essential. In order to promote synergies and avoid duplication, other Union funds and programmes should provide for financial support for the integration of consumer interests in their respective fields.
Amendment 83 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5
Recital 5
(5) It is important to improve consumer protection. To achieve this general objective, specific objectives should be set as regards safety, consumer information and education, rights and redress as well as enforcement in respect of consumer rightindications of origin, misleading advertising, warranties, guarantees and other consumer rights and their enforcement, online purchases and hotlines. The value and impact of the measures taken under the Programme should regularly be monitored and evaluated. For the purposes of evaluating consumer policy indicators should be developed. and spot checks carried out on various undertakings. The results should be published on the internet, so that consumers can ascertain which undertakings in which sectors are particularly consumer friendly or unfriendly.
Amendment 85 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6
Recital 6
(6) It is necessary to provide forspecify in advance the eligible actions by which those objectives are to be achieved.
Amendment 86 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) It is necessary to define the categories of potential beneficiaries eligible for granteligible bodies.
Amendment 89 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) Objective 2 -– information and education, education, indications of origin and the prevention of misleading advertising: to improve consumers' education, information and awareness of their rights, to develop the evidence base for consumer policy and to provide support to consumer organisations, checks on the accuracy of indications of origin, in particular in the food sector, in which connection the place of origin of the raw material, and not the place of processing, should be the decisive factor.
Amendment 92 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point d – introductory part
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point d – introductory part
(d) Objective 4 - enforcement: to support enforcement of consumer rights by strengthening cooperation between national enforcement bodies and by supporting consumers with advice, in particular the more effective enforcement of warranty claims, above all in cases where complaints are made by ringing hotlines or in the context of online trading.