Activities of Robert ROCHEFORT related to 2013/2122(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on misleading advertisement practices PDF (170 KB) DOC (83 KB)
Amendments (7)
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
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2. Stresses that a better exchange of information between Member States is needed; calls on all Member States to create or assign a national focal point to which businesses and other victims of misleading practices can report them, and where they can obtain information on judicial and non-judicial means of redress, as well as help and expertise regarding the prevention and tackling of various forms of fraud; considers that each focal point should maintain a database recording all types of misleading marketing practices and including easy-to-understand examples; calls on the Commission to ensure coordination of a smooth exchange of information from the national databases, inter alia by facilitating the setting-up of a rapid alert system identifying new practices;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
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3. Believes that the national focal points should play an active role in sharing information between public authorities, citizens and businesses, and should work together in order to warn each other of new misleading practices and assist SMEs in the settlement of crossborder disputes by directproviding defrauded companies to the most appropriate legal mechanismwith information on judicial and non-judicial means of redress;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
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Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
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7. Underlines the need for national enforcement authorities to work more closely together with enablers of misleading marketing practices, such as banks, telephone companies, postal services and collection agencies, in order to prevent rogue companies from operating;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
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11. RegretsNotes that the Commission’s failure to take up Parliament’s recommendation has no plans for a partial extension of the scope of the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive by having Annex I (the blacklist) cover business-to-business (B2B) contracts; considers that amending this directive instead of Directive 2006/114/EC will result in a more coherent approach since it will ext and that it plans to broadend the concept of unfair commercial practices, together with the blacklist, to B2B relations; stresses that this will avoid the need for broadening the concept of misleading advertising, which is necessary in order to capture all forms of misleading practicmisleading advertising to encompass additional forms of misleading practice, including misleading directory schemes;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
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Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
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16. Notes with concern that dispute resolution processes have proven inefficient, lengthy and costly, and that they offer no guarantee of adequate and timely compensation for the damage caused; calls on the Commission to put forward a proposal that makes it possible for the victims of misleading marketing practices to act collectively in a case against a rogue company; stresses that the victims should have the option of being represented by designated organisations, such as national entrepreneurs’ organisations; calls for effective remedies for victims, including the annulment of the contracts concernedstresses the need to remedy this state of affairs, and thus enable victims to obtain fair compensation;