Activities of Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS related to 2017/2191(INI)
Plenary speeches (2)
Annual Report on Competition Policy (debate)
Annual Report on Competition Policy (debate)
Reports (1)
REPORT on the Annual Report on Competition Policy PDF (504 KB) DOC (105 KB)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the annual report on competition policy
Amendments (16)
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Recalls that the level of transparency and openness sets the conditions for true and fair competition;
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls forRegrets that updated trade defence instruments to be updated to make them, which need to be stronger, faster and more effective may be necessary; stresses the importance of the Union devising a reliable new method of calculating anti-dumping duties;
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Stresses however that the EU needs foreign investments and that closing our markets will not improve the conditions for the economy to grow;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission to take account of the needs of SMEs when conducting negotiations and trade, with a view to ensuring better access to markets and making the firms in question more competitive;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes the efforts of the Commission to maintain regular contact with the members of Parliament’s competent committee in addition to the Structured Dialogue with Commissioner for Competition;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. In the context for next EU budget discussions, calls the EU Institutions to consider a separate operational budget to increase the efficiency and management of DG competition, modernizing its electronic and informatics tools for example;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Notes that in order to improve speed of major Antitrust investigations, EC and stakeholders could increase the use of streamlined antitrust proceedings, for instance by making more use of confidentiality rings for lawyers and data rooms to allow companies to have access to the evidence against them; Antitrust authorities should be strict about the delays by companies in responding to the European Commission requests for information;
Amendment 190 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Calls on the European Commission to be well prepared and equipped for the first bid data case. The utilisation by big tech companies of personal data is unprecedented and consumers often are not aware and informed to the extent their data is being used for super profiling's used for advertising purposes for example;
Amendment 214 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Asks the Commission to apply State aid rules strictly and uniformly to European airlines such as Alitalia and Air Berlin; believes that restructuring aid is one of the most distortive forms and that the same rules should be applied to national and low-cost carriers; Moreover, in the Lufthansa-Air Berlin acquisition deal, the Commission should carefully assess the impact on competition and potential harm to consumers, notably through higher prices in accordance to the EU's merger control process with particular attention to percentage of market share by incumbent operator on certain routes;
Amendment 221 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Calls on the Commission to strictly apply state aid rules to railway undertakings as well; in particular those which have already benefited from restructuring aid in the past;
Amendment 222 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 b (new)
Paragraph 26 b (new)
26b. Requests that the Commission carefully assesses all airline merger deals in accordance with the EU’s merger control procedure, including the impact of these deals on market competition and potential harm to consumers, most notably through higher prices and restrictions to direct access of destinations;
Amendment 223 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 b (new)
Paragraph 26 b (new)
26b. Urges the Commission to complete the implementation of the Single European Railway Area, ensure full transparency in the flows of money between infrastructures managers and railway undertakings, and verify that each Member State has a strong and independent national Antitrust regulator;
Amendment 224 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 c (new)
Paragraph 26 c (new)
26c. Is concerned by the anti- competitive effects of common ownership by large institutional investors; believes that the fact that these investors hold a significant part of the shares of direct competitors in a same sector, among airlines companies for example, creates a quasi-oligopoly having adverse effects on consumers and the economy as a whole by limiting competition; Calls on the Commission to take all necessary measures to deal with possible anti-competitive effects of common ownership; furthermore, calls on the Commission to investigate into common ownership and to draw up a report to be presented to Parliament about the effects of common ownership on European markets, particularly on prices and innovation;
Amendment 227 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Welcomes the revision of Regulation (EC) No 868/2004 in order ton safeguarding fair competition, aimed at in Union external aviation relations and to ensuringe reciprocity and the eliminatingon of unfair practices, including alleged subsidies and State aid awarded to airlines from certain third countries; believes that transparency in the fair competition clause is an essential element to guarantee a level playing field that could distort the market, it is necessary for fair competition clauses to require full financial transparency. Such transparency is necessary in order to enable the Commission to confirm or dismiss the alleged subsidies. Moreover this Regulation or other appropriate legislative vehicles should prevent anticompetitive behaviour in ticket distribution, such as the imposition by certain airlines of surcharges or restricted access to information for those using booking channels other than their own;
Amendment 238 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Stresses that, in line with the current Commission Guidelines, and taking into account the need of connectivity of outermost and peripheral regions, all airports financed by the EU budget should be based on a positive cost- benefit analysis to avoid the financing of ghost airports in Europe; calls on the Commission to come up with a public list of such potential ghost airports;
Amendment 245 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 a (new)
Paragraph 28 a (new)
28a. Stresses the importance of safeguarding the transparency of flight information, ensuring a level playing field in the market and ultimately protecting European consumers’ ability to make informed choices and therefore calls on the European Commission to abide by these principles when reviewing the Code of Conduct on CRS and the Air Services Regulation;