2012 on administrative cooperation through the Internal Market Information System - PE 610.537v03-00 - Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection

September 19, 2017, 5:40 am

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AMENDMENTS 27 - 243 - Draft report Enforcement of the Directive 2006/123/EC on services in the internal market, laying down a notification procedure for authorisation schemes and requirements related to services, and amending Directive 2006/123/EC and Regulation (EU) No 1024/2012 on administrative cooperation through the Internal Market Information System
Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection

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Study - Completing the Digital Single Market for European Consumers and Citizens: Tackling Geo-blocking in the EU - 10th Meeting of the IMCO Working Group on the Digital Single Market - PE 607.329 - Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection

September 19, 2017, 3:00 pm

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This report summarizes the discussion during the 10th Meeting of the IMCO Working Group on the Digital Single Market. It summarizes the exchange of views between MEPs, independent academic experts and the European Commission on the topic of geo-blocking in the Digital Single Market. The proceedings were prepared by Policy Department A for the Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee.

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Minutes - Monday, 4 September 2017 - PE 609.670v01-00 - Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection

September 20, 2017, 12:25 pm

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September 21, 2017, 8:09 am

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Parliament will hold a conference on tourism as a key driver of growth and job creation. The event will focus on, amongst others: attracting investment and improving the business environment; tourism innovation; and promoting Europe as a tourist destination. It will take place on 27.09.17 with the participation of stakeholders and institutional representatives including from the Committees on Transport and Tourism, on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection, and on Culture and Education.

Anna Maria Corazza Bildt, IMCO Vice-Chair, will chair the panel on Tourism Innovation and Digital Economy.

Further information
EP news article
Conference programme
Registration
Fact Sheet on tourism

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September 22, 2017, 1:20 am

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25 September 2017
     STEFANEC - Access of third-country goods and services to the Union's internal market in public procurement and procedures supporting negotiations on access of Union ggods and services to the public procurement markets of third countries
4 September 2017
     CHARANZOVA - Establishing the European Electronic Communications Code
13 July 2017
     GALL-PELCZ - Laying dow rules on the making avaialble on the market of CE marked fertilising products
     DALTON - General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2018 - all sections
     DALTON - Budgetary amendments
     SEHNALOVA - Cooperation between national authorities responsible for the enforcement of consumer protection laws
08 June 2017
     VAN BOSSUYT - The fight against cybercrime
     GEBHARDT - A Space Strategy for Europe
     DALTON - 2018 Budget - Mandate for the Trilogue
     STIHLER - Copyright in the Digital Single Market
30 May 2017
     BORZAN - Cross-border parcel delivery services
     MIZZI - European standards - implementation of Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012
     DURAND - A longer lifetime for products: benefits for consumers and companies
18 May 2017
     VIRKKUNEN /JUVIN - Online Platforms and the Digital Single Market
11 May 2017
     ŠTEFANEC – Body of European Regulators of Electronic Communications
     SCHALDEMOSE – Posting of workers in the framework of the provision of services
     GRAPINI – A new skills agenda for Europe
     DE JONG – The functioning of franchising in the retail sector
     REDA – Rules on the exercise of copyright and related rights applicable to certain online transmissions of broadcasting organisations and retransmissions of television and radio programmes (SatCab2)
3 May 2017
     DANTI - European Agenda for the Collaborative Economy
25 April 2017
     LØKKEGAARD - accessibility requirements for products and services
     VERHEYEN - EU eGovernment Action Plan 2016-2020 - Accelerating the digital transformation of government
     THUN UND HOHENSTEIN - geoblocking regulation
     DALTON - Budget: Pilot Projects and Preparatory Actions
21 March 2017
     SEHNALOVÁ – cooperation between national authorities responsible for the enforcement of consumer protection laws
     CHARANZOVÁ - FinTech: the influence of technology on the future of the financial sector
     LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE – internet connectivity for growth, competitiveness and cohesion: European gigabit society and 5G
9 February 2017
     DALTON: Approval and market surveillance of motor vehicles and their trailers, and of systems, components and separate technical units intended for such vehicles
6 February 2017
     COFFERATI: Digitising European Industry Reaping the full benefits of a Digital Single Market
26 January 2017
     LOPEZ_ISTURIZ WHITE: Annual report on the Single Market Governance within the European Semester 2017

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September 22, 2017, 1:26 am

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This issue covers IMCO committee meetings of 25 and 28 September 2007. This edition also summarises past committee meeting held on 12-13 July and 4 September 2017.

Issue 84

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Minutes - Wednesday, 12 July 2017 - PE 608.134v01-00 - Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection

September 6, 2017, 5:25 am

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Briefing - Online Platforms: How to Adapt Regulatory Framework to the Digital Age? - PE 607.323 - Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection

September 7, 2017, 3:00 pm

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• Platforms, understood as a method of organising digital markets that allows two groups of users (suppliers and customers) to meet, are one of the pillars of the digital market. They facilitate its development, providing adequate solutions to the needs of the sharing, collaborative, data, and P2P economies. • Platforms that often operate as marketplaces have a triangle structure where users must first conclude a contract with the platform to be subsequently able to conclude contracts between themselves. The status of platform user is very often difficult to define, as platforms allow a rapid development of the pursued activities, which pushes the users outside the realm of consumer. These two characteristics make platforms difficult to fit with the EU market and consumer regulations.

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Opinion - European Electronic Communications Code (Recast) - PE 602.838v03-00 - Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection

September 8, 2017, 7:26 am

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OPINION on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the European Electronic Communications Code
Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection
Dita Charanzová

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September 11, 2017, 1:21 am

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IMCO debate on Control of the acquisition and possession of weapons

On 18.11.2015, the EC adopted a legislative proposal for amending the 91/477 Directive on Firearms, together with the overdue evaluation report and Implementing Regulation on deactivation. Among others, the EC proposal contains stricter rules to ban certain semi-automatic firearms and for the online acquisition of firearms; includes museums and collectors in the scope of the Directive; amends the authorisation conditions for acquiring and possessing a firearm (e.g. provision of a medical test).

It also proposes common rules on marking of firearms for traceability purposes and strengthens the exchange of information between MS.

The proposal lacks an Impact Assessment. As mentioned in an implementation appraisal published by EPRS, "the revision of the Directive was initially included in the Commission Work Programme 2016 (Annex I, item 17). Following the terrorist attacks in Paris on 13 November 2015, the publication of the Commission proposal was brought forward..." together with the Implementing Regulation on deactivation standards.

The Directive was reviewed in 2008 (IMCO Rapp.: G. Kallenbach/ Greens) and foresaw that the EC would submit an evaluation report by 28.07.2015 on the situation resulting from the application of the Directive, together with any appropriate proposals.

Rapporteur: V. FORD
Shadow Rapporteurs: A.M. CORAZZA BILDT (EPP), S. COFFERATI (S&D), D. CHARANZOVÁ (ALDE), J. MASTALKA (GUE/NGL), P. DURAND (Greens/EFA), R. IWASZKIEWICZ (EFDD), M.TROSZCZYNSKI (ENF)

Further information
Procedure file

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Draft opinion - A European strategy on Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems - PE 609.467v01-00 - Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection

September 11, 2017, 11:25 am

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DRAFT OPINION on European Strategy on Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems
Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection
Matthijs van Miltenburg

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September 12, 2017, 9:25 am

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AMENDMENTS 1 - 40 - Draft opinion Towards a digital trade strategy
Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection

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Highlights - Parliament encourages a wider spreading of franchising in the EU - Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection

September 14, 2017, 2:52 am

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MEPs asked the EU Commission to come up with recommendations on how to further develop the franchising sector in the EU and to draw up a list of unfair trading practices. The franchising business model is currently under-performing in the EU, representing only 1.89 % of GDP, as opposed to 5.95 % in the USA and 10.83 % in Australia, says Parliament in a report on the functioning of franchising in the retail sector approved on Tuesday by 617 votes to 31, with 43 abstentions.

Further information
press release: Parliament encourages a wider spreading of franchising in the EU
European Parliament resolution of 12 September 2017 on the functioning of franchising in the retail sector

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Highlights - Accessibility of products in plenary - Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection

September 14, 2017, 4:26 am

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Key products and services, like phones, ticketing machines and banking services, will have to be made more accessible to people with disabilities. The amended text was approved by 537 votes to 12, with 89 abstentions. This vote gives Parliament’s team a mandate to start negotiations with Council, which has yet to agree on its position.

Further information
Press release: Disabled persons to have better access to products and services in the EU
Procedure file: Accessibility requirements for products and services

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Highlights - Proceedings of the Workshop on Reforming Single Market for fertilising products - Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection

September 14, 2017, 4:34 am

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front page of the proceedings of the workshop on fertilising products

The workshop organised by the Policy Department A for the IMCO Committee aimed at discussing the revision of the fertilisers’ regulation proposed by the European Commission and its possible implications for producers, farmers and other users. It allowed exchange of views on the new regulatory proposal. This document was prepared by Policy Department A at the request of the Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection.

Further information
Proceedings of the Workshop on Reforming Single Market for fertilising products

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September 14, 2017, 5:25 am

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Study - The new Restrictiveness Indicator for Professional Services: an assessment - PE 607.349 - Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection

September 14, 2017, 3:00 pm

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This document was prepared by Policy Department A: Economic and Scientific Policy, at the request of the Committee for the Internal Market and Consumer Affairs. After setting out the background of recent EU initiatives in the realm of services, in particular professional services, it explains in considerable detail the new Restrictiveness Indicator for Professional Services developed by the European Commission, followed by a careful assessment based on seven queries. It shows that, technically, this indicator is an improvement over similar work done by the OECD but that the empirical results are not radically different from those of the OECD in four such professions. The study cautions that the use of the new indicator has to be combined with assessments of proportionality, and that more attention should be paid to barriers to free movement.

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Briefing - Economic effects of reform in professional services - PE 607.337 - Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection

September 14, 2017, 3:00 pm

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This briefing is based on: World Bank Regular Economic Report; van der Marel, E., J. Kren and M. Iootty (2016) "Services in the European Union: What Kinds of Regulatory Policies Enhance Productivity?", World Bank Policy Research Paper Series, No. 7919: http://bit.ly/2dtb45p; van der Marel, E. (2017) “Reforming Services: What Policies Warrant Attention?”, ECIPE Five Freedoms Policy Brief, No. 1/2017: http://bit.ly/2uhzI3W. It was prepared by Policy Department A for the Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee.

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Highlights - Action plan on the reinforcement of SOLVIT: Legislative scrutiny time - Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection

September 24, 2017, 11:58 pm

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On 25 September, IMCO will hold a scrutiny session with the Commission on the SOLVIT Action Plan which was published on 2 May as part of the Compliance Package. In the Action Plan, the Commission announces that it will build on the successes of SOLVIT, a free of charge service which provides rapid and pragmatic solutions to people and companies all over Europe when they experience difficulties with public administrations while moving or doing business cross-border in the EU.

The Action Plan aims to increase the use of SOLVIT by making sure that more citizens and businesses can easily access it and by improving data collection so that evidence from SOLVIT cases can be used to improve the functioning of the Single Market.

Further information
Procedure file: action plan on SOLVIT

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Amendments 53 - 333 - Proportionality test before adoption of new regulation of professions - PE 610.571v02-00 - Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection

September 25, 2017, 3:55 am

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AMENDMENTS 53 - 333 - Draft report on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on a proportionality test before adoption of new regulation of professions
Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection

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