Implementation and streamlining of EU internal market rules to strengthen the single market

Amendments tabled for the plenary sitting on this text, in their own numbering series. This is a different set from the committee amendments tracked elsewhere on AmendEU, and is not counted in any of the site’s amendment totals.

1. Amendment 1Motion for a resolution · Recital G
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   G. whereas robust enforcement of single market rules, including through swifter and effective infringement proceedings, should be considered essential to ensure fair competition and business confidence, and to protect consumers from the consequences of market fragmentation and reduced choice; whereas efforts to improve, streamline and simplify the EU’s legislative framework should also focus on enhancing quality, clarity and coherence, on reducing fragmentation in the implementation of EU rules, as well as ensuring that the legislation is easily understandable for authorities and all stakeholders;

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   G. whereas robust enforcement of single market rules, including infringement proceedings as a last resort, should be considered to ensure fair competition and business confidence, and to protect consumers from the consequences of market fragmentation and reduced choice; whereas efforts to improve, streamline and simplify the EU’s legislative framework should also focus on enhancing quality, clarity and coherence, on reducing excessive fragmentation in the implementation of EU rules, as well as ensuring that the legislation is easily understandable for authorities and all stakeholders;

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2. Amendment 2Motion for a resolution · Paragraph 2
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   2. Recognises that in order to secure the EU’s prosperity, it is necessary to improve regulatory coherence and reduce unnecessary administrative burdens on businesses – specifically smaller businesses and start-ups; insists, therefore, that barriers that currently hinder growth, job creation and investment must be removed and that resources should be directed towards encouraging innovation and fostering growth while ensuring a level playing field based on high social and environmental standards; underlines the need to mobilise private investment and stresses that particular attention should be paid to reducing compliance costs for SMEs through digital tools and targeted derogations; stresses…

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   2. Recognises that in order to secure the EU’s prosperity, it is necessary to improve regulatory coherence and reduce unnecessary administrative burdens on businesses – specifically smaller businesses and start-ups; insists, therefore, that unjustified barriers that currently hinder growth, job creation and investment must be removed and that resources should be directed towards encouraging innovation and fostering growth while ensuring a level playing field based on high social standards; underlines the need to mobilise private investment and stresses that particular attention should be paid to reducing compliance costs for SMEs through digital tools and targeted derogations; stresses that…

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3. Amendment 3Motion for a resolution · Paragraph 4
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   4. Underlines that regulatory streamlining and simplification are aimed at facilitating compliance processes, while upholding the EU’s core policy objectives, ensuring that social and environmental standards, as well as digital rights and consumer protection, are not compromised, and ensuring a stable and predictable regulatory environment for businesses that provides legal clarity and certainty for all; underlines that competitiveness and innovation, especially in the context of the current cost-of-living crisis, must deliver outcomes that benefit consumers; stresses that simplification should also reinforce the EU’s long-term objectives, including the digitalisation of the economy, the gre…

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   4. Underlines that regulatory streamlining and simplification are aimed at facilitating compliance processes, while upholding the EU’s core policy objectives, ensuring that social standards, as well as digital rights and consumer protection, are not compromised, and ensuring a stable and predictable regulatory environment for businesses that provides legal clarity and certainty for all; underlines that competitiveness and innovation, especially in the context of the current cost-of-living crisis, must deliver outcomes that benefit consumers; stresses that simplification should also reinforce the EU’s long-term objectives, including the digitalisation of the economy and consumer protection, w…

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4. Amendment 4Motion for a resolution · Paragraph 5
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   5. Considers that a well-functioning single market, in which rules are implemented and enforced in a correct, coherent and effective way, is a shared responsibility of the EU institutions and the Member States; stresses that gold-plating of EU directives and fragmented enforcement of EU rules remain an obstacle for the single market, disproportionately burdening SMEs and start-ups; demands that the Commission ensure that EU rules are properly enforced across all of the Member States in a harmonised manner in order to address cross-border barriers; urges the Member States, therefore, to address gold-plating and to ensure that national implementing measures are published transparently and in a…

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   5. Considers that a well-functioning single market, in which rules are implemented and enforced in a correct, coherent and effective way, is a responsibility of the EU institutions and the Member States; stresses that the Commission’s responsibility for the explosion in administrative and financial rules and burdens, disproportionately burdening SMEs and start-ups, is clear and regrettable; urges the Commission to put an end to the increasing administrative burden weighing heavily on citizens and businesses, and to focus its initiatives on simplifying the regulatory framework; invites the Member States to address gold-plating and to ensure that national implementing measures are published tr…

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5. Amendment 5Motion for a resolution · Paragraph 13 a (new)
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   13a. Takes note of the Commission’s intention to increase regular contact with stakeholders and practitioners in order to gather information, assess the impact of EU legislation and identify areas where changes are needed in the single market; stresses that this regular contact should effectively lead to the simplification and, where appropriate, the removal of excessive and redundant rules; considers that these opinions can contribute to effective omnibus simplification proposals; calls on the Commission, in this regard, to publish the opinions of the stakeholders collected from all the different consultation processes, in an anonymous format when there is no other option, as a way of incre…

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6. Amendment 6Motion for a resolution · Paragraph 27
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   27. Welcomes the Commission’s planned fitness check on the legislative acquis in the digital policy area; demands that the Commission assesses and clarifies the legislative framework and the interplay between current EU legal acts, such as the Digital Services Act9 , the General Data Protection Regulation10 , the Artificial Intelligence Act11 , the Regulation on the Transparency and Targeting of Political Advertising12 , the Product Liability Directive13 , e-commerce and cybersecurity rules, and between these acts and future legislative initiatives before their adoption by the Commission; insists that regulators, networks of national authorities and stakeholders be involved in this process a…

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   27. Welcomes the Commission’s planned fitness check on the legislative acquis in the digital policy area; demands that the Commission assesses and clarifies the legislative framework and the interplay between current EU legal acts, such as the Digital Services Act9, the General Data Protection Regulation10, the Artificial Intelligence Act11, the Regulation on the Transparency and Targeting of Political Advertising12, the Product Liability Directive13, e-commerce and cybersecurity rules, and between these acts and future legislative initiatives before their adoption by the Commission; insists that regulators, networks of national authorities and stakeholders be involved in this process and st…

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7. Amendment 7Motion for a resolution · Paragraph 36
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   36. Calls for the harmonised rollout of digital labelling and the Digital Product Passport in EU product legislation; stresses their potential to lower compliance burdens, enhance consumer access to accurate information, and support multilingual interoperability while preserving the possibility for consumers’ products to be accompanied by essential information related to safety in paper format; urges the Commission to facilitate the development of harmonised standards and detailed guidance to avoid fragmentation and facilitate SME participation in cross-border trade;

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   36. Calls for the harmonised rollout of digital labelling and the Digital Product Passport in EU product legislation; stresses their potential to lower compliance burdens, enhance consumer access to accurate information, for example, through the indication of origin, and support multilingual interoperability while preserving the possibility for consumers’ products to be accompanied by essential information related to safety in paper format; urges the Commission to facilitate the development of harmonised standards and detailed guidance to avoid fragmentation and facilitate SME participation in cross-border trade;

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