# Credit rating agencies: future perspectives

European Parliament procedure 2010/2302(INI) (INI - Own-initiative procedure, 7th term, committee ECON / JURI). Stage: Procedure completed. 206 committee amendments tabled by 22 Members between 2011-01-20 and 2011-02-09.

## What the amendments focus on

The dossier concerns credit rating agencies and their future perspectives. The amendments describe credit rating agencies as information intermediaries, examine their role in the financial crisis through ratings of US sub-prime and structured finance instruments and in the euro/sovereign debt crisis, and discuss the lack of competition, the issuer-pays model and conflicts of interest, over-reliance on external ratings, Regulation No 1060/2009, Basel II and the US Dodd-Frank Act.

## Most active Members on this file

| Member | Country | Group | Amendments | Markdown |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gianni PITTELLA | Italy | S&D | 28 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/4436.md |
| Burkhard BALZ | Germany | PPE | 23 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/96997.md |
| Sven GIEGOLD | Germany | Verts/ALE | 20 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/96730.md |
| Sharon BOWLES | United Kingdom | ALDE | 14 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/33570.md |
| Ashley FOX | United Kingdom | ECR | 13 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/96957.md |
| Antolín SÁNCHEZ PRESEDO | Spain | S&D | 12 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/28295.md |
| Miguel PORTAS | Portugal | GUE/NGL | 11 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/28406.md |
| Diogo FEIO | Portugal | PPE | 11 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/96977.md |
| Jean-Paul GAUZÈS | France | PPE | 10 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/28193.md |
| Jürgen KLUTE | Germany | GUE/NGL | 10 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/96769.md |
| Liem HOANG NGOC | France | S&D | 10 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/96950.md |
| Pervenche BERÈS | France | S&D | 8 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/1985.md |
| Anni PODIMATA | Greece | S&D | 7 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/39317.md |
| Sajjad KARIM | United Kingdom | ECR | 6 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/28481.md |
| Sebastian Valentin BODU | Romania | PPE | 6 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/39722.md |

## Official source documents

- PE454.677: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//NONSGML+COMPARL+PE-454.677+01+DOC+PDF+V0//EN&language=EN
- PE458.578: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//NONSGML+COMPARL+PE-458.578+01+DOC+PDF+V0//EN&language=EN

Full amendment texts, votes and exports: https://amendeu.com/dossiers/2010-2302-INI · machine-readable: https://amendeu.com/data/dossiers/2010-2302-INI.json

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