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Old challenges and new commercial practices in the internal market
6.5.2025 B100246/12
Amendment 12
Hanna Gedin
on behalf of The Left Group
Motion for a resolution B100246/2025
Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection
Old challenges and new commercial practices in the internal market
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Motion for a resolution
Amendment
11. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to simplify EU rules and make them easier to implement, and to significantly reduce administrative burdens, in particular for SMEs, which play a vital role in sustaining local communities and economies; stresses the importance of ensuring legal certainty and consistency for businesses, as well as predictability for long-term investments, which are essential to boost competitiveness, innovation and resilience and to deliver fast and meaningful improvements for consumers and businesses; calls, furthermore, on the Member States to prevent actions that could compromise the level playing field in the internal market;
11. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to make EU rules easier to implement, and to reduce unnecessary administrative burdens; stresses the importance of ensuring legal certainty and consistency for businesses, as well as predictability for long-term investments, which are essential to boost competitiveness, innovation and resilience and to deliver fast and meaningful improvements for consumers, workers and businesses; calls, furthermore, on the Member States to prevent actions that could compromise the level playing field in the internal market;
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6.5.2025 B100246/13
Amendment 13
Hanna Gedin
on behalf of The Left Group
Motion for a resolution B100246/2025
Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection
Old challenges and new commercial practices in the internal market
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Motion for a resolution
Amendment
13. Stresses the importance of maintaining a competitive and dynamic economic environment by safeguarding consumers’ rights and enforcing digital competition rules to address unfair business practices that distort market conditions; calls, furthermore, on the Member States to increase the capacity of market surveillance authorities and customs authorities to ensure effective enforcement of single market rules, particularly in respect of e-commerce and imports from non-EU countries;
13. Stresses the importance of maintaining a competitive and dynamic economic environment by safeguarding consumers’ and workers’ rights and enforcing digital competition rules to address unfair business practices that distort market conditions; calls, furthermore, on the Member States to increase the capacity of market surveillance authorities and customs authorities to ensure effective enforcement of single market rules, particularly in respect of e-commerce and imports from non-EU countries;
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6.5.2025 B100246/14
Amendment 14
Hanna Gedin
on behalf of The Left Group
Motion for a resolution B100246/2025
Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection
Old challenges and new commercial practices in the internal market
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Motion for a resolution
Amendment
16. Considers that the single market is a key tool in times of crisis if the Member States can act in a coordinated way; considers that the recently adopted Internal Market Emergency and Resilience Act2 will be crucial to ensure coordination in order to prevent shortages and ensure the smooth functioning of the single market, including the free movement of essential goods and services throughout the EU;
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2 Regulation (EU) 2024/2747 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 October 2024 establishing a framework of measures related to an internal market emergency and to the resilience of the internal market and amending Council Regulation (EC) No 2679/98, OJ L, 2024/2747, 8.11.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/2747/oj.
16. Considers that State aid measures are a key tool in times of crisis; highlights the key role that the relaxation of State aid rules played in keeping the EU single market afloat during the COVID-19 pandemic and during Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine; calls, therefore, for greater certainty and proactive measures in relaxing State aid rules for future crises that the Union may face, for the benefit of the single market; considers that the recently adopted Internal Market Emergency and Resilience Act2 will be crucial to ensure coordination in order to prevent shortages and ensure the smooth functioning of the single market, including the free movement of essential goods and services throughout the EU;
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2 Regulation (EU) 2024/2747 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 October 2024 establishing a framework of measures related to an internal market emergency and to the resilience of the internal market and amending Council Regulation (EC) No 2679/98, OJ L, 2024/2747, 8.11.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/2747/oj.
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6.5.2025 B100246/15
Amendment 15
Hanna Gedin
on behalf of The Left Group
Motion for a resolution B100246/2025
Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection
Old challenges and new commercial practices in the internal market
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Motion for a resolution
Amendment
28. Underlines that environmental sustainability and fair-trade considerations are increasingly shaping commercial practices by playing an important role in consumers’ purchasing decisions and consequently driving businesses towards sustainability; adds that transparency and information for consumers on environmental aspects as well as on socially-responsible and ethical production processes allow consumers to adopt sustainable consumption patterns;
28. Underlines that environmental sustainability, fair-trade considerations and regulatory frameworks are increasingly shaping commercial practices by playing an important role in consumers’ purchasing decisions and consequently driving businesses towards sustainability; adds that transparency and information for consumers on environmental aspects as well as on socially-responsible and ethical production processes allow consumers to adopt sustainable consumption patterns;
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6.5.2025 B100246/16
Amendment 16
Hanna Gedin
on behalf of The Left Group
Motion for a resolution B100246/2025
Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection
Old challenges and new commercial practices in the internal market
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Motion for a resolution
Amendment
29. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to maintain their level of ambition in this regard and work further on EU-wide labelling schemes; recalls that the objective of the Green Claims Directive is to establish a tool to protect consumers against greenwashing by establishing requirements for substantiation and verification;
29. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to maintain their level of ambition in this regard and work further on EU-wide labelling schemes; recalls that the objective of the Green Claims Directive is to establish a tool to protect consumers against greenwashing by establishing requirements for substantiation and verification; stresses, against this background, the importance of maintaining and reinforcing sustainability laws such as the Green Claims Directive, the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive1a and the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive1b;
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1a OJ L, 2024/1760, 5.7.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2024/1760/oj.
1b OJ L 322, 16.12.2022, p. 15, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2022/2464/oj.
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6.5.2025 B100246/17
Amendment 17
Hanna Gedin
on behalf of The Left Group
Motion for a resolution B100246/2025
Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection
Old challenges and new commercial practices in the internal market
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Motion for a resolution
Amendment
30. Highlights the need to further combat misleading advertising and greenwashing and to strengthen the second-hand market; notes, however, that restrictive sustainability rules may have a negative impact on European competitiveness;
30. Highlights the need to further combat misleading advertising and greenwashing and to strengthen the second-hand market and the circular economy;
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6.5.2025 B100246/18
Amendment 18
Hanna Gedin
on behalf of The Left Group
Motion for a resolution B100246/2025
Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection
Old challenges and new commercial practices in the internal market
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
Motion for a resolution
Amendment
34. Stresses the need to reinforce the external dimension of the single market to safeguard the EU’s strategic autonomy and global influence and welcomes the gradual integration of EU candidate countries to the single market with a view to their future EU membership; emphasises that the EU’s high regulatory standards can serve as a global benchmark and must be effectively enforced to ensure a level playing field for European businesses; calls on the Commission to intensify regulatory dialogues and political cooperation with other relevant non-EU countries in order to identify common challenges and try to build joint actions, especially concerning e-commerce, digital rules and consumers;
34. Stresses the need to reinforce the external dimension of the single market to safeguard the EU’s strategic autonomy and global influence and welcomes the gradual integration of EU candidate countries to the single market with a view to their future EU membership; emphasises that the EU’s high regulatory standards can serve as a global benchmark and must be effectively enforced to ensure a level playing field for European businesses; deplores, therefore, the Commission’s decision to undo and significantly weaken the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive and the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, which are meant to enforce a level playing field though the protection of human rights and of environmental standards globally; calls on the Commission to intensify regulatory dialogues and political cooperation with other relevant non-EU countries in order to identify common challenges and try to build joint actions, especially concerning e-commerce, digital rules and consumers;
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6.5.2025 B100246/19
Amendment 19
Hanna Gedin
on behalf of The Left Group
Motion for a resolution B100246/2025
Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection
Old challenges and new commercial practices in the internal market
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36
Motion for a resolution
Amendment
36. Recognises that geopolitical tensions, climate change, challenges to EU competitiveness and economic disparities pose significant risks to the integrity of the single market; calls for a robust, coordinated and strategic policy response to strengthen the single market;
36. Recognises that geopolitical tensions, climate change, challenges to EU competitiveness and economic disparities pose significant risks to the integrity of the single market; calls for a robust, coordinated and strategic policy response to strengthen the single market, while safeguarding consumers’ and workers’ rights and high environmental standards;
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6.5.2025 B100246/20
Amendment 20
Hanna Gedin
on behalf of The Left Group
Motion for a resolution B100246/2025
Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection
Old challenges and new commercial practices in the internal market
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37
Motion for a resolution
Amendment
37. Calls for the continued evolution of the single market to address both remaining unjustified barriers and emerging commercial challenges; takes the view that eliminating regulatory fragmentation, promoting simplification, significantly reducing administrative burdens, enhancing enforcement and ensuring resilient supply chains are critical to maintaining the EU’s competitive edge and fair market conditions and enhancing the single market; underlines the importance of consulting all relevant stakeholders in these processes;
37. Calls for the continued evolution of the single market to address both remaining unjustified barriers and emerging commercial challenges; takes the view that eliminating regulatory fragmentation, promoting simplification, significantly reducing administrative burdens, enhancing enforcement and ensuring good-quality jobs, high environmental standards and resilient supply chains are critical to maintaining the EU’s competitive edge and fair market conditions and enhancing the single market; underlines the importance of consulting all relevant stakeholders in these processes;
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6.5.2025 B100246/21
Amendment 21
Hanna Gedin
on behalf of The Left Group
Motion for a resolution B100246/2025
Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection
Old challenges and new commercial practices in the internal market
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38
Motion for a resolution
Amendment
38. Emphasises the importance of digital transformation, the circular economy and adaptability to global economic shifts in securing the EU’s long-term economic dynamism;
38. Emphasises the importance of digital transformation, the circular economy, sustainability, safe and good-quality jobs, and adaptability to global economic shifts in securing the EU’s long-term economic dynamism;
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