European Parliament legislative resolution on the Council common position for adopting a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on services in the internal market (10003/4/2006 - C6-0270/2006 - 2004/0001(COD))
Date: 2006-11-15
Institutions: Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection, European Parliament
Subjects: freedom to provide services, right of establishment, services contract, single market

C 314 E/212

Official Journal of the European Union

EN

21.12.2006

Wednesday 15 November 2006

and to stress that their failure to demonstrate progress towards effective implementation should lead to the
temporary withdrawal of GSP+ privileges;

7.
Asks the Commission to keep Parliament regularly informed of the results of its monitoring of the
implementation of the UN and ILO conventions and of the level of compliance by GSP+ beneficiary coun-
tries, especially in the areas of freedom of association, collective bargaining, non-discrimination in employ-
ment and the elimination of child and forced labour, and, in particular, to specify whether there are cases of
serious and systematic violation of the principles laid down in human rights and international labour con-
ventions and environmental agreements in any of the current GSP+ beneficiary countries;

8.
Calls on the Commission to inform Parliament at an early stage of any recommendation for the
temporary withdrawal of preferences in accordance with Article 16 of the Regulation; stresses that a Com-
mission decision to apply a temporary withdrawal of preferences in the event of serious violations of
principles laid down in the ILO conventions should be based on the findings of the appropriate monitoring
institutions, and that due regard should be had to the opinion of the European Parliament;

Calls on the Commission to carry out a mid-term review of the GSP instrument;

9.
insists that an
assessment of the effectiveness of implementation of the GSP+ requirements must be carried out before
any renewal of GSP+ preferences is granted on the expiry of the current Regulation in 2008; calls on the
Commission and the Council to ensure that Parliament's views on the extension of the GSP+ scheme to
specific countries and on any renewal of the current Regulation in 2008 are taken into account;

10.
Asks the Commission to produce a comprehensive, annual, country-by-country report not only
detailing the situation in the beneficiary countries but also indicating the actions undertaken by the
Commission;

11.

Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council and the Commission.

P6_TA(2006)0490

Services in the internal market ***II

European Parliament legislative resolution on the Council common position for adopting a directive
of the European Parliament and of the Council on services in the internal market (10003/4/2006 —
C6-0270/2006 — 2004/0001(COD))

(Codecision procedure: second reading)

The European Parliament,

— having regard to the Council common position (10003/4/2006 — C6-0270/2006),

— having regard to its position at first reading (1) on the Commission proposal to Parliament and the

Council (COM(2004)0002) (2),

— having regard to the amended Commission proposal (COM(2006)0160) (2),

— having regard to Article 251(2) of the EC Treaty,

— having regard to Rule 62 of its Rules of Procedure,

— having regard to the recommendation for second reading of the Committee on the Internal Market and

Consumer Protection (A6-0375/2006),

1.

2.

Approves the common position as amended;

Instructs its President to forward its position to the Council and Commission.

(1) Texts Adopted, 16.2.2006, P6_TA(2006)0061.
(2) Not yet published in OJ.