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‘Considers that limited access to capital and financial know-how, significant upfront investment costs and extended repayment periods represent barriers to the take-up of self-generation and energy efficiency measures; encourages new business models, collective purchasing schemes and innovative financial instruments which incentivise self-generation, self-consumption and energy efficiency measures for all consumers; suggests that this should become an important objective for the EIB, EFSI, Horizon 2020 and the Structural Funds, of which public bodies and market actors should make full use;’ without the words ‘new business models,’ and ‘innovative’

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‘new business models,’ and ‘innovative’

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‘reiterates that projects should be funded on the basis of comparative cost-effectiveness, whilst keeping in mind national and European climate and energy goals and obligations;’

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‘Recalls that customer choice is limited in distribution networks due to their nature as natural monopolies, i.e. that customers cannot switch their distribution system operator; stresses the need for adequate market monitoring of distribution network operators to protect customers from sudden increases in distribution bills’

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‘, for example by setting a legal maximum percentage for each increase;’

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Text as a whole excluding the words ‘recommends that such elements be applied progressively’

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Text as a whole excluding the words ‘regrets the retroactive changes to renewable support schemes, as well as the introduction of unfair and punitive taxes or fees which hinder the continued expansion of self-generation;’

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Text as a whole excluding the words ‘and to include in or alongside energy bills peer-based comparisons and information on switching;’ and ‘insists that clear language must be used, avoiding technical terms; requests the Commission to identify minimum information requirements in this respect, including best practices; stresses that both fixed charges and taxes and levies should be clearly identified as such in the bills, allowing the customer to distinguish them easily from the variable, consumption-related cost; recalls existing requirements for suppliers to specify in or with bills the contribution of each energy source to the overall fuel mix of the supplier over the preceding year in a comprehensible and clearly comparable manner, including a reference to where information can be found on the environmental impact in terms of CO2 emissions and radioactive waste;’

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‘and to include in or alongside energy bills peer-based comparisons and information on switching;’

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‘insists that clear language must be used, avoiding technical terms; requests the Commission to identify minimum information requirements in this respect, including best practices; stresses that both fixed charges and taxes and levies should be clearly identified as such in the bills, allowing the customer to distinguish them easily from the variable, consumption-related cost; recalls existing requirements for suppliers to specify in or with bills the contribution of each energy source to the overall fuel mix of the supplier over the preceding year in a comprehensible and clearly comparable manner, including a reference to where information can be found on the environmental impact in terms of CO2 emissions and radioactive waste;’

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‘Believes that, in the context of a well-functioning energy system, local authorities, communities, cooperatives, households and individuals have a key role to play, should contribute substantially to the energy transition and should be encouraged to become energy producers and suppliers if they choose to do so;’

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‘points out that for this reason it is important that the European Union adopts a common operational definition of “prosumers”;’

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Text as a whole excluding the words ‘an economy based on 100 % renewables, which can only be achieved through reducing our energy consumption, making full use of the “energy efficiency first/first fuel” principle and prioritising energy savings and demand side measures over the supply side in order to meet our climate goals in line with the Paris Agreement 1.5o scenario,’ and without ‘competitiveness’

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‘an economy based on 100 % renewables, which can only be achieved through reducing our energy consumption, making full use of the “energy efficiency first/first fuel” principle and prioritising energy savings and demand side measures over the supply side in order to meet our climate goals in line with the Paris Agreement 1.5o scenario,’ without the words ‘100 % renewables, which can only be achieved through reducing our energy consumption,’

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‘100 % renewables, which can only be achieved through reducing our energy consumption,’

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‘competitiveness’

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‘empower citizens to produce, consume, store or trade their own renewable energy either individually or collectively, to take energy-saving measures, to become active participants in the energy market through consumer choice, and to allow them the possibility of safely and confidently participating in demand response;’

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‘believes that, in this context, a practical common understanding of the definition of “prosumers” should be agreed at EU level, through a participative process guided by the Commission;’

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‘Insists that the provisions of the directives on unfair commercial practices and consumer rights relating to doorstep selling, unfair terms or practices and aggressive marketing techniques be properly implemented and enforced by Member States so as to protect energy consumers, especially the most vulnerable;’

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‘notes that complaints regarding doorstep selling have increased in several Member States’

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‘and calls for a ban on these practices;’

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‘Calls for enhanced coordination at EU level to combat energy poverty through the sharing of best practices among Member States’ without the words ‘enhanced coordination at EU level’

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‘enhanced coordination at EU level’

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‘and the development of a broad, common but non-quantitative definition of energy poverty, focusing on the idea that access to affordable energy is a basic social right; urges the Commission to prioritise measures to alleviate energy poverty’ without the word ‘common’ and without the words ‘but non-quantitative’

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‘common’

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‘but non-quantitative’

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‘focusing on the idea that access to affordable energy is a basic social right;’

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‘urges the Commission to prioritise measures to alleviate energy poverty in upcoming legislative proposals’

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‘and to present a dedicated action plan by mid-2017;’

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‘Insists that better data availability and collection are essential in order to assess the situation and target assistance on energy-poor citizens, households and communities as effectively as possible;’

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‘stresses that any significant changes to the market must be assessed beforehand regarding their positive or neutral impact on vulnerable households, and evaluated ex-post in order to confirm such initial assessments or to implement promptly corrective measures if needed;’

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Text as a whole excluding the words ‘be it domestic violence, trafficking, or prostitution,’

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Text as a whole excluding the words ‘(zero-hours contracts, temporary work, interim jobs, part-time working)’ and ‘whereas these insecure contracts put women at greater risk of poverty and result in a category of the “working poor” being created’

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Text as a whole excluding the words ‘and the austerity measures taken’

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Text as a whole excluding the words ‘widely conveyed by society are rooted in patriarchy and leave women in a subordinate role in society, contributing to the feminisation of poverty; whereas these stereotypes’

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Text as a whole excluding the words ‘especially in certain Member States whose tax policies do not take into account the difficulties encountered by these categories,’

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‘Reiterates its call on the Commission to revise the existing legislation in order to close the gender pay gap and reduce the pension gap between men and women; notes that measures to increase wage transparency are fundamental to closing the gender pay gap, and calls on the Member States to implement the Commission's recommendation of 7 March 2014 on strengthening the principle of equal pay between men and women through transparency,’

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‘including reversal of the burden of proof when it comes to challenging gender discrimination in the workplace;’

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‘Recalls, in particular, the right of migrant and refugee children, both boys and girls, to have access to education, this being one of the priorities of European societies; stresses, therefore, that urgent measures in the field of migrant education should be taken both at EU and national levels in light of the persisting migrant crisis; emphasises that education is key to integration and employability, and that a failure of national education systems to meet this challenge may provoke further cultural segregation and deepen social divisions;’

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‘points out that access to education, in both refugee camps and host municipalities, meeting the requisite quality standards and accompanied by linguistic and psychological support, must not be undermined by bureaucratic and administrative issues relating to recognition of refugee status;’

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Text as a whole excluding the words ‘, and asks for an urgent initiative in order to establish an EU directive on combating violence against women’ and ‘, and to further legislative measures to define such violence as a concrete criminal act closely related to hate crimes’

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‘, and asks for an urgent initiative in order to establish an EU directive on combating violence against women’

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‘, and to further legislative measures to define such violence as a concrete criminal act closely related to hate crimes’

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Text as a whole excluding the words ‘Commission and’

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those words

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Text as a whole excluding the words ‘calls on the Member States to consider providing shared pension rights in cases of divorce and legal separation, in line with the principle of subsidiarity;’

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‘Reiterates the role of education in combating gender stereotypes, empowering women and girls in the social, economic, cultural and political fields and in scientific careers, and in ending the cycle of poverty through women's inclusion in sectors where they have been under-represented, such as science, technology, engineering, and entrepreneurship, and calls on the Commission to incorporate vocational training targets for women in the country-specific recommendations;’

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‘emphasises the role of non-formal education; calls on Member States to include investment in the education of girls and women aimed at enhancing their potential as an integral part of their economies and recovery plans; encourages Member States to work to aid young women in the transition from formal education to the labour market; stresses the need for all educational institutions to impart democratic values with a view to encouraging tolerance, active citizenship, social responsibility and respect for differences related to gender, minorities, and ethnic and religious groups; points out the importance of sport and physical education in terms of overcoming prejudices and stereotypes and their potential value in helping socially vulnerable young people put their lives back on track;’

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Text as a whole excluding the words ‘by introducing family-friendly working arrangements, such as adaptable working hours and the possibility of teleworking;’

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Text as a whole excluding the words ‘underlines the importance’ and ‘of sharing and promoting best practices, mentorship, female role models and other forms of support for unemployed women;’

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Text as a whole excluding the words ‘deeply’ and ‘being pursued by the EU’

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‘Reiterates its disappointment at the withdrawal of the maternity leave directive after years of effort aimed at unblocking the deadlock and thus ensuring better protection for European citizens; calls on the Commission to put forward a new proposal and’

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‘to respect Parliament's position in favour of increasing the current minimum guaranteed period of maternity leave on full pay from 14 to 20 weeks and of’

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‘a mandatory right to paid paternity leave; believes that specific measures need to be taken in all Member States to improve work-life balance for women; urges the Commission to incorporate both a more robust social dimension and workplace gender equality objectives into the European Semester;’

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‘Stresses the crucial importance of: reforming macroeconomic, social and labour market policies by aligning these with gender equality policies in order to guarantee economic and social justice for women; reconsidering the methods used to determine the poverty rate and developing strategies to promote the fair distribution of wealth;’

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‘guaranteeing a minimum income and decent wages and pensions and creating more high-quality jobs, with entitlements, for women; and enabling women and girls to benefit from public services of a high standard, including in terms of narrowing gender gaps when it comes to the improvement of social welfare services;’

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‘Notes that the absence of a partner's income may be a major contributing factor to the poverty trap and to the social exclusion of women; notes’

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‘the often precarious situation of widows and of divorced women and single mothers to whom judges have granted custody of children, for whom an adequate level of maintenance needs to be defined; notes that non-payment of maintenance can plunge single mothers into poverty; underlines the fact that divorced women are prone to discrimination and poverty, and that this is evidence of women not yet being fully economically independent, thus pointing to’

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‘the need for further actions in the field of the labour market and the closing of the gender pay gap;’

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‘Calls on the Member States and the Commission to develop and use the available policy and financial instruments, including the Social Investment Package, in order to meet the Barcelona objectives; calls, in this context, for the European Social Fund (ESF) and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) to be optimised, for priority to be given, in the use of social investments and the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) regulation, to the establishment of public and private facilities for care of and assistance to children and other dependent persons, without the words “and the Commission”’

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‘and the Commission’

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‘and for the flexibility mechanism introduced in the context of the Stability and Growth Pact to be used for the financing of early childhood education and care (ECEC);’

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‘proposes that the Commission allocate specific resources, through a cofinancing mechanism, to promote incentives for specific areas where there is a shortage of ECEC facilities and where the female employment rate is extremely low;’

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‘Welcomes the fact that the Commission considers “equal pay for work of equal value” to be one of the key areas for action in its new strategy for gender equality;’

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‘deplores, however, the fact that the Commission has only published only a staff working document, thus downgrading its strategy for gender equality to the status of an internal document;’

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‘calls, therefore, on the Commission to adopt a Communication for a “New Strategy for Gender Equality and Women's Rights post” 2015, so that the objectives and policies included can be effectively implemented;’

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‘Calls for full implementation of Directive 2006/54/EC on the implementation of the principle of equal opportunities and equal treatment of men and women in matters of employment and occupation,’

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‘and for it to be revised with a requirement for companies to draw up measures or plans relating to gender equality,’

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‘including actions on desegregation, development of pay systems, and measures to support women's careers;’

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‘Calls for more ambitious action to tackle energy poverty, which disproportionately affects single women and single-parent and female-headed households;’

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‘urges the Commission and the Member States to establish a definition of energy poverty’

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‘which takes into account gendered aspects of the phenomenon, and to include this in the future recast of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive;’

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‘highlights the important role of community energy initiatives such as cooperatives in empowering vulnerable energy consumers, and particularly women who are facing poverty and social exclusion and marginalisation;’

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‘stresses that climate change has a big impact on female poverty, as women are more dependent on natural resources and have less resources to protect themselves from the negative effects of climate change such as impacts on health, drought, natural disasters or displacement linked to environmental change;’

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‘deplores the fact that a gender perspective has not been introduced systematically into the EU's climate policies, and calls for the Union institutions to include gender mainstreaming in all EU climate policies and legislation;’

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‘Encourages the Member States and the Commission to collect gender-disaggregated statistics and to introduce new individual indicators in respect of women and poverty, as a tool to monitor the impact of broader social, economic and employment policies on women and poverty in order to develop exchanges of best practice on legislative and budgetary instruments for combating poverty,’

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‘with a focus on those groups at particular risk of poverty, including among others migrant women, women from ethnic minorities, single women, older women, women with disabilities and women staying at home to care for a family member,’

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‘and regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity;’

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Text as a whole excluding the words ‘whereas regardless of how specific the groups at risk are, such as elderly women, single women, single mothers, lesbians, bisexual women, transgender women and women with disabilities, poverty rates among migrant women and women from ethnic minorities are the same throughout the EU;’

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‘whereas regardless of how specific the groups at risk are, such as elderly women, single women, single mothers, lesbians, bisexual women, transgender women and women with disabilities, poverty rates among migrant women and women from ethnic minorities are the same throughout the EU;’ without the words ‘lesbians, bisexual women, transgender women’

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‘lesbians, bisexual women, transgender women’

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‘whereas in times of economic recession people who are already at risk of living in poverty — who are more likely to be women — are in a vulnerable position in labour markets and with regard to social security, especially members of groups facing multiple discrimination;’

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‘whereas the EU LGBT Survey finds that lesbians and bisexual and transgender women face a disproportionate risk of discrimination on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity, in employment (19 %), education (19 %), housing (13 %), healthcare (10 %) and access to social services (8 %);’

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‘whereas this results in disproportionate risks to their economic and social wellbeing;’

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Text as a whole excluding the words ‘the Commission in close coordination with’, ‘and global’, ‘legislative’, ‘namely maternity, paternity, parental and carers' leave’, ‘the provision of individual and non-transferable’ and ‘on the most generous basis possible’

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‘the Commission in close coordination with’

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‘legislative’

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‘and global’

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‘namely maternity, paternity, parental and carers' leave’

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‘the provision of individual and non-transferable’

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‘on the most generous basis possible’

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‘Invites the Commission to carry out an impact assessment of minimum income schemes in the EU, and to consider further steps that would take into account the economic and social circumstances of each Member State as well as an assessment of whether those schemes enable households to meet basic personal needs;’

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‘invites the Commission to evaluate on this basis the manner of and the means for providing an adequate minimum income above the poverty threshold of 60 % of national median income in all Member States, in line with national practices and traditions and respecting Member States' individual characteristics in order to support social convergence across the EU;’

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‘once again urges the Member States to introduce a minimum national pension which cannot be lower than the risk-of-poverty threshold;’

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‘the right to’

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‘paying particular attention to women living in poverty, women with a disability and migrant women’

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‘Calls on the Commission to deepen its work on enforcement and the principles which underpin the single market; believes that early intervention with regard to national measures or implementation procedures which constitute unjustified NTBs may be effective and results more readily achieved than through infringement proceedings; underlines, nevertheless, that for serious or persistent failures or misapplication of Union law, the Commission must use all available measures, including prioritising infringement procedures, to ensure full implementation of EU legislation on the single market’

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‘and to ensure structural reforms in Member States;’

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‘Believes that many national administrative practices also give rise to unjustified NTBs, including requirements for formalising of documents by national bodies or offices;’

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‘urges Member States to use e-governance solutions, which includes prioritising interoperability and digital signatures, in order to modernise their public administrations, building on examples such as those in Estonia and Denmark, by providing more and better accessible digital services for citizens and businesses, and facilitate cross-border cooperation and the interoperability of public administrations, without affecting the protection of personal data; believes that the use of e-governance is an important tool for companies but that this should not exclude alternative ways of accessing information or disadvantage citizens who are unable to access digital services;’

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