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Changes from report parliamentary committee draft to plenary report
ECON-PR-765240 → A-10-2025-0071
- From
- ECON-PR-765240 report parliamentary committee draft of 11 Dec 2024
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- A-10-2025-0071 Plenary report of 15 Apr 2025
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- 16 changes to the text
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- +52 added · −21 removed · 13 changed
More facts (3)
- Dossier
- 2024/2079(INI)
- Title (from)
- on competition policy – annual report 2024
- Title (to)
- on competition policy – annual report 2024
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The report broadens the scope of competition policy to include sustainability, energy, defence, and innovation, and adds references to the Draghi and Letta reports.1234 It strengthens State aid conditions, including bans for tax haven companies and a European Competitiveness Fund, and adds deadlines for IPCEI notifications.9 It expands merger control scrutiny to killer acquisitions and digital markets, and adds calls for a new competition tool and structural remedies.10111213 It adds numerous sector-specific concerns, including digital concentration, AI, financial sector, food supply chains, and payments, and calls for investigations.14 It increases Parliament's role in competition policy and updates the explanatory statement.1516
The notes class 14 changes as substance, 1 as formal, 1 as wording only.
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Part 3 of 3: EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
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RemovedAccording to Rule 56(2) of the Rules of Procedure, the explanatory statement will be included closer to the vote.
AddedThe 2024 Annual Competition Report serves as a key instrument to take stock of competition policy in the Union and is drawn up against the backdrop of a challenging economic and geopolitical context.
AddedThe first section of the report, general considerations, recalls that EU competition seeks to shield against excessive levels of concentration and accumulations of market power. It acknowledges the key role of European competitiveness and welcomes the input of the Draghi and Letta reports.
AddedThe ‘a competitive union’ section stresses that State aid granted should be consistent with EU policy objectives. It cautions for the fragmentation that may be caused by overreliance on national State aid. It reiterates the Draghi report’s call for substantial additional public and private investments, and underlines the important role of completion of the Capital Market Union herein.
AddedThe next section of the report dwells on key demands as regards enforcement priorities, in which we take note of the suggestion of Draghi to introduce a new competition tool (NCT). It also asks the Commission to enforce exploitative abuse cases, and asks the Commission to assess the position of social services of general interest and an SGEI exemption for affordable housing.
AddedRegarding mergers the report dwells on the implications of the recent Illuma-Grail case for the capacity of the Commission to address killer acquisitions. It asks the Commission to explore the possibility to review of the Merger Regulation with appropriate involvement of the Parliament. We also welcome the innovation defence while upholding that the Commission, in certain cases, should be enabled to invoke matters of public interest when assessing mergers.
AddedThe sectoral policy section dwells inter alia on topical developments in the fields of taxation and digitalisation, and points out the continued over-concentration and over-reliance on certain third country service providers in the financial sector, as well as possible avenues to address these issues.
AddedFinally the report asks for proper democratic involvement of the Parliament in shaping competition policy.
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European Parliament (2025). “Changes between ECON-PR-765240 and A-10-2025-0071”. Text, 15 April 2025. from ECON-PR-765240, to A-10-2025-0071, reference 2024/2079(INI). EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/texts/ECON-PR-765240/compare/A-10-2025-0071?all=1&part=3 (retrieved 27 September 2026). Data: European Parliament Open Data, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/ (CC BY 4.0).
BibTeX
@misc{epw-text-2025-04-15,
author = {{European Parliament}},
title = {{Changes between ECON-PR-765240 and A-10-2025-0071}},
year = {2025},
date = {2025-04-15},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/texts/ECON-PR-765240/compare/A-10-2025-0071?all=1&part=3}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/texts/ECON-PR-765240/compare/A-10-2025-0071?all=1&part=3},
urldate = {2026-09-27},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Text. from ECON-PR-765240, to A-10-2025-0071, reference 2024/2079(INI). Data: European Parliament Open Data (CC BY 4.0)}
}