11. Stresses the need for a bottom-up approach to better regulation; recalls Parliament’s request to establish a new group on better regulation composed of stakeholders and national experts; welcomes the Commission’s proposals to establish a European Stakeholder Platform on better regulation; emphasise that the platform should consist of relevant stakeholders, including official representatives from the civil society, the social partners, consumer organisations and the business community, especially SMEs, which account for 80 % of European job-creation; stresses that the European Stakeholder Platform must be visible and independent, ...[+++]and must be able to address the administrative burdens caused by legislative proposals and the cost of compliance, and must respect of the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality; stresses that proposals from this platform should be actively considered by the Commission; underlines that the platform should also propose initiatives to improve regulation and help Member States implement EU legislation at national level;

transactions in commodity derivatives and emission allowances entered into to fulfil obligations to provide liquidity on a trading venue, where such obligations are required by regulatory authorities in accordance with Union law or with national laws, regulations and administrative provisions, or by trading venues.

It is appropriate that where the obligation to provide liquidity on a venue is required by regulatory authorities in accordance with Union or national laws, regulations and administrative provisions or by trading venues, the transactions entered into to meet such an obligation should be excluded in the assessment of whether the activity is ancillary .

information about the number, nature and status of any complaints made pursuant to Articles 59(4) or 64(1) as well as any complaints made against an auction platform to the national competetent authorities supervising that auction platform, the courts or competent administrative bodies provided for in the national measures transposing Article 52(2) of Directive 2004/39/EC’.

a "European Platform for Urban Mobility" or any other effective forum that brings together all data, best practices and policy information on urban mobility in a comprehensible way to allow citizens and policymakers easy access to vital information needed to develop urban mobility policies; stresses that such a platform should draw as much as possible from existing databases, resources and institutions, in order to avoid red tape and bureaucracy;

- a "European Platform for Urban Mobility" or any other effective forum that brings together all data, best practices and policy information on urban mobility in a comprehensible way to allow citizens and policymakers easy access to vital information needed to develop urban mobility policies; stresses that such a platform should draw as much as possible from existing databases, resources and institutions, in order to avoid red tape and bureaucracy;