Activities of Amelia ANDERSDOTTER related to 2012/2030(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on completing the Digital Single Market
Amendments (9)
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Emphasises that broadband and the internet are important drivers for economic growth, job creation and European competitiveness, as well as boosting online commerce and services, but points out that more competition is needed to ensure net neutralityadditional regulatory measures are needed to ensure net neutrality; recalls the recent findings by BEREC showing that operators on both wired and wireless connections are increasingly blocking, filtering or prioritising traffic on non- technical grounds, as well as changing the terms of such blocking, filtering and prioritation, without giving their customers the time or ability to consent to such actions;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Re-emphasizes potential challenges when departing from network neutrality, including anticompetitive behaviour, blockage of innovation, restriction on freedom of expression, lack of consumer awareness and infringement of privacy and that the lack of net neutrality hurts both businesses, consumers and society as a whole;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for an integrated European market for card, internet and mobile payments; calls, a the same time, for a facilitated framework for e-invoicing; stresses in both these regards the importance of interoperability and open standards so as to facilitate maximum market potential and competition;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Emphasises the importance of ‘'one-stop- shops’' for VAT in order to facilitate cross- border e-commerce for SMEs and promote e-invoicing;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Emphasizes the importance of a harmonised approach to exceptions and limitations in the field of copyright, as well as the harmonised statutory exceptions to trademarks and patents, often for the benefit of researchers and developers, to ensure facilitated development, deployment and consumer uptake of new, innovative services and the legal certainty for researching teams, innovators, artists and users required for a prospering European digital environment to emerge;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to draw up national cyber-incident contingency plans to cope with cyber-disruptionEuropean and national critical information infrastructure plans and develop strategies for cyber- attacks with cross-border relevancea more resilient and reliable infrastructure which will enable the emergence of the digital market;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Makes note of the work already done in the European Parliament on criminal activities online, but stresses in this regard that the security industry and its strong potential for small-scale European entrepreneurship and innovation is dependent on the accessibility and legal deployment of testing equipment for network resilience and security;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Recognises that high-speed networks are a prerequisite for the development of online services and invites the Member States to further develop national broadband plans and adopt operational plans with concrete measures to implement the targets set in the Digital Agenda; calls for a European strategy for large-scale deployment of fibre-to-the-home;
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Recognises the major potential of cloud computing and calls on the Commission to propose without delay a European strategy on the outstanding issue of data privacy and the entrepreneurial and innovative potential in the field of jurisdictional control rewarded to citizens through cloud computing.