8 Amendments of Jean-Luc SCHAFFHAUSER related to 2016/2276(INI)
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas digitalisation and new technologies have changed forms of communication and the behaviour of consumers and companies, and whereas the ability to exercise control over these technologies is fundamental to safeguarding the sovereignty, independence and freedom of peoples;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas digital sovereignty is vital if Europe is to be technologically and economically independent and its citizens are to be protected against the pillaging of their data by the foreign champions of the digital industry, whether Asian or North American;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the evolving use of internet and mobile devices has created new business opportunities and business models and given rise to new security, economic and social risks;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph -1 (new)
Paragraph -1 (new)
-1. Notes that, although Europe still has major firms active in the hardware and software sectors, those firms need colossal amounts of funds if they are to invest and remain competitive internationally; points out, by way of an example, that constructing a plant to manufacture microprocessors less than 20 nanometres in size costs several billion euros; regards it as vital to the independence of European States that such manufacturing should continue in Europe, through STMicroelectronics, and that the manufacturing of industrial software should continue in Europe, through SAP and Dassault systems, so that the EU retains expertise in this sector;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph -1 a (new)
Paragraph -1 a (new)
-1a. Emphasises that investment in technologies developed and manufactured in Europe by European firms and not by subsidiaries of US or Asian oligopolies, is vital to the development of independent European platforms which guarantee States and citizens the highest possible degree of data security by preventing the use of 'back doors' and spy ware linked to the implementation of the Patriot Act or Chinese security legislation (in particular Article 25 of the law on national security of the People's Republic of China);
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Notes that platforms will be able to develop their full potential only in the context of a policy of digital sovereignty;
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Emphasises that, in the context of the development of the collection and processing of big data, the raw material for platforms at global level, Europe can only be independent if it requires data to be kept in Europe, stored by bona fide European actors, and not by subsidiaries of major concerns which are subject to foreign laws, and processed by bona fide European actors;
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 c (new)
Paragraph 8 c (new)
8c. Emphasises that the data economy needs to be completely reorganised around the principle that items of data belong to the party who issues them, who receives fair remuneration for them and who is involved in their management;