20 Amendments of Dominique BILDE related to 2016/2271(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls that, with some 40 % of EU workers across the EU lacking adequate digital skills, the UnionEuropean countries are facesing a digital skills gap; takes note of the Commission’s recent Communications on ‘Digitising European industry’ and ‘A New Skills Agenda for Europe’ as, which may prove to be a first step in the right direction with regard to improving digital skills;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Stresses, in this regard, the substantial potential benefits for companies in going digital, as has been seen with French companies where those who have chosen to switch to digital have recorded a 38% growth in turnover from new activities and improved their customer experience;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission, in accordance with its powers, to place digital skills at the heart of its upcoming revision of the Key Competences Framework; encourages the Member States to further develop primary, secondary and tertiary education curricula, as well as vocational training programmes, to meet the needs of an increasingly digital labour market, without neglecting the acquisition of basic knowledge, as advocated in the New Skills Agenda for Europe; emphasises the need for proper teacher training;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Believes that basic digital skills – taught as part of primary and secondary education curricula – should encompass safe internet behaviour and, including prevention measures with regard to sites promoting violence, pornography and harassment, since children and young people are particularly vulnerable to these attacks; insists also on the need to incorporate awareness- raising about rights online;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses the importance of incorporating a digital skills agenda into lifelong learning programmes for older people, who represent 18.9 % and rising of the total population of the European Union; points out, in this connection, that in some European countries, such as France, the unemployment rate among the over-50s is rising by 5.3% a year, and that more than 60% of the long-term unemployed are in the 55 to 64 age bracket;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Considers it vital, therefore, for Member States to improve the opportunities for vocational training and learning for older people, especially in the digital sector, for example by reducing the administrative burden on small and medium-sized enterprises to encourage them to invest more in these workers, who represent an enormous added value in terms of the transfer of skills and know- how to younger generations;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Highlights the considerable disparity across Member States in terms of digitisation and digital skills; considers that promotbenefits could be gained from Member States exchanging best practice exchange and dialogue can bridge that gap; highlights the potential of the Grand Coalition for Digital Jobs in this respect; suggests that, for research and development in the digital sector, lessons could also be learned from European countries' successes in major joint ventures in the aerospace sector;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Emphasises that Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs) are both drivers and beneficiaries of digital innovation; points out that, as they are often small and micro-enterprises, CCIs companies with fewer than nine employees in the CCIs account for more than 90% of the workforce in these industries and therefore need targeted support to help them ‘go digital’ in a secure and effective manner.
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – point b a (new)
Paragraph 2 – point b a (new)
(ba) maintaining and enhancing the technological independence of Europeans by investing in key points of the digital industry’s value chain: semiconductors, operating systems and cloud computing;
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – point c
Paragraph 2 – point c
(c) Rejuvenating an EU resource policy for all Member States that goes hand in hand with a strengthened European circular economy;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – point g
Paragraph 2 – point g
(g) Improving the livelihoods of citizens in urban and non-urban areas; putting an end to ‘white areas’;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – point j
Paragraph 2 – point j
(j) Partnering with other macro- regions in the world in developing innovative and fair digital open markets, while ensuring a high level of security in the flow and transfer of data;
Amendment 149 #
5. Stresses that integrated industrial digitalisation must be based on strong enabling conditions and on a synergy between hardware and software actors;
Amendment 202 #
10. Notes the important role of cities in providing digital infrastructure and support for SMEs, entrepreneurs and industry, and the immense opportunities which digital- industrial innovation holds for cities; asks the Commission to look into the US ‘Cities Innovation Technology Investment Initiative (CITIIS)’; welcomes the publication of a European Digital City Index;
Amendment 244 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Underlines the role of cybersecurity within the digitalisation of Europe’s industry; considers cyber-resilience as crucial and cybersecurity as a core sector for European digitalisation efforts; believes that producers are responsible for ensuring safety and security standards on the basis of the available state of the art technology; notes that cybersecurity requirements for the Internet of Things (IoT) and IT security standards must strengthen European cyber- resilience; believes that European standardisation bodies, in synergy with national agencies for information systems security, have a special role to play in this respect;
Amendment 255 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Believes that there should be common criteria forfinancial and technical support should be provided to Member States for the protection of critical infrastructure and the digital security thereof;
Amendment 264 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Stresses the need for monitoring of data sovereignty; believes that the protection of industrial data, protectionarticularly strategic industrial data, and data ownership, especially b2b, require special attention; notes that open data and open standards can promote new technologies;
Amendment 274 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Recognises the importance of protecting technical know-how as regards the exchange and interlinkage of industrial- digital components and the manufacturing of microprocessors in Europe, while at the same time allowing and furthering secure connectivity;
Amendment 321 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Underlines that education must include digital skills, particularly programming, and that these must be integrated into national education curricula;
Amendment 331 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Recommends the establishment of a bi-annual progress review and recommendations on the digitalisation of industry; requests that this review be submitted to the ITRE Committee;