24 Amendments of Eleonora EVI related to 2020/2217(INI)
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas digitalisation has transformed the economy, society and citizens’ daily lives, and whereas data, which is duplicated every 18 months, is at the heart of this transformation; whereas these processes will only accelerate in the future;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the Union must urgently take action to reap the benefits of data by building an ethically sustainable, human- centric, trustworthy and secure data society that respects human rights and, democracy and the rule of law and benefits all;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that the COVID-19 crisis highlights the role of real-time data while showing severe infrastructural shortcomings in all those areas in Europe that do not have reliable access to broadband and those basic tools that are necessary to participate in the digital transformation;
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Believes that the Union’s aim must be an EU-governed, human-centric, data- driven society built on trust and values of privacy, transparency and fundamental rights, that put individual interest first while also fostering the common good;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes that a well-built data society benefits all, empowers workers instead of lowering their working conditions, secures the role and needs of SMEs vis à vis large multinationals, firmly supports local communities and does not lead to inequality or digital gaps;
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses that the Union’s data strategy must supporthave sustainability, at its core and be an enabler for the Green Deal and the Union’s climate targets;
Amendment 143 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Stresses the need to further clarify the GDPR to provide companies with legal certanty and allow them to fully develop the potential of data economy; encourages Member States to coordinate and further harmonise their national data strategies;
Amendment 166 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10 a. Stresses that data spaces should be based on collaborative, transparent and non-discriminatory rules and should be open to all actors; calls on the Commission to strengthen its action in favour of an open explicable and inclusive data management, from access to reuse, where the reproduction of bias is effectively prevented;
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11 a. Expresses the need to foster a partnership culture between private and public sectors in data sharing, also by providing incentives, in order to achieve the full potential of data partnerships;
Amendment 179 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12 a. Stresses the importance of having datasets based on generally accepted taxonomies at EU level in order to facilitate the accessibility, reliability and ultimately the usability of data;
Amendment 202 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15 a. Calls for the creation of EU guidance mechanisms for business, such as support centres for data sharing, in order to address any potential concern on data security, privacy and liability, thus facilitating the exchange of data;
Amendment 204 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)
Paragraph 15 b (new)
15 b. Calls on the Commission to analyse the concept of data trusts as a tool in the context of B2C with the aim of empowering citizens through the choice on how to use their data;
Amendment 209 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Encourages the Commission to facilitate voluntary data sharing schemes and to further explore the concepts of data donation and data altruism, defining clear, easy and secure schemes that would allow willing citizens to give access to their data for the common good;
Amendment 246 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Reminds the Commission and the Member States to respect Open Data Directive objectives when negotiating the implementing act on high-value data sets; calls for these data sets to include inter alia a list of company and business registers, as well as all data sets that are relevant to ensuring the transition to climate neutrality by at least 2050;
Amendment 267 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23 a. Recalls that for citizens and businesses to fully benefit from the data revolution without being left behind, there is an urgent need to develop and reinforce the digital infrastructure in the EU and especially in most peripheral areas where the population suffers from a digital gap and often lacks access to the most basic digital equipment and infrastructures, such as broadband connections;
Amendment 279 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24 a. Considers that the roll out of 5G, 6G and every future technology with the potential of affecting human health or the environment should be dealt with on the basis of the precautionary principle;
Amendment 287 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Amendment 291 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 b (new)
Paragraph 25 b (new)
25 b. Stresses the importance of elaborating strategies to manage E-waste through recycling, upcycling, repurposing or reusing and to incentivise eco-design principles for ICT products and services; calls for broadening the scope of the Eco- design Directive 2009/125/EC to include more ICT products, services and structures such as data centres or cloud services;
Amendment 292 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 c (new)
Paragraph 25 c (new)
25 c. Underlines that the digital sector is highly energy-intensive and is responsible for almost the 4% of global greenhouse gas emissions; highlights, in particular, the role of data centres which account today for more than 1% of the world's electricity consumption; insists that energy efficiency, circular economy and environmental protection requirements should be at the core of the development of digital technologies and the deployment of data centres;
Amendment 293 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 d (new)
Paragraph 25 d (new)
25 d. Praises the Commission's intention of achieving highly energy- efficient, sustainable and climate-neutral data centres by 2030, and invites the Commission to swiftly propose corresponding regulatory initiatives and measures; in this context, urges the Commission to promote innovative and best available solutions for mitigating the environmental, resource and energy impact of data centres such as thermal containment, cooling, waste heat utilisation, while also promoting renewable energy installation requirements;
Amendment 312 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)
Paragraph 27 a (new)
27 a. Supports the concept of data protection by design and by default as requirements for producers of products, services and applications that are based on the processing of personal data;
Amendment 316 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 b (new)
Paragraph 27 b (new)
27 b. Believes that making sure that data-related innovation benefits all is essential and that for this to happen there is a need to improve the general data skill and literacy of the population by, inter alia, including data management in academic education of students and in training programs for professionals;
Amendment 352 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. Believes that global rules governing the use of data are inadequate; calls on the Commission to work with like-minded third countries to agree on new international standardsand taking action in multilateral coordination to agree on new international standards, in coherence with EU values and principles, to govern the use of new technologies, such as AI;
Amendment 364 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33
33. Calls for the free flow of data between the Union and third countries only when privacy, security and other legitimate public policy interests are met; calls on the Commission to negotiate new rules for the global digital economy, including the prohibition of unjustified data localisation requirements;