BETA

22 Amendments of Beatrix von STORCH related to 2017/2068(INI)

Beatrix von STORCH

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas the 2016 IOCTA reveals that cybercrime is increasing in intensity, complexity and magnitude, that reported cybercrime may have exceedsed traditional crime in some EU countries, that it extends to other areas of crime, such as human trafficking, that there has been a growing misuse of encryption and anonymisation tools and that ransomware attacks outnumber traditional malware threats such as Trojans;

2017/06/09
Committee: LIBE

Beatrix von STORCH

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Deplores that cyber-attacks against businesses often remain undetected or unreported; ~~believes that the obligation to disclose security breaches introduced by the GDPR will help to address this problem;~~

2017/06/09
Committee: LIBE

Beatrix von STORCH

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Welcomes, in this regard, the investment of EU funds in research projects such as the public-private partnership (PPP) on cybersecurity, to foster European cyber-resilience through innovation and capacity building;deleted

2017/06/09
Committee: LIBE

Beatrix von STORCH

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15 a. Stresses that the best protection against all forms of cyber threats is for private citizens, companies, organisations and governments to regularly update and properly implement appropriate cybersecurity measures; notes that this approach, as opposed to government intrusions e.g backdoors, mass data collection, hacking, protects rather than violates our rights and freedoms;

2017/06/09
Committee: LIBE

Beatrix von STORCH

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Calls on the Commission to put forward legislative measures setting out clear definitions and minimum penalties for the dissemination of fake news and online incitement to hate, the related obligations of internet service providers and penalties in the event of non- compliance;deleted

2017/06/09
Committee: LIBE

Beatrix von STORCH

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

~~19. Calls on the Commission to investigate the legal scope for improving the accountability of service providers and for imposing an obligation to respond to foreign EU law-enforcement requests;~~deleted

2017/06/09
Committee: LIBE

Beatrix von STORCH

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. Is concerned that a considerable number of cybercrimes remain unpunished; emphasises th~~e need to allow lawful~~at lawful hacking can allow law enforcement to access to relevant information~~, even if it has been encrypted, if such acce~~ for reasons of security and justice without compelling a company to ass ist i~~mperative f~~n compromising or rwea~~sons of security and justice~~kening its own product;

2017/06/09
Committee: LIBE

Beatrix von STORCH

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28

28. Underlines that the patchwork of separate, territorially defined national jurisdictions causes difficulties in determining the applicable law in transnational interactions and gives rise to legal uncertainty, thereby preventing cooperation across borders, which is necessary to deal efficiently with misuses online;deleted

2017/06/09
Committee: LIBE

Beatrix von STORCH

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29

29. Underlines that a common European approach to criminal justice in cyberspace is a matter of priority, as it will improve the enforcement of the rule of law in cyberspace and facilitate the obtaining of e-evidence in criminal proceedings;deleted

2017/06/09
Committee: LIBE

Beatrix von STORCH

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30

30. Underlines the importance of close cooperation between law enforcement authorities and the private sector on the issue of access to e-evidence; urges the Member States concerned to eliminate criminal law provisions prohibiting domestic service providers from responding to foreign law enforcement requests;deleted

2017/06/09
Committee: LIBE

Beatrix von STORCH

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31

31. Calls on the Commission to put forward a European legal framework for e-evidence, including harmonised rules to determine the status of a provider as domestic or foreign, and to impose an obligation on service providers to respond to requests from third countries, with a view to ensuring legal certainty for stakeholders and removing obstacles to cooperation;deleted

2017/06/09
Committee: LIBE

Beatrix von STORCH

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32

32. Calls on the Member States to implement fully the EIO Directive for the purposes of the effective securing and obtaining of e-evidence in the EU, as well as to include specific provisions relating to cyberspace in their national penal codes in order to facilitate the admissibility of e-evidence in court and to issue clearer guidance to judges regarding the penalisation of cybercrime;deleted

2017/06/09
Committee: LIBE

Beatrix von STORCH

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 6

~~Capacity-building at European level~~deleted

2017/06/09
Committee: LIBE

Beatrix von STORCH

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33

33. Recognises the important contribution of the Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) agencies, especially the European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) of Europol and Eurojust, as well as the European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA), to the fight against cybercrime;deleted

2017/06/09
Committee: LIBE

Beatrix von STORCH

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34

~~34. Calls on Europol to support national law enforcement authorities in setting up secure and adequate transmission channels;~~deleted

2017/06/09
Committee: LIBE

Beatrix von STORCH

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35

35. Calls on the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Training (CEPOL) and the European Judicial Training Network to extend their offer of training courses dedicated to cybercrime- related topics to competent law enforcement bodies and judicial authorities across the Union;deleted

2017/06/09
Committee: LIBE

Beatrix von STORCH

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36

36. Calls for sufficient funding and posts to be made available to the European Union’s Judicial Cooperation Unit (Eurojust) to allow the agency to cope with its increasing workload, as well as to develop and strengthen further its support to national cybercrime prosecutors in cross-border cases, including via the recently established European Judicial Cybercrime Network;deleted

2017/06/09
Committee: LIBE

Beatrix von STORCH

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37

37. Highlights the importance of close cooperation by the Member States with third countries in the global fight against cybercrime, including through the exchange of best practices, joint investigations, capacity-building, and mutual legal assistance;

2017/06/09
Committee: LIBE

Beatrix von STORCH

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38

38. Underlines that strategic and operational cooperation agreements between Europol and third countries facilitate both the exchange of information and practical cooperation; invites Europol to conclude agreements with all countries listed in the annex to the Europol regulation in due course;deleted

2017/06/09
Committee: LIBE

Beatrix von STORCH

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39

39. ~~Takes note of the fact that the~~Is concerned with the exceedingly high~~est~~ number of law enforcement requests ~~is sent to~~by the United States ~~and Canada; is concerned that the voluntary disclosure rate of big US service providers in response to requests from European criminal justice authorities falls short of 60 %~~for access to data held by European companies; Notes that this data often includes personally identifiable information;

2017/06/09
Committee: LIBE

Beatrix von STORCH

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40

40. Calls on the Commission to put forward concrete measures to address impediments to the exchange of information between European law enforcement authorities and third countries, notably the quick obtaining, upon a court decision, of relevant evidence, subscriber-related information as well as detailed meta- and content data (if not encrypted) from law-enforcement authorities and/or service providers with a view to improving mutual legal assistance;deleted

2017/06/09
Committee: LIBE

Beatrix von STORCH

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 41

~~41. Supports the capacity-building assistance provided by the EU to Eastern Neighbourhood countries, given that many cyber-attacks originate in them;~~deleted

2017/06/09
Committee: LIBE