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Activities of Nicola BEER related to 2020/2216(INI)

Plenary speeches (1)

2021/05/19
Dossiers: 2020/2216(INI)

Opinions (1)

2021/03/23
Committee: ITRE
Dossiers: 2020/2216(INI)
Documents: PDF(146 KB) DOC(59 KB)
Authors: [{'name': 'Nicola BEER', 'mepid': 197437}]

Amendments (19)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1 a. Highlights that market fragmentation prevents companies to scale up rapidly and to create synergies and economies of scale, underlines that more harmonisation with a high level of protection of consumers across all Member States is also the best way to build trust to Europeans when using services of buying goods cross border and facilitate the development of technologies. Reminds that according to estimates of the European Parliament Research Service in its 'Costs of non-Europe in the Single Market' study that completing the SingleMarket would entail economic gains ranging from 651 billion to 1.1 Trillion EURO per year, equivalent to a range of 5 %to 8.63% of EU GDP;

2020/12/21
Committee: ITRE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Recognises that the EU has an enormously strong SME sector; recalls that this second wage of digitalisation could lead to a strong industrial development of SMEs; calls for a goal of 500 digital unicorns within 10 years; recognises that SMEs are the backbone and the future of European economy;recognises the role of SMEs in skilling, reskilling and upskilling employees; calls that any new laws and regulations reduce the administrative burden on small and medium-sized businesses;

2020/12/21
Committee: ITRE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2 a. Welcomes the Commission's proposal for a Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act which includes an ambitious reform of the digital space, a comprehensive set of new rules for all digital services, including social media, online market places, and other online platforms that operate in the European Union:

2020/12/21
Committee: ITRE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Emphasises that the COVID crisis provides an opportunity to speed up digitalisation; ~~calls for financial incentives for SMEs that want to enter new markets;~~ therefore calls for accelerating the completion of the digital single market by pushing ahead a European-wide gigabit- broadband network;by further developing the existing data protection law into a modern data law, which at the same time enables innovative digital future technologies and business models and protects the personal rights of citizens;by guaranteeing the right to encryption of citizens to protect data that may be obtained through foreign intelligence activities or cyber-attacks;by further fostering cybersecurity by supporting a European research strategy in the field of quantum computing in order to be able to guarantee secure encryption of data in the future and to invest in the cyber security of the systems and technologies that support the internet as such and the networked systems derived from it; calls for financial incentives for SMEs that want to enter new markets; underlines the importance of trade and globalisation for prosperity and peace, therefore calls for efforts to be made to ensure that COVID does not lead to a re- nationalisation of trade and therefore proposes an action plan to help European companies to become geographically active in new markets;

2020/12/21
Committee: ITRE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Calls for special economic digital zones to promote structural change and create development cores for new digital economic structures; therefore, proposes the creation of a special EU start-up zone with less bureaucracy, excellent infrastructure, a special taxation Regime, a n Environment of "regulatory sandboxes" and best support for top research; suggests full scholarships with the aim of bringing together the best minds in Europe worldwide in order to drive innovation, technology and prosperity of the future; believes that this is where the future opportunities lie, especially for Europe's economically weaker regions;

2020/12/21
Committee: ITRE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Calls on the Commission to stop funding big companies and distributing the remaining funds by a shotgun approach; calls for winners to be picked and grown larger; suggests prioritising future areas for digital economic structures; believes that the current funding policy needs to be developed further more efficiently and needs to overcome any silo culture of research funding;

2020/12/21
Committee: ITRE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Demands an end to the exodus of start-ups that do not receive follow-up- funding in Europe but find it elsewhere; calls for improving the taxation frameworks for venture capital in Europe; calls to stop the Exodus of young companies in Europe which leave the EU because they do not receive funding after entering the market.

2020/12/21
Committee: ITRE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7

7. Calls for massive investment in clusters of excellence; therefore, supports the Commission's proposal to promote the establishment of centers of excellence and testing to increase synergies and networks between AI research centers, with the aim of promoting excellence, attracting and keeping the best researchers and developing the level of technology; suggests that in addition to the centers, efforts should be made to create and support flexible network-based structures based on cooperation between higher education institutions and industry in the development of artificial intelligence;

2020/12/21
Committee: ITRE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 9

9. Recognises that AI deployment is key to European competitiveness in the digital era; highlights that to facilitate the uptake of AI in Europe, a common European approach is needed to avoid internal market fragmentation; is convinced that creating a clear European regulatory framework and long-term legal certainty will increase trust of consumers, public sector and businesses in AI, which will accelerating the uptake of AI throughout different sectors;

2020/12/21
Committee: ITRE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9 a. Recognises that Artificial Intelligence is one of the key-technologies for future innovation, sustainable economic growth, and welfare. Emphasis that in a globalized economy, Europe must take on a leading position in the research of Artificial Intelligence and development of Artificial Intelligence applications to stay competitive and become digitally sovereign;

2020/12/21
Committee: ITRE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 b (new)

9 b. Stresses the importance of avoiding creating uncertainty about how AI technologies can be used; recognises that stakeholders in research, industry politics and society need a clear and easily comprehensible legislative framework that regulates the use of AI where needed;

2020/12/21
Committee: ITRE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 c (new)

9 c. Calls for the creation of an digital ecosystem in which SMEs can participate in the technological innovation around AI; emphasises that SMEs will need clear guidelines and legal certainty on how to adopt the new regulations; recalls that any new regulatory burden is much more difficult and more expensive for SMEs and therefore SMEs must be relieved twice as much of administrative burden;

2020/12/21
Committee: ITRE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 d (new)

9 d. Underlines the significance of a common European approach. remindes that according to an estimate by the European Parliamentary Research Service, a common European approach to ethical aspects of AI has the potential to create up to 294.9 billion euros in additional GDP and 4.6 million jobs in the EU by 2030;

2020/12/21
Committee: ITRE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 10

10. Considers that access to big data is key for the development of AI; calls for a new approach to data regulation; considers therefore that data should be at the heart of digitisation; considers that a balanced approach is needed when it comes to access to data, which will foster innovation and data sharing through voluntary means, while protecting other legitimate interests, such as IPR, privacy and trade secrets; considers that further developing data regulation beyond the concept is key in order to unleash the potential of AI; calls therefore for a new data regulation taking into account the legal principle of property rights; considers that any future data regulation needs to put a specific focus on access to data by research and SMEs in a balanced approach which bests supports innovation;

2020/12/21
Committee: ITRE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 11

11. Warns against overregulating AI; recalls that regulation must be balanced, agile, permanently evaluated, and based on soft regulation except for high-risk areas; emphasis that any regulation must be flexible enough to not over-regulate and therefore slow down the current and future progress in AI – especially in areas with very little risk of negative impact; Stresses that the regulation of AI has to be proportional to the risk it is aiming to reduce;

2020/12/21
Committee: ITRE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11 a. Underlines that existing regulation in critical areas such as automotive, Finance, healthcare, aviation, transport should be applied wherever possible; suggests that these regulations should be reviewed and updated if necessary to include recent technological advancements;

2020/12/21
Committee: ITRE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 11 b (new)

11 b. Suggests that AI should be distinguished by categories of use cases; suggests that new use cases that are not covered by existing regulations should be classified by their potential risk which is based on a clear and transparent framework; calls that only AI systems that bear high risk shall be topic for a potential regulation;

2020/12/21
Committee: ITRE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 11 c (new)

11 c. Considers it necessary to create an ecosystem which allows AI research from public and private institutions to develop the next Generation of AI in an environment of “regulatory sandboxes”, which would allow AI Research even in potentially high-risk use cases;

2020/12/21
Committee: ITRE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 12

12. Calls for a European Disruptive Innovation Agency which concentrates on first stage research.; in this context very much appreciates the plans to further develop the European Innovation Council under Horizon 2021-2027 into a full Council offering a “one stop shop” for start-ups, offering improved funding instruments and a Business Acceleration Service, learning from its pilot phase;

2020/12/21
Committee: ITRE