Activities of Mikuláš PEKSA related to 2020/2216(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on shaping the digital future of Europe: removing barriers to the functioning of the digital single market and improving the use of AI for European consumers
Amendments (14)
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Calls on the Commission to assess the environmental impact of data sharing and the infrastructures required to ensure a sustainable digital deployment in line with the Green Deal.; Stresses that, despite the current high carbon footprint of development, deployment and use of artificial intelligence, robotics and related technologies, including automated decisions and machine learning, those technologies can contribute to the reduction of the current environmental footprint of the ICT sector; calls for the introduction of an EU digital sustainability index based on an analysis of product life cycles;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Points out that SMEs and other economic actors should use cooperation as much as possible, working in an ecosystem that benefits citizens and is able to support growth. The use of open source is a path towards open and sustainable digital transformation, both through open source software and open hardware - progressing towards European strategic autonomy in digital;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2 b. Stresses that an innovative and competitive data economy is built on openness ; stresses in this context the need to avoid service provider or technological lock-in for public data collection processes and calls for all Union public procurement processes and funding programmes to include open data access, mandatory interoperability and portability requirements, as well as to promote the use of open-source software and hardware;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Stresses that enabling sharing and access to essential and well-defined data sets will be key to fully unlock the potential of the Green Deal; calls on the Commission to assess which datasets are essential for the ecological transition in the context of sustainable products and services, inter alia in product manufacturing, transportation, carbon, energy and biodiversity impact, as well as their end-of life handling; calls on the Commission to consider extending the scope of the high value datasets defined in Directive (EU) 2019/1024 on Open Data to private actors;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Believes that there is an urgent need to incentivise access to the data that is currently locked in the private sector, while ensuring that the use of public money always result in public data. To that regard, calls for the establishment of a "public money, public data" principle and call for incentives meant to give SMEs access to non personal data produced by other private stakeholders in a voluntary and mutually benefiting process;
Amendment 89 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8 a. Calls for impact assessments on the consequences of a digital future on people. Recalls that those without digital skills are left behind and digital infrastructure cannot evolve and function without proper operators. Calls for mitigation of negative impact through reskilling and upskilling. Underlines that the gender dimension needs to be taken into account, given the insufficient representation of women in STEM and digital companies;
Amendment 117 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10 a. Points out that the most efficient way of reducing bias in data based systems is by ensuring that the maximum of non-personal data is available to train them, for which it is necessary to limit any unnecessary barrier to text-and-data mining,and to facilitate cross-border uses; notes in addition that public domain or freely licensed data are often used by AI and machine learning developers when selecting training data, both for ease of access and to avoid potential infringement liability exposure, which creates a particular form of selection bias in training data, which can often lead to other forms of more harmful bias in results; emphasises the need to address remaining uncertainties related to the legal performance of text and data mining that developers may still face;
Amendment 123 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10 b (new)
Paragraph 10 b (new)
10 b. Highlights that the sharing of data should be used to enhance competition; emphasises the need for adequate safeguards against market failures on data markets; suggest that the Commission takes advantage of the review of horizontal and vertical competition guidelines to introduce new tools to counter excessive market concentration, inherent to data markets, including, inter alia ongoing monitoring for at-risk- markets and, where necessary, ex-ante regulation;
Amendment 127 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10 c (new)
Paragraph 10 c (new)
10 c. Considers that at all times, protection of private data should remain a priority. Data minimization should be the principle followed by purpose limitation, in full compliance with GDPR;
Amendment 138 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11 a. Calls to safeguards meant to ensure that we will always having human control on algorithms and ensure that proper and effective redress mechanisms are in place; To that regard, calls to ensure that algorithms are openly auditable; Calls for a ban on facial recognition algorithms for the wide damage they poseto fundamental rights of individuals;
Amendment 152 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12 a. Calls to avoid encouraging a business model based on restricting access to data and knowledge, which is especially harmful to SMEs; Therefore we would caution against pushing for new IPR limitations and the use of trade secrets as a barrier, while advocating for removing restrictions on databases and ensuring that public data maintains it's open character and cannot be privatised; Reminds that according to the first evaluation of Directive 96/9/EC on the legal protection of databases, the introduction of a new “sui generis right” has led to a decrease in the production of European produced databases; therefore encourages the Commission to repeal Directive 96/9/EC;
Amendment 156 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 12 b (new)
Paragraph 12 b (new)
12 b. Calls for further support for European trade competition regulation making sure that European market will be active, highly competitive and resistant to foreign take overs;
Amendment 158 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 12 c (new)
Paragraph 12 c (new)
12 c. Calls for further support on screening procedures for further investment, with special scrutiny to be given to take overs of technological companies including startups;