6 Amendments of Marcel KOLAJA related to 2021/2107(DEC)
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 88 a (new)
Paragraph 88 a (new)
88 a. Deeply regrets that some parliamentary committee secretariats require Members to exclusively use proprietary software from Microsoft or Apple; believes that all Members should remain able to use any IT equipment they wish, including open-source technology;
Amendment 173 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 88 b (new)
Paragraph 88 b (new)
88 b. Recalls the added-value of free and open-source software in improving security since they make it possible for Parliament to identify and fix weaknesses, keep control over the data by hosting in its servers and designing solutions according to its own specifications, while being able to avoid vendor lock-in effects;
Amendment 174 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 88 c (new)
Paragraph 88 c (new)
88 c. Recalls its preference for free and open-source software solutions as against proprietary ones when considering new internal applications; asks for situations to be reported to the ICT governing bodies when open source solutions are not chosen;
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 88 d (new)
Paragraph 88 d (new)
88 d. In line with the previous Parliament discharge resolution and in order to significantly increase the confidentiality of its internal communication, asks the relevant services to test the integration and deployment of solutions for instant messaging and virtual meetings that are open source based, hosted in the Parliament's servers, and which enable secure communication such as Matrix and Jitsi;
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 88 e (new)
Paragraph 88 e (new)
88 e. Appreciates that Parliament's services are working to further improve the quality and accessibility of the publicly available data of the institution by adopting open data principles for re- use and redistribution, which were presented to the Bureau working group on ICT Innovation in April 2021; welcomes Parliament’s open data portal initiative, which aims to accommodate publicly available datasets in an easily accessible and user-friendly way, as well as provide data in an interoperable, machine-readable format and thus put into practice the open data principles on technical, legal, practical and social openness;
Amendment 177 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 88 f (new)
Paragraph 88 f (new)
88 f. Welcomes the fact that the Security-General adopted the information security policy in June 2020, identifying the different categories of data and establishing the related conditions that must be observed for their handling and storage, based on a data protection impact assessment and security assessment; notes the Commission’s intension to propose for a regulation covering the information security and aiming at improved harmonisation of treatment among the different institutions, bodies and agencies;