29 Amendments of Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES related to 2020/2217(INI)
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Considers that the European strategy for data must take into account the General Data Protection Regulation while creating a veritable single market for data and ensuring consumer protection in the single market;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Urges the Commission to empower consumers to put them in control of their data and to ensure that the single market for data is grounded in European values and fairness in competition; calls on the Commission to adopt a cautious approach in order to ensure that consumers should always be able to decide who gets access to their personal data and under what circumstances; believes that citizens’ data could help in developing innovative green solutions and services that would benefit European consumers and companies; asks the Commission to consider how to support data altruism in full compliance with European legislation;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Urges the Commission to empower consumers to put them in control of their data and to ensure that the single market for data is grounded in European values and fairness in competition; believes that citizens’ data could help in developing innovative green solutions and services that would benefit European consumers and companies; asks the Commission to consider how to support data altruism in full compliance with European legislation; considers the exchange of data with third countries to be necessary, while ensuring data security and transparency;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
B a. whereas the EU requires the availability of flexible, scalable, reliable IT architecture, capable of supporting the most innovative applications;
Amendment 31 #
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 that aims to build a new open and inclusive knowledge economy, in connection with the education system and the cultural enterprises, that ensures the right to quality education and entrepreneurship, especially among the new generations, especially promoting forms of social innovation and new business models;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Recalls the importance of security and data protection as key elements for data sharing initiatives and the future EU data spaces; highlights that companies must comply with the GDPR in its entirety, including the principles of data minimisation, and data protection by design and by default; welcomes the Commission’s plan to adopt measures to enhance the portability right under Article 20 of the GDPR in its upcoming Data Act; encourages the Commission to facilitate the finalisation of the negotiations on the ePrivacy Regulation in order to ensure future-proof privacy in electronic communications;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
E a. whereas an adequate infrastructure is needed in the EU, through the use of high-performance hardware and storage to run applications and store data;
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E b (new)
Recital E b (new)
E b. whereas investments in skills in cloud and big data can help companies distant from technology to turn their business; and whereas companies considered to be at the forefront must remain constantly updated on recent technology innovations in order not to lose their competitive advantage;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the Commission communication entitled ‘A European strategy for data’; believes that it is a prerequisite for the viability of European industries, the progress of universities and research centres and nascent AI, and a vital step towards a democratic data society, which will bring better services, growth and jobs;
Amendment 67 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Calls on the Commission to pay particular attention to situations where data is co-generated and makes it difficult to identify to whom the data might refer to, which can pose difficulties as to who is entitled to apply data protection rights;
Amendment 71 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Encourages the Commission to establish proper mechanisms and the right conditions to make G2B data sharing widely and freely available, in a machine-readable format and through standardised Application Programming Interfaces (APIs); considers that this could include that businesses should only have access to the free data if they pay taxes in EU;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that the COVID-19 crisis highlights the role of real-time dataand high quality data and information;
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 d (new)
Paragraph 3 d (new)
3d. Emphasises that market surveillance authorities should have access to all relevant data in order to strengthen their actions and ensure sufficient control of products safety;
Amendment 80 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 e (new)
Paragraph 3 e (new)
3e. Encourages the Commission to assess possible mechanisms and tools to allow and encourage the donation of data by companies, which can be of public interest while respecting existing European legislation;
Amendment 90 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Underlines the important need to develop a cyber-secure and dynamic cloud ecosystem in Europe in order to deliver a successful and competitive Digital Single Market; encourages the Commission to develop a coherent cloud rulebook that takes into consideration the work of the Working Group on Switching Cloud providers and data porting (SWIPO) and seeks to ensure that customers can choose their cloud services providers as well as retrieve, transfer and move data to other clouds in a free and secure manner;
Amendment 96 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Considers that data is an essential element and resource of the European economy, which must be harnessed and to which European companies, including SMEs should have access, in compliance with the rules in force regarding data protection;
Amendment 101 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Suggests developing a technical and legal framework for data sharing to keep data secure and to ensure control over who access data and for what purpose; highlights initiatives such as the Nordic Smart Government which intends to enable SMEs to voluntary share data automatically and in real-time through a decentralised digital ecosystem;
Amendment 104 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Underlines that when defining standards for sharing data across sectors, the Commission should pay particular attention to the standards applying within the sector in order to ensure a coherent cross-sector data-sharing standard and avoid disadvantaging a sector towards another;
Amendment 110 #
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, and does not lead to inequality or digital gaps and also aims to improve the quality of life of the citizens;
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses that the Union’s data strategy must support sustainability, the Green Deal and, Union’s climate targets and social inclusion;
Amendment 200 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Urges the Commission to present a data act to encourage and enable an increasing B2B, B2G, G2B and G2G flow of data in all sectors for exploiting the full potential of unused industrial data ensuring cybersecurity; when personal data is tapped consumer protection and safeguarding personal data must be ensured;
Amendment 238 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Stresses the need to avoid service provider or technological lock-ins for publicly collected data; calls for public procurement processes and funding programmes to include data access and interoperability requirements based on technical standards;
Amendment 248 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22 a. Calls for fair and transparent contractual conditions to be respected for all market players. Users and consumers should also have the right to always know the location of their data. In the event that an EU operator uses cloud services located in non-EU countries, it is important to ensure the application of as high level of legal protection as in EU in the event of disputes, including those relating to intellectual property;
Amendment 255 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 b (new)
Paragraph 22 b (new)
22 b. Underlines the importance of defining a framework of rules capable of reconciling a broad and harmonised intellectual property protection with the sharing of data (original, derived and co- generated);
Amendment 278 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24 a. Welcomes the Commission infrastructure of High-Performance Computing; believes that it is an important instrument to exchange information and data between scientists and researcher and more broadly private and public actors;
Amendment 290 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25 a. Stresses that cloud infrastructures should be based on the principles of trust, openness, security, interoperability and portability;
Amendment 333 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Calls for public and private funding for SMEs and Social economy enterprises to fully capitalise on data economy’s potential;
Amendment 346 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 a (new)
Paragraph 31 a (new)
31 a. calls on the Commission to promote lifelong science-mathematics education in order to support the development of adequate digital skills and tools that adequately support processes related to artificial intelligence and cybersecurity;
Amendment 347 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 b (new)
Paragraph 31 b (new)
31 b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to also promote lifelong education in school systems and through information campaigns that aims to increase the awareness and responsibility of citizens as protagonists of the data economy society;