12 Amendments of Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU related to 2020/2217(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the Commission’s intention to create a genuine single market for data as it will be the backbone of Europe’s data economy to fuel innovation, job creation, and efficiency gains across all sectors; considers that ensuring trust in digital services is fundamental for the digital single market and should be at the heart of both public policy and business models to advance Europe’s digital goals and global competitiveness; improved access to and availability of greater amounts of data, coupled with emerging tools and state of the art technologies that can be used to power insights while mitigating risks, will allow European citizens, businesses, researchers, and governments to better leverage the data they already possess while improving outcomes through enhanced collaboration with partners around the world;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the Commission’s intention to create a genuine single market for data as it will be the backbone of Europe’s data economy; considers that ensuring trust in digital services and in smart products is fundamental for the digital single market to grow and thrive and should be at the heart of both public policy and business models; underlines that that the creation of a single market for data is not an objective per se, but it should allow European companies and citizens to develop and benefit from innovative and competitive services and products;
Amendment 24 #
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 valueWay of Life's common values such as protection of fundamental rights and fairness in competition; believes that citizens’ data could help in developing innovative green solutionmore sustainable solutions for products and services that would benefit European consumers and companies; asks the Commission to consider how to supportpromote data altruism in full compliance with European legislation;
Amendment 26 #
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, while allowing for effective data usability; 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 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Underlines the societal benefits of promoting better access to public-sector data in ways that strengthen their usability across the EU; ensure a timely and effective implementation of the Open Data Directive and promote common formats for high-value datasets to make them combined and analysed from different Member States are essential for a truly harmonised Digital Single Market;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Highlights the need to create a singlecommon European data spaces with the aim of ensuring the free flow of non- personal data across borders and sectors; believes furthermore that the framework for the governance of common European data spaces should be built on the principles laid down in the Regulation on free flow of non-personal data; underlines the principle of the free flow of non- personal data as imperative for a single market for data, providing a level playing field for data sharing between stakeholders, taking into account in particular EU SMEs’ needs and allowing them to scale up and operate cross-border in the internal market; considers that business- to-business (B2B) and business-to- government (B2G) data sharing should be voluntary, while mandatory access to data should also be envisaged to remedy potential market failures;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Believes that mandatory access to data should also be envisaged to remedy potential market failures and considers in this regard that detailed provisions should be laid down in the upcoming Digital Markets Act; underlines that the proposal for a Digital Market Act should lay down provisions according to which economic entities considered as gatekeepers in the internal market should be required to contribute to data sharing with the relevant stakeholders;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Highlights that the Data Act should lay down provisions for the use of high quality and reliable datasets that are essential for the creation of a well- functioning single European data space and as well as for helping the EU companies to develop high quality products and services across the internal market;
Amendment 73 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Calls on the Commission to ensure consistency between the Data Act and the framework for the governance of common European data spaces, on the one hand, and the proposals under the Digital Services Act package on the other;
Amendment 84 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Underlines the need to improve access to European cloud services and to address interoperability issues, including codes of conduct, certification and standards, in a ‘cloud rulebook’; calls on the Commission to facilitate safe common European data spaces, based on a trustworthy and secure infrastructure with strong cybersecurity tools; considers proportionality to be the guiding principle for data quality and interoperability requirements; calls on the Commission to consider promoting existing standards to avoid unnecessary transaction costs and to provide high quality standards for sectors and data spaces of high importance for significant societal challenges.;
Amendment 87 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Underlines the need to improve access to European cloud services and to address interoperability issues, including codes of conduct, certification and standards, in a ‘cloud rulebook’; considers proportionality to be the guiding principle for data quality and interoperability requirements; calls on the Commission to consider promoting existing standards to avoid unnecessary transaction costs, overcome technical challenges, and to provide high quality standards for sectors and data spaces of high importance for significant societal challenges.;
Amendment 92 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Promotes secure, responsible use of data to build trust by working with other stakeholders to provide clear, concrete guidance on using shared data consistent with the GDPR; Supporting the use of privacy-enhancing technologies and robust security standards are essential to enable organisations to derive value from datasets that contain personal data in ways that do not put data protection at risk;