27 Amendments of Lina GÁLVEZ related to 2020/2217(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 6 a (new)
Citation 6 a (new)
- having regard to the findings of the Digital Economy and Society Index 2020, published on the 11th of June 2020
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 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
D a. whereas, according to Eurobarometer, the share of European citizens who would like to take a more active role in controlling the use of their personal data, including health, energy consumption and shopping habits (46%) is larger than those who would not like (38%);
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
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 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E b (new)
Recital E b (new)
E b. whereas the European strategy for data will be instrumental, among other things, to achieve industrial policy objectives and will be beneficial to help European businesses, including SMEs, to successfully face the digital transition;
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 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 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 137 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Supports the creation of a data governance framework for common European data spaces, covering interoperability, sharing, access and portability of data, to enhance the flow and reuse of industrial and public data; urges the governance framework to promote the “data for the public good” principle while always protecting the rights of EU citizens;
Amendment 189 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Recalls that personal and industrial data are not always separable; urges the Commission to define guidance on and practices in the utilisation of mixed data sets in industrial environments while guaranteeing privacy rules for personal data; calls on the Commission to consider creating a horizontal and cross-cutting personal data space alongside other data spaces to address the challenge of mixed data sets and empower citizens via, for example, trustworthy intermediators such as MyData operators, which store data with the consent of the owners; calls for further guidance by the Commission when it comes to the application of Regulation 2016/679 to mixed data sets, to ensure the full respect of data privacy;
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 206 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Encourages the Commission to facilitate voluntary data sharing schemes; urges the Commission to enact measures that would incentivise businesses to share their data, possibly through a reward system (win-win), with the objective of pooling vast sets of data, for it be equally accessed by EU businesses, in particular the less data rich, facilitating innovation; stresses the need for contracts to set clear obligations and liability for data aggregators when it comes to accessing, storing, sharing and processing data in order to limit the misuse of such data;
Amendment 214 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Notes that there are specific circumstances, such as systematic imbalances in B2B data value chains or specific circumstances of overriding public interest, where access to data should be compulsory e.g. via well-formed APIs; highlights that such imbalances are present in different sectors, such as e- commerce services, transport and tourism, where a small number of digital platforms, often from third countries, accumulate large amounts of sensitive data, while achieving an essential comparative advantage over EU businesses;
Amendment 240 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21 a. Calls for improved coordination among Member States to facilitate the cross border flow of data across sectors, through government and stakeholder dialogue, with the objective of establishing a common way of collecting data based on the principles of findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability;
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 325 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Calls on the Commission to promote STEM education, with a specific focus on gender equality, as well as software engineering, ICT talent attraction, employment of women in tech and data literacy skills for all in order to build a European know-how focusing on next-generation and forefront technologies;
Amendment 329 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Calls for public and private funding for SMEs to fully capitalise on data economy’s potential; and to integrate digital technologies; reminds that only a minority of SMEs use customer relationship management (CRM) systems to analyse commercial information; underlines that the achievement of data equality for small and medium enterprises not only includes access to data, but also entails the skills to carry out analytics and to extract insights from such information;
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 336 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 a (new)
Paragraph 30 a (new)
30 a. Welcomes the Digital Europe Programme and the role of the European Digital Innovation Hubs that will help European businesses, especially those still lagging behind, to keep up with the opportunities of the digital transition;
Amendment 342 #
31. Calls on social partners to explore the potential of digitalisation, data and AI to increase productivity, improve well- being of the workforce and invest in upskilling while respecting workers’ rights;
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;