11 Amendments of Jean-Lin LACAPELLE related to 2020/2217(INI)
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on the Commission and Member State authorities to combat tax evasion and abuses of dominant positions by non-European businesses active on the market for algorithmic systems for personal-data analysis;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Calls for consideration to be given to different models for the taxation of digital businesses in order to prevent across-the-board user surveillance; states that taxing digital businesses according to the volume of data they collect, analyse or store would make it possible to rebalance economic models based on ‘surveillance capitalism’ and to protect consumers;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Highlights the need to create a single European data space with the aim of ensuring the free flow of non-personal data across borderall Member States and sectors; 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; 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 relating to the monopoly exercised by particular third- country actors;
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Emphasises how important it is that European citizens’ personal data should preferably be processed in Europe;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Points to the unique nature of certain personal data, such as health data, children’s data and intimate private data, e.g. sexual preferences or personal photos; stresses that anonymisation of such data should be guaranteed and that storage or analysis thereof outside the European Union should not be authorised;
Amendment 72 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Considers that a Member State should be able to oblige cloud service providers and digital businesses operating in the European Union, whether located in the European Union or in a third country, to provide access to any relevant personal data relating to terrorism, even if stored in a third country;
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 d (new)
Paragraph 3 d (new)
3d. Regrets that the Commission does not envisage any specific protection for Europeans with critical economic responsibilities against third-country laws such as the US Cloud Act; states that that legislation allows third-country law enforcement authorities to access personal data in connection with criminal investigations that are sometimes conducted on economic competition grounds; states that the strategic impact of such cases is sometimes considerable for European firms, Alstom being a case in point,;
Amendment 97 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Points out that the development of a European industrial and technological base requires the introduction of a European preference for local or European production in digital procurement in Europe;
Amendment 99 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Considers that any authorisation by a contracting authority for economic operators from countries outside the European Union or the European Economic Area to participate in a procedure for the award of digital contracts, such as for cloud services, must take into account, inter alia, the imperatives of information and supply security, the safeguarding of defence and state security interests, the interest in developing a European digital industrial and technological base, and reciprocity requirements;
Amendment 106 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Points to the need to protect European subcontractors and producers of critical digital components, applications or systems in view of the predatory approach of third-country businesses;
Amendment 107 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 d (new)
Paragraph 4 d (new)
4d. Points out that, in the United States, the government has invested massively in new technologies: USD 1 400 billion in 20 years since the inception, in the early 1990s, of Al Gore’s information superhighway plan; points out that, by comparison, the EUR 2 billion investment planned by the Commission in a project on European data spaces and federated cloud infrastructure appears derisory; calls therefore on the Commission to authorise Member State aid to strengthen local or European businesses active in the field of digital data and to put an end to third-country businesses’ monopoly in Europe in this strategic area;