Activities of Helga TRÜPEL related to 2009/2225(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions: Europe’s Digital Competitiveness Report - Main achievements of the i2010 strategy 2005-2009
Amendments (14)
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls for a strong digital agenda at EU level that offers economic and also social and cultural opportunities for all EU citizens; therefore requests the Commission to develop a comprehensive definition of the digital agenda and make it subject to further discussion with Parliament and the Council, in order to achieve common understanding among the EU institutions on key objectives and goals;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Calls for a comprehensive and integrated approach at EU level which not only promotes investment in new networks and platforms, but also deals with guarantees for the openness, universal accessibility and availability as well as safety of communication devices and infrastructures and contains an adequate policy on fostering media literacy skills, including raising awareness about the use of new technologies;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Recognises that Europe’s creative and cultural industries not only play an essential role in the promotion of cultural diversity, media pluralism and participatory democracy in Europe, but are also an important engine for sustainable growth in Europe, and thus can play a decisive role in EU economic recovery;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 d (new)
Paragraph 1 d (new)
1d. Stresses that a European digital agenda needs to promote the production and dissemination of high-quality and culturally diverse content in the EU in order to incentivise all EU citizens to adopt digital technologies such as the internet, and to maximise the cultural and social benefits EU citizens can derive from those technologies:
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 e (new)
Paragraph 1 e (new)
1e. Asks the Commission to develop, as part of the digital agenda, in particular a modern copyright framework that takes due account of digitisation and convergence of the media and to encourage the development of the internet, which offers many new chances for the circulation of and access to creative content but also poses risks, e.g. in the form of piracy of copyright- protected content;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 f (new)
Paragraph 1 f (new)
1f. Underlines that the so-called digital dividend is a valuable spectrum source for not only economic but also social and cultural development; urges the Commission to recognise the value of enabling highly popular existing platforms, such as digital terrestrial television, to evolve, as well as facilitating the development of other new technologies;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 g (new)
Paragraph 1 g (new)
1g. Underlines the importance of data protection in the digital world and urges the Commission to take account not only of data protection and privacy questions as such, but especially of the specific needs of minors and young adults with respect to these questions;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 h (new)
Paragraph 1 h (new)
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 i (new)
Paragraph 1 i (new)
1i. Urges the Commission to take due account of the Unesco Convention on Cultural Diversity when developing the digital agenda for Europe and to come up with a policy actively underpinning the objectives of the Convention;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 j (new)
Paragraph 1 j (new)
1j. Stresses that pluralism, freedom of the press and respect for cultural diversity are core values and end goals of the European Union; thus calls for the European Commission to ensure the compliance of all proposed EU policies with these values and goals;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Underlines the importance of teaching secondary school studenttudents of all levels how to use online resources, in particular governmental oa critical mannesr, in order to make them familiar with ICT and to increase their interest in the political environment, especially as far as content is concerned;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission to organise a hearing with stakeholders to find legal solutions for VOD as the lack of regulation in this area might affectso as to improve the ability of citizens to access European cultural products;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Emphasises the need to improve the use of Europeana, not as a competitor to Google Books, but as a complementary programme and its content, in particular through more contributions from the Member States and their cultural institutions, and with greater variety so as to include materials such as books, images and letters but also films, concerts or plays;