25 Amendments of Patrizia TOIA related to 2009/2225(INI)
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas competitive communications markets are important in ensuring that users receive maximum benefits in terms of choice, quality and affordable prices,
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses the importance of continuing efforts towards ubiquitous and high-speed access for all citizens and consumers, through the promotion of users' access to fixed and mobile Internetbroadband and the deployment of next-generation infrastructure and services; emphasises that this requires policies that promotesupport competition, choice and diversity in high speed services delivering access on fair terms and at competitive prices for all citizens and communities, irrespective of location, thereby ensuring that no European citizen faces exclusion, and that create incentives to sustain private investment in next-generation access infrastructures so as to exploit the potential of the Internet for the benefit of European citizens and small businesses;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Believes that every EU household should have access to broadband Internet at a competitive price by 2013; believes that this result could be reached using a combination of different technologies to provide cost-effective and environmentally friendly broadband connectivity in a given area based on constant, high quality performance; urges the Commission therefore to carry out a review of the universal service obligations and calls on Member States to impart new impetus to the European high-speed broadband strategy, notably by updating national targets for broadband and high- speed coverage;
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Recalls that the universal service regime should serve as an effective safety net for consumers while not distorting the market and not imposing an additional burden on operators and consumers;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Calls upon the Commission to promote all available policy instruments to achieve broadband for all in its upcoming broadband strategy, including use of the European Structural Funds, the European recovery plan and the use of the digital dividend in order to extend mobile broadband coverage;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Underlines the importance of maintaining Europe as the mobile continent in the world and ensuring that 75% of mobile subscribers are 3G (or beyond) users by 2015; recalls the necessity to accelerate the harmonised deployment of the digital dividend in a non- discriminatory manner and without compromising existing broadcast services;
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Considers that, as Internet access rates are increasing, 50% of EU households should be connected to high-speed networks by 2015; underlines that European policies should aim at promoting massive private investments in order to achieve this objective;
Amendment 145 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on stakeholders to adopt open models for communications network deployment to help boost innovation and drive demand;
Amendment 154 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Recalls that onthe aims of the new electronic communications regulatory framework is progressively to reduce ex ante sector-specific rules as competition in the markets develops and, ultimately, for electronic communications to be governed by competition law onlyare to contribute to the development of the internal market and to promote competition in electronic communications networks and services in order to endorse the interests of European citizens; as these objectives are achieved, regulators should progressively reduce regulation;
Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Points out that one of the assets of the new Digital Agenda for Europe is its strong social dimension; it is in fact a means of improving the living conditions of individuals and society as a whole; calls on the Commission, therefore, to initiate positive promotional measures for sections of the population with little schooling, the elderly, disabled people and all minority groups in order to enable them to master the new communication tools and gain access to all public services;
Amendment 171 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Stresses that all primary and secondary schools must have reliable, quality Internet connections by 2013 and high- speed Internet connections by 2015;
Amendment 173 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Underlines the importance of broadband for European citizens’ health enabling the use of efficient health information technologies, enhancing the quality of care, extending the geographic reach of healthcare to rural insular, mountainous and sparsely populated areas, facilitating in-home care especially for seniors and people with disabilities and reducing unnecessary treatments and costly patient transfers;
Amendment 193 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the Commission to take further action to fight cybercrime and spam and urges all Member States to ratify the Cybercrime Convention, with a view to prosecuting all new types of offence linked to cybercrime, illegal use of personal data, Internet stalking and the sending of unwanted material;
Amendment 200 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Calls on the Commission to assess the legality and effectiveness of measures being imposed in various Member States aimed at limiting the diffusion and exchange of malicious data, such as online games or images that praise violence against most vulnerable people (women and children), terrorism and paedophilia;
Amendment 209 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Insists on safeguarding an open Internet, where citizens and business have the right to access and distribute information or run applications and services of their choice, as provided for in the revised regulatory framework; calls on the Commission, the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) and the National Rregulatory Authorities (NRAs) to monitor market developments closely and enforce the harmonised implementation of the 'net neutrality' provisions, and report to Parliament; considers it important, in this context, to verify the implementation of relevant wholesale measures on which retail choice may depend;
Amendment 228 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the EU institutions to remove the key regulatory obstacles to cross-border communications and online transactions by 2015; calls on the Commission to review the Community acquis affecting the online single market and to propose targeted legislative action on key impediments;
Amendment 237 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Takes the view that, almost a decade after their adoption, the Directives concernstituting the legal framework for the information society's legal framework (i.e. the Data Protection Directive, Electronic Signatures Directive and, Electronic Commerce Directive) appear out of date due toweakened by the increased complexity of the online environment and, the introduction of new technologies and the fact that EU citizens’ data are increasingly processed outside of the EU; believes that, while the legal issues arising fromof some Directives can be resolved through an incremental update, other Directives need a more fundamental revision and that the adoption of an international framework for data protection should be promoted; considers that EU legislation must preserve the 'mere conduit' provision, as a crucial way of enabling net neutrality and competition on the digital market;
Amendment 248 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Emphasises the potential value to citizens and businesses of the digital switchover of public services and, guaranteeing a more effective and personalised provision of services to citizens; calls on Member States to develop national plans for the digital switchover of public services, which should include targets and measures for getting all public services online and accessible to persons with disabilities by 2015;
Amendment 253 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Recalls that Broadband can help protect European citizens by facilitating and promoting public safety information, procedures, disaster response and recovery;
Amendment 278 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
Considers that, alongside consistent deployment of ICT, it is essential to promote ICT research excellence and foster public and private investment in high-risk, collaborative ICT research and innovation; stresses that Europe should be at the cutting edge in the development of Internet technologies and ICT low-carbon applications; proposes that the EU ICT research budget be doubled and that the budget for ICT take-up be multiplied by four in the next Financial Perspectiveapplications and technologies that go beyond the bounds of conventional ICTs (low carbon emissions, high-efficiency and low-consumption hardware using quantum-based (nano)technologies, bearing in mind that EU-funded ICT research has played a vital role in major European industrial developments, such as micro- and nanoelectronics, public health and the European road safety strategy and that highly advanced research has had and will have manufacturing spin-offs;
Amendment 283 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Proposes that the EU ICT research budget be doubled (including by means of the ICT-FET Flagship Initiatives) and that the budget for ICT take-up be multiplied by four in the next financial perspective;
Amendment 291 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Considers that the 2015.eu agenda should aim at mainstreaming ICT for a low-carbon economy; calls for exploitation of ICT technologies to enable a reduction of 1520% in CO2 emissions to be achieved in key sectors by 2020 and calls for promotion of responsible energy consumption, notably through the installation of smart meters in 50% of homes by 2015; points out also that the ICT sector footprint should be reduced by 50% by 2015should aim to exceed the EU’s 2020 targets by 2015 following the development of methodologies in international standards bodies in collaboration with the ICT4EE Forum;
Amendment 295 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Notes that the only means of ensuring the comparability of the data produced in the various Member States and improving energy efficiency is to adopt a common methodology for measuring energy consumption and carbon emissions; points, furthermore, to the need for rapid standardisation of ICTs with a view to ensuring that technologies and services of benefit to EU citizens and businesses are placed online;
Amendment 298 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Emphasises that the great potential of the digital agenda is not only linked to the challenges ahead concerning the ICT sector, but is much broader and directly linked to EU targets for achieving a high- productivity knowledge economy, boosting the European economy's competitiveness through innovating industries, promoting social and territorial cohesion and universal access to public services, enhancing job creation within the European labour market and therefore promoting altogether a new sustainable EU growth model;