4 Amendments of Dimitar STOYANOV related to 2013/2063(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Urges the Commission to take action to further harmonise laws across the Member States in order to avoid jurisdictional confusion and fragmentation and to improve the transparency of the digital single market, in particular by eliminating gaps and weaknesses in applicable EU legislation, notably the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive and the Unfair Contract Terms Directive in terms of consumer protection, and the E- Commerce Directive when it comes to exemptions from private copy levies;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission also to review other EU legislation to address gaps related to cloud computing; calls, in particular, for the revision of the intellectual property rights regime, the Copyright Directive, the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive, the Unfair Contract Terms Directive and the E-Commerce Directive, which are the most relevant pieces of EU legislation that apply to cloud computing, in order to remedy the fact that the necessary standardisation in the single European market is lacking, owing to the diversity of the corresponding legislation across the Union, and to set out clear rules on intellectual property rights (IPR);
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission to work together with the Member States to develop European best practice models for contracts, or ‘model contracts’, that will ensure complete transparency by providing all terms and conditions in a very clear format, with these being valid throughout the EU, given that both high security of services and legal certainty for cloud services users and providers are important to further enhance the evolution of cloud services, although this should not prevent the market from developing cloud services in response to the needs of consumers, businesses or governments;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5а. Highlights the importance of cloud computing for SMEs – particularly those established in countries facing economic difficulties or in remote or outermost areas – as a means of combating their isolation and making them more competitive, as well as for public authorities, enabling them to make their services more efficient and flexible by reducing expenditure on information technology infrastructure;