11 Amendments of Esther DE LANGE related to 2016/2276(INI)
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
B a. whereas a data driven economy depends on a wider ICT ecosystem to succeed, including high-educated experts as well as skilled people;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
F a. whereas a high and consistent level of consumer protection and satisfaction across all digital services necessarily entails choice, flexibility, information and trust in a secure online environment with high-level of data protection;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Believes that better regulation in the digital age requires principle-based legislation coupled with complementary non-regulatory actions to effectively adapt to new technologies and new business models to prevent fragmentation of the single market;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Considers that EU legislation should be guided by the concept of "as little as possible and as much as necessary", which means necessity of rules fitting for digital age and open and technologically neutral enough to accommodate future developments;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Appreciates the Commission's initiative to analyse the role of platforms in the Digital Economy, ensuring a comprehensive and similar approach to framework across the digital market; considers that "a one size fits all" solution may have a chilling effect on innovation and put European companies at a competitive disadvantage in the global economy;
Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Recognises the benefits that online platforms offer for SMEs and start-ups; notes that online platforms allow SMEsboth to access global markets without excessive investments in costly digital infrastructure;
Amendment 188 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16 a. Notes that online health platforms can support innovative activities by creating and transferring relevant knowledge from engaged healthcare consumers towards innovating healthcare environment; stresses that a new innovation platforms will co-design and co-create the next generation of innovative healthcare products so that they precisely match current unmet needs;
Amendment 365 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33
33. Calls on the Commission to evaluate platforms’ review systems and to put an end to certain practices, such as fake reviews and the deletion of negative reviews in order to make platforms comply with existing obligations; in this respect, as part of the REFIT check of EU consumer and marketing law in 2017, calls on the Commission to ensure that online platforms' review systems are covered by the requirements of the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive relative to false or misleading information;
Amendment 370 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33 a (new)
Paragraph 33 a (new)
33 a. Welcomes the Guidance on the implementation/application of directive 2005/29/EC on Unfair Commercial Practices which recalls that platform should avoid creating the impression that reviews posted through it originate from real users, when it cannot adequately ensure this; calls, therefore, on the Commission and the Member States to encourage the voluntary adoption of certification schemes provided by independent accredited certifiers to guarantee that platforms' review systems are reliable;
Amendment 405 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37 a (new)
Paragraph 37 a (new)
37 a. Considers that users' trust in digital services is vital to innovation and growth in the digital economy and that reinforcing that trust, i.e. through data protection and security standards, should be at the basis of both public policy and business models;
Amendment 414 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38 a (new)
Paragraph 38 a (new)
38 a. Considers that the development and improvement of digital skills should take place through major investment in education with a double objective: to form a highly skilled workforce able to retain and create technological jobs and to terminate the digital illiteracy, source of digital divide and exclusion;