Activities of Jan Philipp ALBRECHT related to 2016/2145(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the European Cloud Initiative
Amendments (9)
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls on the Commission to develop a European strategy for greater IT independence (a 'digital new deal' including the allocation of adequate resources at national and EU level) in order to boost IT industry in general and cloud computing in particular, and allow European companies to exploit the EU privacy competitive advantage to compete with US and Asiatic IT industries;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on the Commission to set the basis for a European Cloud by encouraging SMEs to offer competitive solutions for data processing and storage in facilities based in Member States;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Calls on the Commission to direct more resources towards boosting European research, development, innovation and training in the field of cloud computing, in particular privacy enhancing technologies and infrastructures, anonymisation and pseudonymisation procedures, cryptology, secure computing, the best possible security solutions including open-source security, and other information society services, and also to promote the internal market in European software, hardware, and encrypted means of communication and communication infrastructures; stresses that no EU funding should be granted to projects having the sole purpose of developing tools for gaining illegal access into IT systems;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5c. Calls to encourage initiatives to further develop data protection and privacy and thus enhance the trustworthiness of European products and services as an EU selling point;
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 d (new)
Paragraph 5 d (new)
5d. Calls on the Member States to make every effort to ensure better cooperation with a view to providing safe cloud computing, especially with regard to espionage and organised crime, in cooperation with the relevant EU bodies and agencies, for the protection of EU citizens and institutions, European companies, EU industry, and IT infrastructure and networks, as well as European research;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 e (new)
Paragraph 5 e (new)
5e. Considers the active involvement of EU stakeholders to be a precondition for an effective exchange of information;
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 f (new)
Paragraph 5 f (new)
5f. Points out that security threats have become more international, diffuse and complex, thereby requiring an enhanced European cooperation;
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 g (new)
Paragraph 5 g (new)
5g. Calls for commercial software and hardware producers to be held responsible for assuring safety and security standards according to the available state of the art technology and to be held liable despite non-liability clauses in users' agreements;
Amendment 67 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 h (new)
Paragraph 5 h (new)
5h. Welcomes the Commission's aim of promoting open science, notably through the initiatives on the European Open Science Cloud and the Open Science Policy Platform; notes that a comprehensive approach to open science is necessary, which encompasses infrastructure, interoperability, the update of legislation to facilitate the re-use of research results, as well as the involvement of the open science community, including citizen scientists;