2 Amendments of Sabine VERHEYEN related to 2017/0228(COD)
Amendment 61 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7 a (new)
Recital 7 a (new)
(7a) This Regulation should explicitly encourage public authorities and bodies governed by public law to take account of the economic and other advantages of outsourcing and thereby promote the free flow of data in the Union. In keeping with the principle of local self-government and their sovereign task of providing basic services, however, and if they have appropriate grounds for so doing, public authorities should be free to decide to continue storing data, such as sensitive data concerning security of supply, locally and to process that data themselves.
Amendment 168 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 1 a (new)
(1a) Public authorities and bodies governed by public law shall be explicitly encouraged to foster and take advantage of the free flow of data in the Union. In keeping with their sovereign task of providing basic services, in individual cases public authorities may decide that there are good reasons to continue storing and processing data exclusively locally.