Activities of Axel VOSS related to 2011/2025(INI)
Legal basis opinions (0)
Amendments (36)
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 7 a (new)
Citation 7 a (new)
– having regard to the Council of Europe Convention 108 on the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data,
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Invites the Commission to carefully consider the impact on SMEs to ensure they are not disadvantaged; believes as well that the volume of data which is processed should also be taken into consideration independent of the size of a firm;
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas violations of data protection provisions can lead to serious risks for the fundamental rights of individuals and for the values of the Member States,
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas data protection legislation in the EU, the Member States, and beyond has developed a legal tradition that has to be maintained and further elaborated,
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Invites the Commission to resist calls for new imprecise broad principles which maycritically assess if newly introduced principles do really solve genuine problems and do not cause legal uncertainty, skew competition, erect trade barriers, contravene the presumption of innocence and create additional burdens on controllers without quantifiable benefits in resolving genuine problems;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas the EU and the Member States are obliged to take effective measures against all violations of personal rights and are obliged to protect individual privacy and informational self- determination,
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Believes that any certification or seal scheme could be based on a model such as EMAS and must in any event be of ensured integrity and trustworthiness;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas effective control by the data subject requires transparent behaviour of data controllers,
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Recommends that the Commission considers a possibility for behavioural sanctions in case of infringement, instead of as well as introducing a principle of ‘accountability’;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas not all data controllers are online businesses and thus new data protection rules must cover both the online and the offline environment while taking possible differences between them into account,
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Invites the Commission to review existing rules for relevance, need,elaborate and substantiate existing rules as regards clarity, enforceability and powers, competence and enforcement activities of the authorities;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F b (new)
Recital F b (new)
Fb. whereas privacy and security are possible and are both of key importance for citizens, meaning that there is no need to chose between being free or being safe,
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F c (new)
Recital F c (new)
Fc. whereas in this context, the exchange of data is of importance to enable and ensure public security, on a national and international level; whereas adequacy, proportionality, purpose limitation and oversight are preconditions for exchange,
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas continuous violations of data protection lead to a lack of trust by citizens that will weaken the expedient use of the new technologies,
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Stresses that any new legal instrument should apply to all data controllers that handle the data of European citizens, irrespective of the location of that data controller both inside and outside the EU; calls on the Commission to work with international partners, especially India, towards the adoption of data protection rules which meet EU standards and the inclusion of EU standards in all international agreements;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 c (new)
Paragraph 8 c (new)
8c. Stresses that citizens must be able to exercise their data rights free of charge and without postal or other costs; calls on companies to refrain from any attempts to add unneeded barriers to the right to view, amend or delete personal data;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 d (new)
Paragraph 8 d (new)
8d. Reminds the Commission that not all data controllers are internet businesses; calls on the Commission to ensure that new data protection rules can be applied both in the online and offline environment;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 e (new)
Paragraph 8 e (new)
8e. stresses the need for the Member States to give greater powers to national judicial and data protection authorities to sanction companies for breaches in data protection or failure to apply data protection laws;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Underlines the importance of Article 9 of Directive 95/46/EC which obliges Member States to provide for exemptions from data protection rules when personal data are used solely for journalistic purposes or the purpose of artistic or literary expression and in this context underlines the importance of the right to freedom of expression;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Underlines that the technologically neutral approach of Directive 95/46/EC should be maintained as a principle of a new framework;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Emphasises equally the need to have the processing of personal data by institutions and bodies of the European Union, which is governed by Regulation (EC) No 45/2001, included within the scope of the new framework;
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – indent 2
Paragraph 4 – indent 2
– further clarification of the rules on applicable law with a view to delivering the same degree of protection for individuals irrespective of the geographical location of the data controller, including when it comes to enforcement of data protection by authorities or in court;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Takes the view that the revised data protection regime should keep bureaucratic and financial burdens to a minimum and encourages the Commission to conduct impact assessments and carefully evaluate the costs of new measures;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Takes the view that the revised data protection regime should keep bureaucratic and financial burdens to a minimum and provide instruments enabling conglomerates perceived as single entities to act as such rather than as a multitude of separate undertakings;
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Underlines, furthermore, the importance of improving means of exercising the rights of access, rectification, erasure and blocking of data, and of clarifying the ‘right to be forgotten’; while ensuring that full technical and organizational feasibility is developed and in place to allow for the exercise of those rights
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Stresses that citizens must be able to exercise their data rights free of charge and without postal or other costs; calls on companies to refrain from any attempts to add unneeded barriers to the right to view, amend or delete personal data;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Stresses the need for data protection legislation to acknowledge the special need to protect children and minors and underlines that media literacy has to become an element of formal education in order to instruct children and minors on how to act responsibly in the online environment;
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Considers it essential that data controllers seek to ensure compliance with data protection, and, in this connection, welcomes the directions suggested in the Commission communication;
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Recalls that in this context special attention must be paid to data controllers who are subject to professional secrecy obligations and that for those the building of special structures for data protection supervision should be considered;
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)
Paragraph 10 b (new)
10b. Welcomes and supports the considerations of the Commission to introduce a principle of accountability as it is of key importance to ensure that data controllers act upon their responsibility; at the same time calls on the Commission to carefully examine how such a principle could be effectively implemented and assess the consequences thereof;
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Welcomes, in this context, the possibility of making the appointment of company data protection officers mandatory, since the experience of those EU Member States having already appointed a data protection officer shows that this concept has proven to be successful; points out, however, that this aspect must be carefully assessed with regard to small and micro-enterprises;
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Encourages the Commission to introduce a system for mandatory general personal data breach notifications in extending it to other sectors than the telecommunications sector while ensuring that (a) it does not become a routine alert for all sorts of breaches but mainly the ones that can impact negatively on the individual and (b) that all breaches without exception are logged and at the disposal of data protection or other appropriate authorities for inspection and evaluation;
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Sees in the concepts of ‘privacy by design’ and ‘privacy by default’ a strengthening of data protection, and supports examination of possibilities for their concrete application and further development;
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Points out that in case of collection and further transmission of personal data the consent of the data subject should be explicit and not presumed;
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Is in favour of further clarifying, strengthening and harmonising the status and powers of national data protection authorities, including by equipping them with appropriate resources, and of exploring ways to ensure more consistent application of EU data protection rules across the internal market;
Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)