9 Amendments of Danuta Maria HÜBNER related to 2020/2216(INI)
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that data access and processing are often indispensable to providing competitive digital services; calls on the Commission to adopt digital trade rules that increase the competitiveness of EU business and facilitate the free transfer of data flows across bordersglobally while respecting EU data protection rules; including by adding ambitious and flexible provisions on cross-border data flows in trade agreements that do not allow for excessive state intervention;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Notes that production and trade depend on digital information being transported, stored and used across borders;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6 b. Highlights the EU data strategy’s role in building its own single market for data through legislation, including the Data Governance Act and the forthcoming Data Act;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6 c. Underlines the fact that competitive access to data is of crucial importance for the development of AI technology, which will be increasingly important in several sectors in society; stresses therefore that researchers and businesses need to be given greater freedom to access and use data for AI development;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 d (new)
Paragraph 6 d (new)
6 d. Draws attention to the legal unpredictability faced by AI technology developers because of inadequate coordination of data protection and ethics issues relating to AI at EU level; asks the Commission therefore to submit guidance for pre-approved data usage procedures, as well as for pseudonymisation and anonymisation, in order to increase legal predictability for AI technology developers; considers that national authorities should follow that EU guidance, when exercising their public authority, as a way of ensuring consistent regulatory compliance and removing obstacles to the functioning of the digital single market;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 e (new)
Paragraph 6 e (new)
6 e. Recognises the ambition to make the EU a world leader in the development and application of AI and underlines the fact that the EU should position itself as a global leader in the development of ethical and legal norms and standards for the use of AI, potentially setting standards for the rest of the world;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 f (new)
Paragraph 6 f (new)
6 f. Notes that SMEs are hardest hit by opaque bureaucracy and excessive regulatory burdens and, accordingly, underlines the fact that legislation needs to be simplified and clarified in order to promote the development and use by them of digital technologies, in particular AI;
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 g (new)
Paragraph 6 g (new)
6 g. Highlights the fact that the size of the single market constitutes the main potential for increased digital competitiveness and innovation in Europe and that therefore any fragmentation and any unwarranted border barriers to data flows, collaborative research and exports of digital goods and services between EU countries must be immediately eliminated so as to ensure that society reaps the full benefits of the EU market;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 h (new)
Paragraph 6 h (new)
6 h. Encourages the Commission to evaluate the possibilities to facilitate data flows with strategically important third countries and strengthen the links to like- minded democracies and market economies in the area of data; especially crucial is the cooperation with the United Kingdom which has an important role in the global digital economy; encourages therefore the Commission to include the UK in the aspirations to create a seamless European single market for data; takes note in this regard of the grace period of 4+ 2 months for data transfers provided for in the Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the EU and the UK, and encourages the Commission to urgently ensure continued data flows between the two partners, with respect for data protection rules as a precondition;