Activities of Miapetra KUMPULA-NATRI related to 2020/2217(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
European strategy for data – Commission evaluation report on the implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation two years after its application (debate)
Reports (1)
REPORT on a European strategy for data
Amendments (59)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 6 a (new)
Citation 6 a (new)
- having regard to the findings of the Digital Economy and Society Index 2020, published on the 11th of June 2020
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
B a. whereas the EU requires the availability of flexible, scalable, reliable IT architecture, capable of supporting the most innovative applications;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the Union must urgently take action to reap the benefits of data by building an ethically sustainable, human- centric, trustworthy and secure data society that respects human rights and democracy and that aims to build a new open and inclusive knowledge economy, in connection with the education system and the cultural enterprises, that ensures the right to quality education and entrepreneurship, especially among the new generations, especially promoting forms of social innovation and new business models;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
D a. whereas, according to Eurobarometer, the share of European citizens who would like to take a more active role in controlling the use of their personal data, including health, energy consumption and shopping habits (46%) is larger than those who would not like (38%);
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
E a. whereas an adequate infrastructure is needed in the EU, through the use of high-performance hardware and storage to run applications and store data;
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E b (new)
Recital E b (new)
E b. whereas investments in skills in cloud and big data can help companies distant from technology to turn their business; and whereas companies considered to be at the forefront must remain constantly updated on recent technology innovations in order not to lose their competitive advantage;
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E b (new)
Recital E b (new)
E b. whereas the European strategy for data will be instrumental, among other things, to achieve industrial policy objectives and will be beneficial to help European businesses, including SMEs, to successfully face the digital transition;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the Commission communication entitled ‘A European strategy for data’; believes that it is a prerequisite for the viability of European industries, the progress of universities and research centres and nascent AI, and a vital step towards a democratic data society, which will bring better services, growth and jobs;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that the COVID-19 crisis highlights the role of real-time dataand high quality data and information;
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Underlines that despite the high level of protection granted by the GDPR, individuals suffer from the lack of appropriate technical standards and tools empowering the simple exercise of those rights; emphasises that individuals should be supported in enforcing their rights granted by the GDPR with regard to the use of the data they generate;
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes that a well-built data society benefits all, empowers workers instead of lowering their working conditions, and does not lead to inequality or digital gaps and also aims to improve the quality of life of the citizens;
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses that the increasing volume, development, storage and processing of industrial and public data in the Union is a source of growth and innovation that should be tapped; believes that this growth can be enhanced via a level playing field, interoperability and strong multi-player fair market economy;
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses that the Union’s data strategy must support sustainability, the Green Deal and Union’s climate targets; notes that the ability to process and better use data has significant potential for reducing emission of greenhouse gases throughout all sectors; however, points out that exponential data growth and data processing needs to be developed in a way that it does not substantially increase ICT’s carbon footprint;
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses that the Union’s data strategy must support sustainability, the Green Deal and, Union’s climate targets and social inclusion;
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Supports the creation of a data governance framework for common European data spaces, covering interoperability, sharing, access and portability of data, to enhance the flow and reuse of industrial and public data; urges the governance framework to promote the “data for the public good” principle while always protecting the rights of EU citizens;
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Insists that the data governance model be built on a decentralised data operating environment; believes that the EU should develop its own adequate capacity for cloud services and facilitate the emergence of a decentralised, interoperable ecosystem of data governance that enables efficient use of local infrastructures such as edge computing; supports the further uptake of decentralised digital technologies such as blockchain which enables individuals and organisations to manage data flows based on self-determination;
Amendment 154 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Insists that the data governance model be built on a decentralised data operating environment; and supports the creation and emergence of interoperable data ecosystems when moving towards edge;
Amendment 155 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8 a. Believes that data management services and data architectures designed to store, use, re-use and curate data are critical components of the value chain of the European digital economy; stresses that costs related to access and storage of data determine the speed, depth and scale of the adoption of digital infrastructures and products, especially for SMEs and start-ups;
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Urges the Commission to build interoperable sectoral data spaces that follow common guidelines and legal requirements to avoid creating silos and preventing cross-sectoral innovations;
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Encourages the Commission to use data spaces to enhance trust, createadopt common standards and build well-formed application programming interfaces (APIs), and to consider using pre-agreed sandboxes to test innovations, both in public and private sectors;
Amendment 174 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11 a. Believes that the creation of well- formed APIs would provide the best access to data and interoperability within the data spaces, and would also enable automatised and real-time interoperability between different services; thus calls on the Commission to promote well-formed APIs as a future-oriented technological solution, also for improving individuals’ data portability right in GDPR art 20;
Amendment 181 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Welcomes the Commission’s plans for intermediator labelling/certification for creation of interoperable data ecosystems and markets; calls on the Commission to ensure interoperability by developing minimum interoperability criteria between data intermediators, which states the overall direction of interoperable network of data sharing services;
Amendment 187 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Recalls that personal and industrial data are not always separable; urges the Commission to define guidance on and practices in the utilisation of mixed data sets in industrial environments while guaranteeing privacy rules for personal data; calls on the Commission to consider creating a horizontal and cross-cutting personal data space alongside other data spaces to address the challenge of mixed data sets and empower citizens via, for example, trustworthy intermediators such as MyData operators, which store data with the consent of the owners; emphasises the need to further develop digital identities, which will enable individuals to retain ownership of their data and contribute to the establishment of safe and trustworthy data intermediation standards;
Amendment 189 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Recalls that personal and industrial data are not always separable; urges the Commission to define guidance on and practices in the utilisation of mixed data sets in industrial environments while guaranteeing privacy rules for personal data; calls on the Commission to consider creating a horizontal and cross-cutting personal data space alongside other data spaces to address the challenge of mixed data sets and empower citizens via, for example, trustworthy intermediators such as MyData operators, which store data with the consent of the owners; calls for further guidance by the Commission when it comes to the application of Regulation 2016/679 to mixed data sets, to ensure the full respect of data privacy;
Amendment 190 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Recalls that personal and industrial data are not always separable; urges the Commission to define guidance on and practices in the utilisation of mixed data sets in industrial environments while guaranteeing privacy rules for personal data; calls on the Commission to consider creating a legislative framework and a clear definition for horizontal and cross- cutting personal data spaces alongside other data spaces to address the challenge of mixed data sets and empower citizens via, for example, trustworthy intermediators such as MyData operators, which storefacilitate transfers of data with the consent of the owners;
Amendment 200 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Urges the Commission to present a data act to encourage and enable an increasing B2B, B2G, G2B and G2G flow of data in all sectors for exploiting the full potential of unused industrial data ensuring cybersecurity; when personal data is tapped consumer protection and safeguarding personal data must be ensured;
Amendment 206 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Encourages the Commission to facilitate voluntary data sharing schemes; urges the Commission to enact measures that would incentivise businesses to share their data, possibly through a reward system (win-win), with the objective of pooling vast sets of data, for it be equally accessed by EU businesses, in particular the less data rich, facilitating innovation; stresses the need for contracts to set clear obligations and liability for data aggregators when it comes to accessing, storing, sharing and processing data in order to limit the misuse of such data;
Amendment 214 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Notes that there are specific circumstances, such as systematic imbalances in B2B data value chains or specific circumstances of overriding public interest, where access to data should be compulsory e.g. via well-formed APIs; highlights that such imbalances are present in different sectors, such as e- commerce services, transport and tourism, where a small number of digital platforms, often from third countries, accumulate large amounts of sensitive data, while achieving an essential comparative advantage over EU businesses;
Amendment 215 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. NUnderlines that market imbalances resulting from the high concentration of information and provision of data-related services diminish wider data access and use, not only putting SMEs at a disadvantageous position but also increasing risks to competition in adjacent and emerging markets in the digital economy; notes that there are specific circumstances, such as systematic imbalances in B2B data value chains, where access to data should be compulsory e.g. via well-formed APIs;
Amendment 218 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17 a. Notes that concentration of information restricts competition and increases entry barriers to the market; notes that B2B contractual agreements do not guarantee adequate access to data for SMEs, for reasons of asymmetries in negotiation power or expertise;
Amendment 220 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Calls on the Commission to examine actors’ rightsll the rights of actors in society to access data they have been involved in generating; considers that access to co- generated data should be provided in a manner that respects fundamental rights, supports a level playing field and fosters the involvement of the European social partners even in the company level; stresses that such access rights must be made technically possible and granted through standardised interfaces such as well-formed APIs;
Amendment 230 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls for more and better secondary uses of anonymised personal data and use of the developed privacy-enhancing technologies, especially in G2B/G2G exchanges, to boost innovation, research and services;
Amendment 237 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Stresses the need to avoid service provider or technological lock-ins for publicly collected data or for data of general public interest collected by private entities; supports the use of open standards, open source platforms and open, well-formed APIs; calls for public procurement processes and funding programmes to include data access and interoperability requirements;
Amendment 240 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21 a. Calls for improved coordination among Member States to facilitate the cross border flow of data across sectors, through government and stakeholder dialogue, with the objective of establishing a common way of collecting data based on the principles of findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability;
Amendment 242 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21 a. Calls on the Commission to further define in B2G data sharing under which circumstances and conditions the private sector should be obliged to share data with the public sector due to the nature of the data as a common good;
Amendment 248 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22 a. Calls for fair and transparent contractual conditions to be respected for all market players. Users and consumers should also have the right to always know the location of their data. In the event that an EU operator uses cloud services located in non-EU countries, it is important to ensure the application of as high level of legal protection as in EU in the event of disputes, including those relating to intellectual property;
Amendment 249 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22 a. Calls on the Commission to establish an open and interoperable ESG (Environmental, Social & Governance) data register on corporate sustainability and responsibility performance that would improve the comparability and transparency of companies’ sustainability and responsibility actions, and contribute to efficient implementation of the Green Deal goals; calls on the Commission to identify ESG data as high-value data;
Amendment 255 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 b (new)
Paragraph 22 b (new)
22 b. Underlines the importance of defining a framework of rules capable of reconciling a broad and harmonised intellectual property protection with the sharing of data (original, derived and co- generated);
Amendment 264 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Calls on the Commission and the Member States, in order to strengthen the Union’s open technological sovereignty, to work on technologies that facilitate data sharing and analytics, and to invest in capacity building and high-impact projects to promote research, innovation and deployment of digital technologies;
Amendment 270 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Recalls that the success of the Union’s data and AI strategies depends on the wider ICT ecosystem, closing the digital gap, developing the IoT, fibre, 5G, 6G, quantum, edge computing, block chain and high-performance computing; underlines that technological advancement based on data processing and the interconnectedness of digital products and services must be complemented with legally binding ethical standards to mitigate threats to privacy and data protection;
Amendment 276 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24 a. Stresses that storage and transport of data further increases the use of energy if no action is taken; calls on the Commission to take measures to ensure transparency of the CO2 emissions of data storage and sharing, minimal wastage and to promote green data storage techniques; notes that new technological solutions, such as fibre compared to copper and energy efficient programming, produces a much smaller carbon footprint; supports the Commission in looking into the synergy between the district heating and cooling and the data centre sectors with the recovery and use of the waste heat generated when cooling data centre facilities;
Amendment 278 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24 a. Welcomes the Commission infrastructure of High-Performance Computing; believes that it is an important instrument to exchange information and data between scientists and researcher and more broadly private and public actors;
Amendment 290 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25 a. Stresses that cloud infrastructures should be based on the principles of trust, openness, security, interoperability and portability;
Amendment 296 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Calls on the Commission to develop a ‘cloud rule book’ that will inter alia oblige service providers to reveal where data is stored and ensure users have sovereignty over their data; believes that the Cloud rulebook should aim to prevent technological lock ins especially in public procurement; stresses that all cloud operators, whether established or acting in EU, must follow EU rules and their compliance should be monitored;
Amendment 308 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)
Paragraph 27 a (new)
27 a. Highlights that the gradual paradigm shift from physical centres of data storage to data architectures on the cloud and closer to the user, reinforces the need for a strengthened cybersecurity framework; underlines that the uptake and widespread use of products and services fuelled by data depend on cybersecurity standards, which will inspire trust and allow for safer data sharing mechanisms and better protocols to guarantee data protection;
Amendment 313 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 b (new)
Paragraph 27 b (new)
27 b. Stresses that the safe and widespread uptake of both products and services in the data-fuelled consumer- facing IoT and industrial IoT European ecosystems must include trust by design in order to integrate privacy standards and security safeguards in all stages of the design process as well as the data processing protocols of devices and services;
Amendment 320 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Recognises the potential of data access to accelerate scientific research and education programmes; welcomes the Commission’s work in enabling the sharing of data for research and education;
Amendment 325 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Calls on the Commission to promote STEM education, with a specific focus on gender equality, as well as software engineering, ICT talent attraction, employment of women in tech and data literacy skills for all in order to build a European know-how focusing on next-generation and forefront technologies;
Amendment 327 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Calls on the Commission to promote software engineering, ICT talent attraction, foster the involvement and employment of women in tech and data literacy skills for all;
Amendment 329 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Calls for public and private funding for SMEs to fully capitalise on data economy’s potential; and to integrate digital technologies; reminds that only a minority of SMEs use customer relationship management (CRM) systems to analyse commercial information; underlines that the achievement of data equality for small and medium enterprises not only includes access to data, but also entails the skills to carry out analytics and to extract insights from such information;
Amendment 333 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Calls for public and private funding for SMEs and Social economy enterprises to fully capitalise on data economy’s potential;
Amendment 336 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 a (new)
Paragraph 30 a (new)
30 a. Welcomes the Digital Europe Programme and the role of the European Digital Innovation Hubs that will help European businesses, especially those still lagging behind, to keep up with the opportunities of the digital transition;
Amendment 337 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. Calls on social partners to explore the potential of digitalisation, data and AI to increase sustainable productivity, improve the well- being of their workforces and invest in upskilling as well as investing in digital literacy schemes; notes that education and transparency of new data driven technologies is important for the workforce to be able to understand, and be part of, the fair implementation;
Amendment 342 #
31. Calls on social partners to explore the potential of digitalisation, data and AI to increase productivity, improve well- being of the workforce and invest in upskilling while respecting workers’ rights;
Amendment 346 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 a (new)
Paragraph 31 a (new)
31 a. calls on the Commission to promote lifelong science-mathematics education in order to support the development of adequate digital skills and tools that adequately support processes related to artificial intelligence and cybersecurity;
Amendment 347 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 b (new)
Paragraph 31 b (new)
31 b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to also promote lifelong education in school systems and through information campaigns that aims to increase the awareness and responsibility of citizens as protagonists of the data economy society;
Amendment 350 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. Believes that global rules governing the use of data are inadequate; calls on the Commission to work with like-minded third countries and international organisations to agree on new international standards to govern the use of new technologies, such as AI; highlights the need for international rules and standards to foster global cooperation aimed at strengthening data protection and establishing safe and appropriate data transfers;
Amendment 354 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. 32. Believes that global rules governing the use of data are inadequate; calls on the Commission to work with like- minded third countries and in international and multilateral fora to agree on new international ethical and technical standards to govern the use of new technologies, such as AI;