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Activities of Marie-Christine ARNAUTU related to 2015/2147(INI)

Plenary speeches (1)

Towards a Digital Single Market Act (A8-0371/2015 - Kaja Kallas, Evelyne Gebhardt) FR
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2015/2147(INI)

Amendments (5)

Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
1. WelcomNotes the Communication on ‘A Digital Single Market Strategy for Europe’; regrets that it is not entitled ‘Strategy for better digital cooperation between the nations of Europe’; emphasises that the implementation of digitisation and the enhanced deployment of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) will be key tools to make the Europeanmust first and foremost take into account users’ expectations by making transport systems safer, more efficient and productive, and as a result daily transport and logistics will be more fluid, safe, resource-wise and sustainable, more fluid and more economical;
2015/09/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that the digitisation of the transport sector provides Europethe Member States with new business opportunities and jobs; points to strong growth in the ITS sector, with an expected global annual growth rate of 16.4 % for the period 2014 - 2019;
2015/09/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Urges the Commissionrelevant bodies of the Member States to assess the need to modernise EUtheir regulations and adapt them to the digital age; asks the Commissionleaves it up to the Member States to harmonise the regulatory framework of different transport modes in order to promote truehealthy competition between modes and to encourage new innovations and services for mobility and logistics, including those based on the sharing economy, while creating a level playing field for existing market actors and new market entrants in terms of high European standards regarding safety, working conditions, fair taxation, consumer protection and the prevention of harmful environmental effects;
2015/09/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses that confidence and solid data protection are prerequisites for creating any inter-state cooperation in the Ddigital Single Marketfield; emphasises, in this context, the need to protect individual freedoms and ensure high standards as regards data capacity, accessibility and security by providing a comprehensive, reliable and interoperable data infrastructure and by ensuring the security and credibility of data collection, processing, usage and storage;
2015/09/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 90 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on the Member States to look closely at the growing digitisation of Western societies and the risks of alienation that this process could entail; expresses its wish for constructive criticism on this issue to be taken into account by the relevant bodies; recalls the saying of the French sociologist Jacques Ellul: ‘… True technique* will know how to maintain the illusion of liberty, choice, and individuality in a way that satisfies man's needs for liberty, choice and individuality; but these will have been carefully calculated so that they are merely an illusion integrated into the mathematical reality’; *Translator’s note: See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Ell ul#On_technique .
2015/09/23
Committee: TRAN