66 Amendments of David BORRELLI related to 2016/2145(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 9 a (new)
Citation 9 a (new)
- having regard to the European Parliament resolution of 5 May 2010 on a new Digital Agenda for Europe: 2015.eu,
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 17 a (new)
Citation 17 a (new)
- having regard the Commission communication of A NEW SKILLS AGENDA FOR EUROPE, Working together to strengthen human capital, employability and competitiveness COM(2016) 381,
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 17 b (new)
Citation 17 b (new)
- having regard to REGULATION (EU) 2016/679 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation),
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 17 d (new)
Citation 17 d (new)
- having regard to Directive (EU) 2016/1148 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 July 2016 concerning measures for a high common level of security of network and information systems across the Union,
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 17 e (new)
Citation 17 e (new)
- having regard to Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the European Electronic Communications Code, COM(2016) 590 final,
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 17 f (new)
Citation 17 f (new)
- having regard the Commission communication of Online Platforms and the Digital Single Market Opportunities and Challenges for Europe, COM(2016) 288/2,
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 17 h (new)
Citation 17 h (new)
- having regard the Commission communication of ICT Standardisation Priorities for the Digital Single Market COM(2016) 176,
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the current cloud capacity available in the EU is insufficient and data produced by EU research and industry is therefore often processed elsewhere, making EU researchers and innovators move to places outside the EU, where high data and computing capacity is more immediately available;
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas the Commission Communication entitled 'European Cloud Initiative – Building a competitive data and knowledge economy in Europe' recognise the transformative potential of open science and cloud computing as part of Europe's digital economy;
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas data are the raw material of the digital economy and whereas the use of data is essential for the digitization of European science and industry and the development of new technologies and the creation of new jobs;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas the recently adopted General Data Protection Regulation provides strong safeguards for personal data protection and harmonised approach to its implementation should be ensured;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas the European Commission's 2015 Digital Single Market Strategy promised to tackle restrictions on the free movement of data and unjustified restrictions on the location of data for storage or processing;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas the free Linux software would not only produce tens of billions of euros in savings, but also allow the European digital sector to play a leading role, but this is not a priority for the Commissionpublic support to open software has the potential to produce significant savings, to enhance innovation and to reduce dependence-related risks;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
Recital H a (new)
Ha. whereas the deployment and development of cloud services are confronted with challenges given the insufficient availability of necessary high speed infrastructure and networks in Europe;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas the Commission calls any company with a European subsidiary a 'Europeacurrent trends in globalized markets have produced, among other results, an intensive presence throughout the world of local subsidiaries of foreign company';ies, and that erroneoaccordingly the Commission must designation means that it supports foreign companies engaged in lobbying while neglecting European companiesvelop and apply criteria that allow to consider as priority stakeholders those companies who have been born in Europe and keep their major interests in the territory of the Union, insofar their views shall be of key importance to shape policy formation at all stages of the policy cycle;
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)
Recital I a (new)
Ia. whereas the aim to facilitate and support the implementation and long-term sustainability of the research and data infrastructures, including world- class High Performance Computing Centers and other research infrastructure networks, will help respond to grand challenges in science, industry and society due to intensified cooperation and exchange of results;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I b (new)
Recital I b (new)
Ib. whereas the volume of data is growing at unprecedented pace, there will be 16 trillion gigabyte of data by 2020, corresponding to an annual growth rate of 236% in data generation;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I c (new)
Recital I c (new)
Ic. whereas a data driven economy depends on a wider ICT ecosystem to succeed, including IoT for sourcing, high speed broadband networks for transporting and cloud computing for processing data as well as skilled scientists and employees;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Welcomes the European Open Science Cloud as a model for the use of a cloud in the private and public sectors; welcomes the Commission's plan to extend the user base over time to the industry and to governments as fast as possible;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Believes that a digital company may be considered European only if its registered office and its main decisstakeholder should be granted listening priority for the sake of formation of EU policies on condition- taking centres, R & D centres and manufacturing sites are on European terrihat it can be demonstrated, through objective indicatorys and if it is controlled by European capital and subject to the consolidated tax on European territoryvailable to the public, that its main interest centres are located in the Union;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Strongly suggests that such objective indicators take into consideration a comprehensive array of factors, including legal registration, procedures for adoption of strategic decisions, shareholders' composition, fiscal residence, physical location of a majority of its workforce and, as applicable in each case, the main location of research, development, manufacturing and service activities;
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Highlights that SMEs are at the heart of the EU's economy and that more actions are needed to promote global competitiveness of SMEs and Start-ups to set the best possible environment with high quality data, data analytics, secure services and expected cost efficiency for the uptake of new promising technological developments;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Notes that the uptake of cloud services among European SMEs needs to be further encouraged; notes that European Cloud providers need further coordinated support addressing the participation in Digital World, widening trust on user side and raising awareness on the benefits of cloud adoption;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Notes that digital education actions across generations, including cyber skills are critical for cloud development to identify and act on top technical and effectiveness skills gaps to achieve digital goals; welcomes the Commission's proposals within the framework of its recently adopted New Skills Agenda for Europe and underlines the need for proper financial resources;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Believes that Cloud start-ups are emerging with niche solutions to make cloud computing faster, easier, more reliable, flexible and secure;
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 e (new)
Paragraph 4 e (new)
4e. Notes that involvement of Academia, Research and Universities and all stakeholders should be encouraged in order to maintain and support integrated scientific data infrastructures and High Performance Computing;
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 g (new)
Paragraph 4 g (new)
4g. Calls on the Commission and Member States to ensure that there is a focus on future-oriented European growth in order to build a competitive cloud industry in Europe; emphasises the importance of ensuring that the market demand for cloud solutions continues to increase and cloud adoption is encouraged in vertical industries like finance, taxation and social security, manufacturing, banking, health, media and entertainment, agriculture;
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 i (new)
Paragraph 4 i (new)
4i. Stresses that solutions under the European Cloud Initiative should be developed with due regard for the fundamental rights enshrined in the Charter of Fundamental Rights, in particular the rights of data protection, privacy, liberty and security;
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 j (new)
Paragraph 4 j (new)
4j. Notes that the data economy is still in its very early stages, business models are still in development and those that exist are already being disrupted and evolving. Calls on the Commission to ensure that any legislation in this field will be in line with the technology-neutral 'innovation principle' and will not impose serious hurdles to innovation, the digitization of industry, and the development of new technologies such as IoT and AI in Europe.
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 k (new)
Paragraph 4 k (new)
4k. Calls on the Commission to work with Member States and all stakeholders to participate in identifying the necessary implementing actions in order to maximise the potential offered by the European Cloud Initiative; Believes that Open Innovation and Open Science involve far more actors in the innovation process, from researchers, to entrepreneurs, to users, to governments and civil society;
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Recalls that data are the raw material, including metadata, are both a key material and an essential asset of the digital economy, and that they play a fundamental role in the added value chain; stresses that storing or processing data outside Europe is tantamount to killing off Europe's digital economy; demands that the storage, exploitation and use optimisation of data be carried out by European companies on the territory of the Unionthe strategic implications of transmitting, storing or processing data, including metadata, outside the territory of the Union must be carefully assessed, with the help of a risk assessment methodology developed with the contribution of all major EU digital stakeholders;
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Stresses that the Open Science Cloud Initiative should lead to a trusted cloud for all: scientists, business and public services;
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Proposes that the governance of ORCID and DOI be under European jurisdiction with regard to European scientists and their workCalls on the Commission to study and propose for their adoption an array of legal acts that guarantee that data- sharing mechanisms regarding the work of EU research institutions and their scientists stay safely under the Union's jurisdiction;
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Notes that there is a necessity to foster an open, trusted collaborative platform for the management, analysis, sharing, reuse and preservation of research data on which innovative services can be developed and delivered under the terms and certain conditions;
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Reminds that any agreement for sharing scientific data with third countries must be designed and implemented under the strict application of the principle of reciprocity, and must include requirements for equally shared governance;
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Asks the Commission to ensure that all scientific research and data produced by the Horizon 2020 Programme is open by default, and asks Member States to adapt their national research programmes accordingly;
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 c (new)
Paragraph 7 c (new)
7c. Calls on the Commission and Member States in cooperation with stakeholders to establish a Roadmap to give clear timescales and a set for implementation of the European Open Science Cloud as fast as possible;
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 c (new)
Paragraph 8 c (new)
8c. Approves the Commission's ambition to have the infrastructure and conditions to handle large amounts of data, operated by services, which use real time data from sensors or applications that link data from different sources; Notes that the European Cloud Initiative aims to ensure better and more harmonised work on infrastructure development;
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 d (new)
Paragraph 8 d (new)
8d. Supports further development of GEANT network for it to become the most advanced international network and maintain Europe's leadership in research;
Amendment 152 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 e (new)
Paragraph 8 e (new)
8e. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to coordinate with stakeholders to reduce the fragmentation of digital infrastructures by setting a roadmap for actions and a robust governance structure involving funders, procurers and users and stresses the need to promote Open Science principles for data management and sharing in compliance with innovation incentives, privacy and intellectual property in the digital age;
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Notes that the European economy is increasingly relying on the power of supercomputers to invent innovative solutions, reduce cost and decrease time to market for products and services; Support the Commission efforts to create an exascale supercomputer systems based on European hardware technology;
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 d (new)
Paragraph 9 d (new)
9d. Welcomes the Commission's proposal, in line with the Quantum Manifesto to launch a €1 billion Flagship-scale Initiative in Quantum Technology;
Amendment 171 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Believes that the development of clear standards for cloud interoperability, data portability and service level agreements will ensure certainty and transparency for both cloud providers and end-users;
Amendment 173 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)
Paragraph 10 b (new)
10b. Stresses that reliability, security and protection of personal data is needed for consumer confidence, trust as a basis for healthy competitiveness;
Amendment 174 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 c (new)
Paragraph 10 c (new)
10c. Notes that industry should play a key role in developing widely accepted standards fit for the digital age, such standards will give confidence to cloud providers to keep innovation and to users to further adopt cloud services at the European level;
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 d (new)
Paragraph 10 d (new)
10d. Calls on the Commission to take the lead in promoting intersectoral, cross- lingual and cross-border interoperability and cloud standards and supporting privacy-friendly, reliable, secure and energy-efficient cloud services as an integral part of common strategy focusing on maximizing the opportunities to develop standards that have the capacity of becoming worldwide standards;
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Stresses the existing potential that quantum technologies have for computers and encryption keysboth for general computation and, specifically, for advanced cryptography;
Amendment 182 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Calls for measures to preserve a high-quality standardisation system that can attract the best technology contributions; asks the Commission to adopt policies that remove excessive barriers in innovative sectors, to incentivise investments in research and development and European standardization;
Amendment 184 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 b (new)
Paragraph 11 b (new)
11b. Urge the Commission to maximise its efforts to avoid the possibility of vendor lock-in on the digital market from the beginning, especially in emerging areas such as the European Cloud initiative;
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 c (new)
Paragraph 11 c (new)
11c. Acknowledges the importance of interoperability and standards in boosting competitiveness in the ICT sector, asks the Commission to identify gaps in standards in the European Science Cloud, including as regards SMEs, Startups and key European sectors; supports the development of market-driven, voluntary, technology-neutral, transparent, globally compatible and market-relevant standards;
Amendment 186 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 d (new)
Paragraph 11 d (new)
11d. Considers that the 'ISA2' programme offers an opportunity to develop interoperability standards for Big Data management within public administrations and in their dealings with businesses and citizens;
Amendment 192 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. BelievStresses that the failure to control the European digital industry poses a threat to civil liberties, respdigital activities must be regulated ensuring strict respect of fundamental rights, with a particular attention for privacy, insofar privacy functions, as leading experts in the sect for privacy and the current and future employmenthave remarked, as the true immune system of a living democracy;
Amendment 197 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Notes that data has become essential for decision making at the local, national, and global level; notes that sharing data also has important benefits for local and regional authorities and that opening up government data enhances democracy and provides new business opportunities;
Amendment 199 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Asks Member States and the Union to encourage and fund the writinglarge-scale development of secure free software, with Linux, firstly withina first priority towards public administrations and schoolst all levels and academy, and then intowards businesses and for the general public; calls the Commission to develop guidelines and criteria for orienting public procurement in such direction, wherever the Member States consider fit to do so;
Amendment 203 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Considers it essential to encourage synergies between Europeanamong EU digital stakeholders at all levels, as a key ingredient of an ambitious industrial strategy in the digital sector, and especially among hardware manufacturers, software developers and European cloud computing providers;
Amendment 204 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Stresses that the EC should liaise closely and as early as possible with industry partners especially SMEs and Startups in order to guarantee that business and industry requirements are adequately addressed and integrated in the later stage of the initiative;
Amendment 207 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Highlights the importance ofat long-term EU security of supply in critical raw materials such as rare earths in order to keep the construction of electronic components in Europeraw materials that are critical for the construction of electronic components, such as rare earths, must be achieved through a combination of the best practices of the circular economy, including design-to-recycle, but not limited to it, and fair trade agreements with producing countries;
Amendment 209 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Encourages public administrations to consider safe, reliable and secure cloud services by providing a clear legal framework and further working to develop cloud-specific certifications schemes. Notes that business and consumers need to feel confident in adopting new technologies;
Amendment 219 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Proposes the creation of European computer assembly chains, with robotics enabling them to be competitiveUnderlines that manufacturing excellence consistently delivered at unprecedented levels, including the extensive use of robotics, additive manufacturing and automation, shall be necessary for the successful implementation of EU digital industrial projects;
Amendment 224 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Demands a European preference for reciprocalStresses that trade policy is an essential component of international relations; reminds that digital industry, due to a variety of reasons, and very especially to its high value added, and its richness in continuous innovation, is a clear candidate for long-term intensive trade;
Amendment 225 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Asks, in such a trade relations context, to guarantee the commitment of the Union to its major values of peace, friendship and cooperation among countries, as expressed in the principle of reciprocity, among others, and to ensure that this principle is solidly embedded into all agreements in the field;
Amendment 237 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Calls for a Copernican revolution in the digital economic model: 'all data is the property of the provider' and anyone using these data should remunerate the data provider, with class actions being filed against any company using data without remunerationin-depth review of the value-sharing models, encompassing all parties, that need to be fairly established in order to ensure stability of any digital business model; reminds that individual data providers must claim and keep collectively a fair share of the value being created;
Amendment 238 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Believes that the Initiative should preserve the balance between rights of researchers, rights holders and other actors in the scientific sphere with fully respect the rights of authors and publishers, while at the same time supporting innovative research in Europe;
Amendment 239 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Stresses that business models based on remuneration through data, often in the absence of direct monetary remuneration, must be much better studied and regulated, providing adequate legal coverage for all parties engaged in them;
Amendment 243 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Proposes that Member States impose dissuasive fines on companies illegally using data, amounting Reminds that the speedy development of a carefully thought legal framework, having data protection, privacy and fundamental rights at its core, can become a distinctive, high-value competitive factor four to ten times their turnover, thereby making Europe a safe haven for data storage in the worldr EU providers of data storage, in comparisons with competitors less attentive to this dimension; accordingly, underlines that privacy and data protection requirements should never be contemplated by the IT industry as a burden;
Amendment 244 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Believes that research data can be shared within the EU Open Science Cloud without prejudice to copyright owned by researchers or research institutions, by establishing licensing models where necessary; believes that best practices in this regard are being established within the Horizon 2020 Open Research Data pilot;