29 Amendments of Nicola DANTI related to 2015/2147(INI)
Amendment 173 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the Communication on ‘A Digital Single Market Strategy for Europe’; considers that a fair and effective Digital Single Market, based on a harmonised set of rules, could foster EU competitiveness, have positive effects on growth and jobs, relaunch the Single Market and make the society more inclusive offering new opportunities to citizens and businesses; believes that the horizontal approach taken in the Communication needs now to be strengthened in its implementation as the digital sector affects every dimension of society and the economy;
Amendment 208 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Believes that, in order to ensure the quality of European Legislation, the European Institutions should adopt and disseminate a "digital first" principle, re- designing all activities around the opportunities and challenges posed by digital technologies;
Amendment 217 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Considers that users’ trust in digital environment and services is vital to innovation and growth in the digital economy and that reinforcing that trust should be at the basis of botha precondition to fully unlock the potential of a Digital Single Market; is strongly convinced that public policy and business models should ensure that trust;
Amendment 260 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses the urgent need for the Commission and Member States to promote a more dynamic economy for innovation to flourish and for companies to scale up, through the development of e- government, a modernised regulatory framework fit for the emergence and scale- up of innovative businesses, and a long term investment strategy in infrastructure, skills, research and innovation; believes that such actions and investments could boost the economic recovery and jobs creation, mostly youth employment, in those regions where is urgently needed, contributing to strengthening the Union's economic, social and territorial cohesion;
Amendment 305 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Is concerned about the different national approaches taken so far by Member States to regulating the internet and the sharing economy; urges the Commission to take action to. Therefore, calls on the Commission to propose a coordinated and homogeneous European legislative framework which will be able to create a fair and competitive market for both consumers and businesses while preserveing the integrity of the single market and the internet as an open and global platform for communication and innovation. This harmonized set of rules shall have the purpose of stimulating a proper environment for innovative European start-ups and SMEs, exploiting all the potentialities offered by new platforms and sharing economy and, at the same time, preventing possible disruptive effects on traditional sectors of the economy;
Amendment 310 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Is concerned about the different national approaches taken to regulating the internet and the sharing economy; urges the Commission to take action to preserve the integrity of the single market and, to effectively protect consumers and workers' rights and to promote the internet as an open and global platform for communication and innovation;
Amendment 335 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Emphasises the need to swiftly adopt a proposal on the accessibility of public bodies' websites; regrets that the Council is not proceeding on this proposal and calls on the Commission to facilitate the finding of a common agreement;
Amendment 338 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Stresses that it is important that the creation of the Digital Single Market should not aggravate the digital divide but rather enhance and create infrastructure and training courses to enable all European citizens to benefit from the new opportunities made available, irrespective of age, gender, income or provenance from remote or peripheral regions;
Amendment 340 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Asks the Commission to address the different tax challenges raised by the digital economy and to closely monitor its continuous evolution to assess the impact on tax systems; in particular, urges the Commission to guarantee an effective level playing field and a fair fiscal treatment among all actors present in the digital market, aligning taxation with the economic activities and guaranteeing that taxes are paid where profits are generated;
Amendment 345 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Believes that Member States and the Commission should actively promote a broad process of reform of the global governance of Internet in order to reach a new, transparent and inclusive model of multi-stakeholder governance, based on the principle of Internet as a unique, open and free network;
Amendment 360 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Calls for measures to promote and encourage, by means of the creation of the Digital Single Market, the development of new models of work which will make it possible to reconcile the requirements of private and working life more effectively;
Amendment 467 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Requests an ‘Active Consumers’ strategy to assess in particular whether consumer switching is facilitated in the online world, and whether action is needed to make consumer switching easier, in order to boost competition in online markets; points further to the need to ensure accessible e-commerce services through the whole value chain, including accessible information, accessible payment mechanisms and customer service;
Amendment 503 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Invites the Commission to extend the concept of "Universal Service" to data connectivity by establishing a minimum band power threshold guaranteed to all European citizens, in line with the objectives of the EU 2020 Agenda;
Amendment 579 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Considers that ambitious actions are needed to improve access to legal digital content, in particular by ending without delay geo- blocking practices and unfair price discrimination based on geographical location;
Amendment 588 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Supports the Commission's plan to address geo-blocking in an effective manner by supplementing the existing e- commerce framework; considers it vital to focus on technological measures and technical practices resulting in unjustified limitations on access to information society services provided across border, on the conclusion of cross-border contracts to buy goods and services, but also on adjacent activities, such as payment and delivery;
Amendment 618 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Further points out the importance of the ongoing competition sector inquiry into the e-commerce sector in order to investigate, inter alia, whether geo-blocking restrictions, such as discrimination on the basis of IP address, postal address or country of issue of credit card as compared, infringe the rules of EU competition law; stresses the importance of increasing consumer and business confidence by introducing changes to the Block Exemption Regulation, most importantly Article 4a and Article 4b, in order to limit undesirable re-routing and territorial restrictions;
Amendment 677 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Highlights that in order to reap the full benefits offered by ICT and to keep up with other international markets, roll- out of high-speed fixed and wireless broadband networks, especially in rural and remote areas, should remain a key priority for Member States, creating a vital social and economic driver in areas which would otherwise face substantial and at times detrimental isolation due to a number of factors with poor provision of physical as well as digital infrastructure playing a key role;
Amendment 689 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Welcomes the upcoming review of the Universal Services Directive, which will provide an opportunity to re-examine the availability of broadband internet access, including in remote areas and consumers' rights related in the context of universal services provision; believes that access to broadband should be classified a service of general interest;
Amendment 690 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 b (new)
Paragraph 19 b (new)
19b. Highlights in this context the need for the Commission to closely cooperate with the Member States, in order to establish performance indicators and guidelines pertaining the quality of the 112 service, paying particular attention to the need for interoperability between emergency services, for multilingualism and for timely and qualitative interventions by emergency services; emphasises that in this context the importance of accessibility to 112 services for all citizens and underlines the necessity of 112 access per SMS or comparable means for people with special needs; further calls on the Commission to promote knowledge of the EU-wide, universal and multilingual 112 system;
Amendment 691 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Stresses that a full revision of the Universal Services Directive is needed to enhance consumer rights in the digital world and to protect consumers from discriminatory behaviour and unfair service blocking;
Amendment 731 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Asks the Commission to guarantee equal treatment, also in fiscal terms, and the same level playing field between telecom operators and over-the-top services in order to assure non- discriminatory access to networks and contents;
Amendment 758 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Believes that, in order to achieve a real Digital Single Market, it is necessary to ensure access for all citizens in Europe, calls therefore to improve the efforts towards the networks development for those areas where sufficient connectivity it is not yet available;
Amendment 798 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Calls for the swift adoption of the Network and Information Security (NIS) Directive, which will bring greater security to, and confidence in, the digital domain and data protection;
Amendment 809 #
23. Urges the Commission to develop an innovation-friendly policy that fosters competition between, ands well as innovation, in, online platforms; considers that the priorities should be transparency, particularly in terms of the functioning of platforms, enabling consumer choice notably through the facilitation of switching between platforms or online services, and by guaranteeing a non- discriminatory access to platforms, and identifying and addressing barriers to the emergence and scale-up of platforms;
Amendment 844 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Asks the Commission to safeguard the openness of the internet, ensuring the application of the principle of Net Neutrality at all levels of the web, ensuring equal access to fixed networks for all service providers and ensuring service neutrality for all services within internet platforms;
Amendment 868 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Appreciates the Commission’s initiative to analyse the role of platforms in the Digital Economy as part of the up- coming Internal Market Sstrategy and urges the Commission to also focus on identifying possible gaps in terms of consumer protection;
Amendment 884 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Encourages the Commission to analyse the need to protect consumers in the sharing economy and, where appropriate and if necessary, to come forward with proposalsStresses that Sharing Economy is reshaping old services and markets in ways not even thinkable just a few years ago; encourages the Commission to analyse the issues related to the sharing economy, to take action to enable citizens and business to take advantage of its opportunities and to protect consumers coming forward with proposals to ensure that Europe will play a role in the future of this sector; furthermore encourages the Commission to ensure the adequacy of the consumer-related legislation framework in the digital sphere, including possible abuses;
Amendment 921 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Considers, in order to ensure trust in digital services, that increased resources from the public and private sector, are requireds well as a much more ambitious level of cooperation among Member States and between them and EU institutions are required in order to strengthen the security and integrity of IT systems and, online networks and the encryption of communication, to improve cyber-attack prevention and to increase knowledge of basic security processes among users of digital services, ensuring thus complete consumers' trust towards digital environment;
Amendment 928 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Considers, in order to ensure trust in digital services, that increased resources from the public and private sector are required to strengthen the security of IT systems and online networks and the encryption of communication, to improve cyber-attack prevention and to increase knowledge of basic security processes among users of digital services; believes in this regard that particular efforts should be put in place in order to ensure full security for consumers in the use of electronic means of payment, through the achievement of a fully integrated and user-friendly EU market for payment services;