Activities of David CORMAND related to 2020/2217(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on a European strategy for data
Amendments (13)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Recital 1 a (new)
Recital 1 a (new)
1a. whereas the Commission communication of 21 October 2020 entitled ‘Open source software strategy 2020-2023’ underlines the need for openness in data and software, insists that the data governance model be built on a decentralised data operating environment, taking advantages of an open data policy and collaboration opportunities in regional clusters of SMEs, research institutions, public administrations and civil society;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Urges the Commission to empower consumers to put them in control of their data and to ensure that the single market for data is grounded in European values and fairness in competition; believes that citizens’industrial data could help in developing innovative green solutions and services that would benefit European consumers and companies; asks the Commission to consider how to support data altruismand incentivise data sharing in full compliance with European legislation;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Welcomes the announcement of a common European data space for smart circular applications and the ambition of the Commission to develop a digital ‘product passport’ to improve traceability and access to information on a product’s origin, durability, composition, reuse, repair, dismantling possibilities and end- of-life handling; calls for these tools to be developed in close cooperation with the industry, national public authorities, civil society and relevant stakeholders;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Calls on the Commission to assess the environmental impact of data sharing and the infrastructures required to ensure a sustainable deployment of the data strategy in line with the Green Deal;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Highlights the need to create a single European data space with the aim of ensuring the free flow of non-personal data across borders and sectors; underlines the principle of the free flow of non-personal data as imperative for a single market for data, providing a level playing field for data sharing between stakeholders and provide adequate level of detailed permissions; considers that business-to- business (B2B) and business-to- government (B2G) data sharing should be voluntaryincentivised, while mandatory access to data shcould also be envisaged to remedy potential data market failures and avoid the market concentration and excesses; calls for incentivising private companies to choose an open data and cooperative model rather than a scarcity based one; insists that the dataspace created as result of Union policies should include safeguards and ban profiling and advertisement uses;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Stresses that, despite the current high carbon footprint of development, deployment and use of artificial intelligence, robotics and related technologies, including automated decisions and machine learning, those technologies can contribute to the reduction of the current environmental footprint of the ICT sector; underlines that these and other properly regulated related technologies should be critical enablers for attaining the goals of the Green Deal, the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement in many different sectors and should boost the impact of policies delivering environmental protection, for example policies concerning waste reduction and environmental degradation; calls for the introduction of an EU digital sustainability index based on an analysis of product life cycles;
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Stresses that an innovative and competitive data economy is built on openness; stresses in this context the need to avoid service provider or technological lock-in for public data collection processes and calls for all Union public procurement processes and funding programmes to include open data access, mandatory interoperability and portability requirements, as well as to promote the use of open-source software and hardware; calls in this context upon the Commission to introduce a ‘European interoperability pledge’;
Amendment 75 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 d (new)
Paragraph 3 d (new)
3d. Stresses that enabling sharing and access to essential and well-defined data sets will be key to fully unlock the potential of the Green Deal; calls on the Commission to assess which datasets are essential for the ecological transition in the context of sustainable products and services, inter alia in product manufacturing, transportation, carbon, energy and biodiversity impact, as well as their end-of life handling; calls on the Commission to consider extending the scope of the high value datasets defined in Directive (EU) 2019/1024 on Open Data to private actors;
Amendment 85 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Underlines the need to improve access to European cloud services and to address interoperability issues, including codes of conduct, certification and standards, in a ‘cloud rulebook’; considers proportionality to be the guiding principle for data quality and interoperability requirements; calls on the Commission to consider promoting existing standards to avoid lock-in and unnecessary transaction costs, allowing users to seamlessly migrate their data via standardised interfaces to other service providers, where comparable cloud services exist, and to provide high quality standards for sectors and data spaces of high importance for significant societal challenges.;
Amendment 95 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Reminds that according to the first evaluation of Directive 96/9/EC on the legal protection of databases, the introduction of a new “sui generis right” has led to a decrease in the production of European produced databases; therefore encourages the Commission to repeal Directive 96/9/EC;
Amendment 98 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Points out that the most efficient way of reducing bias in data based systems is by ensuring that the maximum of non-personal data is available to train them, for which it is necessary to limit any unnecessary barrier to text-and-data mining, and to facilitate cross-border uses; notes in addition that public domain or freely licensed data are often used by AI and machine learning developers when selecting training data, both for ease of access and to avoid potential infringement liability exposure, which creates a particular form of selection bias in training data, which can often lead to other forms of more harmful bias in results; emphasises the need to address remaining uncertainties related to the legal performance of text and data mining that developers may still face;
Amendment 103 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Highlights that the sharing of data should be used to enhance competition; emphasises the need for adequate safeguards against market failures on data markets; suggest that the Commission takes advantage of the review of horizontal and vertical competition guidelines to introduce new tools to counter excessive market concentration, inherent to data markets, including, inter alia ongoing monitoring for at-risk- markets and, where necessary, ex-ante regulation;