8 Amendments of Mikuláš PEKSA related to 2021/2107(DEC)
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Notes the response given by Parliament in the adversarial procedure which accepted the Court’s recommendation; notes that in 2019, Parliament launched a project to automate the registration of attendance with biometric technology in the central attendance register and in the parliamentary chambers, and that this technology aimed to eliminate mistakessigned a contract for this project at the end of 2020; stresses that the large-scale processing of biometric data should not become a normality; asks the Bureau to develop an alternative solution that does not involve the processing of biometric data and ensures that only Members entitled to the daily subsistence allowance actually receive it; regrets that due to the COVID- 19 pandemic the p, in line with the European Data Projtect has had some delays; notes that Parliament’s administrion Supervisor’s recommendations, as mandated by its Bureau, signed a contract for this project at the end of 2020, and also that Parliament’s data controller is currently assessing the European Data Protection Supervisor’s recommendations which were received at the end of March 2021such as a system relying on badges or Members’ mobile phones in combination with random and periodic checks by human monitoring;
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 88 a (new)
Paragraph 88 a (new)
88 a. Deeply regrets that some parliamentary committee secretariats require Members to exclusively use proprietary software from Microsoft or Apple; believes that all Members should remain able to use any IT equipment they wish, including open-source technology;
Amendment 173 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 88 b (new)
Paragraph 88 b (new)
88 b. Recalls the added-value of free and open-source software in improving security since they make it possible for Parliament to identify and fix weaknesses, keep control over the data by hosting in its servers and designing solutions according to its own specifications, while being able to avoid vendor lock-in effects;
Amendment 174 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 88 c (new)
Paragraph 88 c (new)
88 c. Recalls its preference for free and open-source software solutions as against proprietary ones when considering new internal applications; asks for situations to be reported to the ICT governing bodies when open source solutions are not chosen;
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 88 d (new)
Paragraph 88 d (new)
88 d. In line with the previous Parliament discharge resolution and in order to significantly increase the confidentiality of its internal communication, asks the relevant services to test the integration and deployment of solutions for instant messaging and virtual meetings that are open source based, hosted in the Parliament's servers, and which enable secure communication such as Matrix and Jitsi;
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 88 e (new)
Paragraph 88 e (new)
88 e. Appreciates that Parliament's services are working to further improve the quality and accessibility of the publicly available data of the institution by adopting open data principles for re- use and redistribution, which were presented to the Bureau working group on ICT Innovation in April 2021; welcomes Parliament’s open data portal initiative, which aims to accommodate publicly available datasets in an easily accessible and user-friendly way, as well as provide data in an interoperable, machine-readable format and thus put into practice the open data principles on technical, legal, practical and social openness;
Amendment 177 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 88 f (new)
Paragraph 88 f (new)
88 f. Welcomes the fact that the Security-General adopted the information security policy in June 2020, identifying the different categories of data and establishing the related conditions that must be observed for their handling and storage, based on a data protection impact assessment and security assessment; notes the Commission’s intension to propose for a regulation covering the information security and aiming at improved harmonisation of treatment among the different institutions, bodies and agencies;
Amendment 198 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 109
Paragraph 109
109. Recalls that, according to Article 38 of Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 1141/20149a, Parliament adopted its report on the application of the regulation on 26 October 202110 ; welcomes the Commission legislative proposal of 25 November 2021 to amend the regulation11 ; _________________welcomes the fact that the Commission clarified the rules regarding transparency and democratic accountability of European political parties; regrets, however, that the Commission did not take into consideration Parliament’s call for more inclusive registration and membership criteria to ensure a fair representation for smaller European political parties; _________________ 9aRegulation (EU, Euratom) No 1141/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2014 on the statute and funding of European political parties and European political foundations (OJ L 317 4.11.2014, p. 1). 10 Report on the application of Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 1141/2014 on the statute and funding of European political parties and European political foundations of 26 October 2021 (2021/2018(INI). 11Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the statute and funding of European political parties and European political foundations (recast) of 25 November 2021, COM(2021)0 734.