Activities of Markéta GREGOROVÁ related to 2020/2216(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Digital future of Europe: digital single market and use of AI for European consumers (debate)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on shaping the digital future of Europe: removing barriers to the functioning of the digital single market and improving the use of AI for European consumers
Amendments (12)
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that the European Union needs to take urglong-term oriented steps to close the gap with the US and China to be at the forefront of ensuring a competitive and sustainable data- driven global economy;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Underlines the need to develop infrastructures and technical solutions allowing the deployment of a digital transition consistent with the Paris Agreement and EU climate and environmental objectives and in particular with the 2030 targets and the zero net GHG emissions by 2050; calls thereby for the introduction of an EU digital sustainability index based on an analysis of product life cycles; points out that such index would contribute to the development of the EU toolkit to assess and further deploy Trade and Sustainability Chapters and related commitments and enforcement mechanisms;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1 b. 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; underlines that future or updated trade deals should provide for specific mechanisms related to transfers and protection of such data sets;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1 c. Emphasizes the need to ensure that the digital transition reinforces open technologies, portability and interoperability; points out that updated and new trade deal should cover such objectives;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Strongly supports multilateral solutions for digital trade rules and calls for the plurilateral WTO negotiations on e- commerce to be concluded; regretachieve meaningful progress towards a balanced outcome, underlines that, in the absence of properly designed global rules, EU companies armay be faced with non-tariff barriers in digital trade such as unjustified geo-blocking, data localisation and mandatory technology transfer requirements; supports making the WTO moratorium on electronic transmissions permanentunderlines that electronic data represents a key economic ‘raw material’ or the digital transitions and that it is thereby crucial to provide clarity regarding the definition of electronic transmissions and to ensure the respect of the principle of technological neutrality according to which rules of import and export should remain the same irrespective of the technology;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that data access and processing are often indispensable to providing competitive digital services; calls on the Commission to adopt digital trade rules that increasesupport the competitiveness of EU business and facilitate the free transfer of data flows across borders while respecting EU data protectionguaranteeing the enforcement of EU data protection, consumer protection standards and privacy rules;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Reminds the Commission that any proposal on the digital single market should fully respect the EU’s international obligations, including WTO and bilateral trade agreements; urges the Commission to fully assess the geopolitical and strategic implications of its proposalsPoints out that EU’s international obligations, including WTO and bilateral trade agreements should be interpreted, in consistency with the respect of fundamental rights and EU public policy objectives such as the right to privacy, data and consumer protection;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. WelcomesTakes note of the conclusion of the rules-based Asian Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement, which deepens the economic integration of the region; regrets, however, the lack of a robust sustainable development chapter in the RCEP; believes that the conclusion of the RCEP should encourage the EU to help set global rules for the digital economy; supports in this regard thetakes note of the Commission and High Representative proposal to establishment of an EU-US Trade and Technology Council and the work on a Transatlantic AI Agreement to help facilitate trade and the development of compatible rules and standards in digital trade; reiterates that the European Parliament must be an integral part in the negotiations on the Trade and Technology Council and be granted oversight in order to scrutinize the process as the only directly elected European Institution; urges the Commission to ensure a high level of transparency not only when negotiating trade rules but also when cooperating with third countries;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Underlines the role of digital trade in facilitating access to global value chains for SMEs and, emphasizes that it should also contributinge to women’s economic empowerment.; points out that the use of open source is a path towards open and sustainable digital transformation, both through open source software and open hardware, progressing towards European strategic autonomy in the digital economy;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Believes that practices that undermine consumer and data protection as well as labour rights such as facial recognition algorithms, technology- enabled surveillance, monitoring and control in the workplace, such as prediction and flagging tools, remote monitoring, time-tracking and algorithmic management should be avoided and that any future or updated trade agreement should ban transfers of data flows underpinning such practices;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6 b. Asks the Commission to clarify the impact of the source code clause proposed in the context of current negotiations on electronic commerce at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) on EU digital policies, in particular as regards consumer rights, and meanwhile to withdraw such trade law clause since software source code already enjoys copyright and trade secret protection;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6 c. Urges Commission to transparently assess and ensure consistency of its trade proposals with internal policies especially in the field of regulation and oversight of AI and to ensure that EU policy space is preserved so that present and future regulatory endeavours as regards AI is not restricted through trade rules;