Activities of Eugen JURZYCA related to 2020/2217(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on a European strategy for data
Amendments (25)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 (new)
Paragraph -1 (new)
1. Ensuring the trust (Subtitle 1)
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the Commission’s intention to create a genuine single market for data as it will be the backbone of Europe’s data economy; considers that ensuring trust in digital services is fundamental for the digital single market and should be at the heart of both public policy and business models;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Highlights that information security and privacy is a key challenge in promoting data sharing; reminds the Expert Group report1a findings about the limited trust currently existing between a given private company or civil-society organisation and the public-sector body as it comes to the storage, access and processing of data which further prevents those collaborations from happening; in this respect understands that data providers may not be comfortable to share their data in the absence of the information security and privacy; calls on the Commission to firstly ensure significant improvement of security and privacy during the storage, access and processing of data in the public-sector before introducing a new framework; __________________ 1aTowards a European strategy on business-to-government data sharing for the public interest, Final report prepared by the High-Level Expert Group on Business-to-Government Data Sharing, 2020
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Stresses that any legislative proposals related to data should be based on an in-depth impact assessment to avoid unnecessary administrative or regulatory burden that could hamper the emergence of high-tech unicorns, start-ups and SMEs in Europe in order to unleash their potential at the global scale; invites therefore the European Commission to come forward with comparative analysis of regulatory environment in third countries;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. General principles of the Data strategy proposals (Subtitle 2)
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Calls on the Commission to follow the Expert Group report1a recommendations to carry out studies in order to obtain further empirical evidence, including of the macroeconomic and social benefits of B2G data sharing for the public interest; __________________ 1aTowards a European strategy on business-to-government data sharing for the public interest, Final report prepared by the High-Level Expert Group on Business-to-Government Data Sharing, 2020
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 d (new)
Paragraph 1 d (new)
1d. Stresses that any strategy or proposal from the Commission should be accompanied by documents which inter alia include best practices, cost-benefit analyses, statistics and quantification of the detailed financial burden on the Union budget, the budgets of the Member States and operational costs for businesses, including SMEs;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 e (new)
Paragraph 1 e (new)
1e. Highlights the existing positive examples in B2B and B2G data sharing; calls on the Commission to test its goals using data-sharing pilots and sandboxes; stresses that without proven success, efficiency and value for money of pilot projects, the Union should neither support nor finance any complex project related to the digital transformation, including data sharing;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 f (new)
Paragraph 1 f (new)
1f. Asks the Commission to coherently define how new provisions interact with other legal instruments, such as GDPR, the free flow of non-personal data in the European Union and revised rules on open data and the reuse of public-sector information, since their impact on the single market for data is still unknown;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 g (new)
Paragraph 1 g (new)
1g. Calls on the Commission to promote sharing of all, not only high- quality data, and to introduce data-quality indicators, to measure consistency, timeliness and content quality;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 h (new)
Paragraph 1 h (new)
1h. Personal data spaces (subtitle 3)
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 i (new)
Paragraph 1 i (new)
1i. Asks the Commission to provide an evidence on how many consumers are interested in Personal data spaces;
Amendment 27 #
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’ data could help in developing innovative green solutions and services, including green and digital, that would benefit European consumers and companies; asks the Commission to consider how to support data altruismsharing in full compliance with European legislation;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Reminds that Commission´s Evaluation report on GDPR confirms that the GDPR, together with the Free Flow of Non-Personal Data Regulation ensures the free flow of data within the EU; urges the Commission, to properly describe reasons for the necessity of further legislation on Data spaces in order to avoid unnecessary administrative or regulatory burden;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Single European data space (Subtitle 4)
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Highlights the need toAcknowledges the idea of createing 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; considers that as data owners have the rightful ownership of data assets, being it single piece or set of data elements, business-to-business (B2B) and business- to-government (B2G) data sharing should be, in principle, voluntary, while mandatory access to data should also be envisaged to remedy potentialroven market failures and only in cases when the business is supported from public finances or other form of public support;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Recalls that the European Parliament recommended to the Commission to consider analyses of certain data related measures in recently adopted resolution Digital Services Act: Improving the functioning of the Single Market;
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Reminds the protection of data ownership and that data-sharing does not imply that data should be shared for free;
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Asks the Commission to particularly take into consideration the issues of confidentiality and protection of trade secrets in the context of the Data Economy very carefully;
Amendment 77 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 d (new)
Paragraph 3 d (new)
3d. Calls on the Commission and Member States to promote the data- sharing culture, led by example and share their data in the visible, users friendly, transparent and easily automated process;
Amendment 79 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 e (new)
Paragraph 3 e (new)
3e. Highlights the importance of the central national registers of all G2G and G2B contracts in some Member States; reiterates that user friendly platforms offering the access to all public contracts in one place and data contained in these documents are fundamental not only in order to ensure transparency of public administration but they also serve as a great source of data; stresses that public sector should be an example of efficient and comprehensive data sharing; asks the Commission to prepare a legislative proposal in order to make such practices compulsory in all Member States;
Amendment 82 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 f (new)
Paragraph 3 f (new)
3f. European cloud services (subtitle 5)
Amendment 83 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Underlines the need to improve access to European cloud services and to address interoperability issues, includingperly assess the idea of European cloud services, including cost-benefit analyses to build cloud infrastructure and to create system superstructure on top of existing cloud services including cloud services based outside of the EU territory; considers the need to analyse interoperability issues, the need to create and improve 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 unnecessary transaction costs and to provide high quality standards for sectors and data spaces of high importance for significant societal challenges. ;
Amendment 93 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Welcomes the establishment of a European Cloud Federation, a European network of cloud infrastructures; stresses however that the freedom to opt for a non- European cloud service provider should remain unlimited for European businesses and consumers except for legitimate grounds such as risk to national security;
Amendment 94 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Underlines the need to promote the most cost-effective cloud service solution in the Union regardless of their origin, highlights that both private and public sectors rely mostly on already existing cloud services provided by well- established global private companies in third countries;