Activities of Eugen JURZYCA related to 2022/2036(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on eGovernment accelerating digital public services that support the functioning of the single market
Amendments (42)
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 26 a (new)
Citation 26 a (new)
— having regards to the OECD study The E-Leaders Handbook on the Governance of Digital Government;
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas furtherefficient digitalisation of public administration increases productivity and resilience of public sector1a, enhances the quality of public services and enables lowers costs and unlocks business potential, especially for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which form the backbone of the single market; _________________ 1a See The E-Leaders Handbook on the Governance of Digital Government, 21 December 2021 https://www.oecd- ilibrary.org/docserver/ac7f2531- en.pdf?expires=1666604558&id=id∾cna me=ocid194994✓sum=2918CC03A7580B A51981657D68E9F7AF
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas public services should be fully meet the needs of its users, should be accessible online, including for persons with disabilities, and benefit from easy-to- understand and easy-to-use tools with high security and privacy standards;
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
B a. whereas citizens expect their interactions with the government to be as fast, efficient and seamless as those with other digital platforms such as the on-line purchasing platforms they use every day, according to the OECD; whereas each Member States should meet this expectation in a transparent and cost- effective way;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas in line with Regulation (EU) 2021/241 on establishing the Recovery and Resilience Facility, each Member States should dedicate 20 % of itsthe Recovery and Resilience Facility allocation to the digital transition; whereas the Commission should properly assess and measure the results and benefits of digitalisation delivered to citizens and businesses;
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas it is estimated that around 42 % of Europeans lack basic digital skills with decreasing trend;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas accessible and interoperable data in public procurement will also help to fight fraud and therefore improve, improve transparency and, procurement performance and cross-border cooperation;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Emphasises that in order to strengthen the single market, it is necessary to carry out a digital transformation that increases the availability of online public services, and open government data; Recalls that eGovernment should improve public service delivery, improve citizen engagement, enhance government openness, and provide a data-driven basis for stronger government accountability; recalls that eGovernment facilitates relationships with citizens, businesses, employees and governments, and calls for the establishment of a European digital identity;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Emphasis that digital transformation should contribute to better law making in all sectors within the single market; mainly considering better data- based assessment of the current and planned regulations, more effective identification of regulatory gaps and unjustified barriers; calls on the Commission and Member States to take advantage of digitalisation and deliver better measurable indicators for the impacts and results of the projects, regulations, and investments;
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Firmly believes that the further development of digital public services can significantly contribute to the reduction of administrative barriers for entrepreneurs, especially micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs); calls on the Member States to involve people outside the public sector in the governance and development process towards a digitally mature and a data-driven public sector; reminds that according to the OECD Recommendation of the Council on Open Government (2017), such stakeholder participation can build government accountability, expand citizens’ empowerment and influence on decisions, increase civic capacity, improve the evidence base for policy making, reduce implementation costs, and tap on wider networks and ecosystems for innovation in policy making and service delivery; calls on Member States to redouble their efforts to further digitalise public services;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Stresses that execution, implementation and monitoring of the strategies and plans need to be addressed as well in order to ensure the effective and efficient delivery of results; underlines to need to share best practices from EU and other developed countries also for this phase; Points out on the example of the New Zealand’s Better Business Cases, a methodology to enable smart investment decisions for public value, which involves the use of a business case to demonstrate that a proposed investment is strategically aligned, represents value for money and is achievable. Using it should allow decision-makers to invest with confidence, reduce the costs and time for developing business cases; calls on the Commission to promptly publish e-government best practices from the Members States and other countries;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Emphasises that broadband internet coverage, especially on islands and in rural areas, is of key importance for the development of eGovernment; calls on the Commission, therefore, to complete the necessary infrastructure for broadband internet access in cooperation with the Member States;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Points out that without improvements to digital skills and digital literacy, the European digital single market cannot be built; invites the Commission, therefore, to robustly implement the Digital Education Action Plan; , also by publishing the best practices in individual member states and other countries and by creating a framework for comparison, monitoring and results evaluation of digital education policies in the EU;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Reminds the efficiency of digital trainings provided by the employers in the form of learning-by-doing; points out that the non-formal learning in the workplace should deliver digital skills tailored to the market needs, therefore such learning should be equivalently recognised, promoted, assessed and measured;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5 b. Points out that EU students are behind the developed countries in terms of education outcomes. Calls on the Member States to measure and improve the students´ performance, particularly in maths and science; reminds that these deficits in the scientific education system risk making it harder for the next generation of Europeans to find well-paid and highly productive employment opportunities;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 c (new)
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5 c. Reminds that the monitoring of the digitalisation, including eGovernment, should not be focused only on the direct deliverables (outputs) but primarily on the immediate effect on direct recipients (results) and long-term changes in society (impact); believes that measuring results and impact requires greater focus and Commission should dedicate sufficient expertise and resources to it given the massive public resources and the priority of this EU objective;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 d (new)
Paragraph 5 d (new)
5 d. Reminds that digitalization should not be the goal in itself, but rather the tool for the results to deliver for citizens; Points out that digitalisation should provide less bureaucracy and quicker, less financially demanding and more efficient public administration and if used in a good way, digitalisation has the potential to enhance the quality of education, health or public administration, but if implemented in a wrong way, it can harm public budgets;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Welcomes the ambitious digital targets set out in the policy programme for 2030 entitled ‘The Road to the Digital Decade’Regrets that targets set out in the Policy Programme for 2030 “The Road to the Digital Decade” do not sufficiently focus on results and impacts for citizens;. Calls for reporting information such as reduction of time spent dealing with public authorities for citizens and businesses, the adoption of only-once principle implemented in public services, life expectancy at birth increase due to adoption of telehealth, telemedicine or connected care and the overall contribution to economic growth, productivity growth and reduction barriers to trade and investments; believes that close cooperation between Member States, and with stakeholders, will be necessary to achieve those targets;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Believes that e-health has untapped potential, and therefore welcomes the Commission’s intention to create a European health data space; emphasises, furthermore, that e-medical records are extremely useful for stimulating cross- border research and providing cross-border healthcare; urges the Commission and Member States to properly measure the results in order to deliver benefits to citizens and create a base for comparisons and best practices identification; believes that such measurable indicators should include targets for decrease in standardised preventable and treatable mortality rate, years of live expectancy at birth or costs of patient care;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Points out that the aim of e-justice is to improve and simplify access to information in the field of justice, as well as to support the digitalisation of cross- border judicial and extrajudicial procedures; notes, however, that during the coronavirus pandemic, consumers and entrepreneurs had limited access to courts; believes therefore that the European e- Justice Strategy and Action Plan 2019- 2023 must be upgraded with plans for further digitalisation and adaptation to possible future extraordinary conditions in order to ensure unhindered access to justice, for example through the eGovernmentmeasurable indicators, results and impact-oriented plans for further digitalisation and targets for resilience and transparent of justice systems;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 2
Subheading 2
The role of eGovernment in stimulatdelivering business, especially SMEs -friendly, effective and innovative environment in the single market
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Underlines the importance of removing remaining barriers in the single market, improvement of the access to finance and set-up of the pro-competition reforms to encourage the entry and growth of innovative companies´; believes that eGovernment could help to speed up this transition; notes also the importance of cross- border online access to information, administrative procedures, and assistance services for EU businesses and consumers;
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Emphasises the role of eGovernment in issuing building permits; believes that significant progress should be made in shortening the deadlines for issuing building permits in each stage of the development, from building permit to final inspection;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14 a. Reminds that unprecedented investments to digitalisation, including eGoverment attract illicit behaviour; Calls on the Commission and the Member States for transparent and free access to public data, contracts, documents, databases, including free access to the business registers, financial statements of companies and beneficial ownership information which helps to fight corruption, including misuse of the EU resources;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Emphasises the important role that GovTech plays in developing eGovernment innovations, highlights its main aspects: citizen-centric public services that are universally accessible, a whole-of-government approach to digital government transformation, and simple, efficient and transparent government systems; encourages Member States to establish GovTech programmes to encourage the development of SMEpromote transparency, innovations and benefits for citizens; welcomes the initiative to develop the European market in GovTech under the Digital Europe Programme, with a strong focus on SMEs and start-ups;
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Considers that full access to public procurement data could significantly improve public probity, promote innovation and support single market objectives, as well as improve transparency and accountability in public spending and increase value for money; regrets the extensive time to adopt final decisions in some Member States resulting in lower effectiveness of the procedures; calls on the Commission, in this respect, to consider including public procurement in the list of ‘high-value datasets’ under Open Data Directive (EU) 2019/1024, while respecting data protection requirements and the confidentiality of commercial secrets; Calls on the Commission to evaluate the efficiency of the public procurement rules as to their time- efficiency and to publish best practices in this regards;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18 a. Notes 12 public procurement indicators under the Single Market Scoreboard; calls on the Commission to regularly identify best practices in order to improve the overall score of the Member States, including in the e- procurement and digital innovations;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Recognises the importance of innovation procurement, and encourages the Member States to integrate it into the general e-procurement framework in order to deliver more effective and efficient spending of EU taxpayers money; calls on the Member States to improve the interoperability of procurement systems, implement advanced technologies (e.g. artificial intelligence and blockchain) and ensure compliance with future legislation;
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Notes that unsuccessful parties in public procurement tenders, including electronic tenders, oftenmight abuse their right to appeal just to prolong the public procurement procedure, which destroys competition in the market and prevents investment; calls on the Commission to consider mechanisms to prevent this type of legal chicanerylays investment; calls on the Commission to consider mechanisms to prevent this type of legal chicanery, including by simplifying processes, streamlining requirements, creating transparent and quantifiable criteria in order to motivate more participants to apply for tenders; reminds of high decision speed for awarding public procurements in some Member States, calls on the Commission to identify and publish best practices in this regard;
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Welcomes the Commission’s initiative to create European data spaces in various sectors, including health, justice and public procurement; considers it crucial for these data spaces to be interoperable so that consumers and entrepreneurs, especially SMEs, can achieve their full potential; points out that the interoperability of data spaces should be the starting point for all future digitalisation strategies; calls on the Commission to submit a legislative proposal bas soon as possible that willed on in-depth evidence- based impact assessment including a proper and understandable cost-benefit analyses, which should ensure the interoperability of data spaces in the European single market;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24 a. Stresses the need to improve assessment of the results, progress and impacts of open data policies; notes that from a government perspective, it remains critical to support investment to open up government data counting on a sound business case, to provide clear value propositions and present the potential benefits of facilitating open data use, and on ex-post assessments tools to show the realisation of such benefits; calls on the Commission to prepare and publish such in-depth assessment of progress and impacts;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 b (new)
Paragraph 24 b (new)
24 b. Highlights that information security and privacy is a key challenge in promoting data sharing; Reminds the Expert Groups report 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 new framework;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 c (new)
Paragraph 24 c (new)
24 c. Calls on the Commission to follow the Expert Group report 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;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 d (new)
Paragraph 24 d (new)
24 d. 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 Commission should analyze efficiency and value for money of pilot projects the Union before financing any complex project related to the digital transformation, including data sharing;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 e (new)
Paragraph 24 e (new)
24 e. 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 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 f (new)
Paragraph 24 f (new)
24 f. Reminds the protection of data ownership and that data-sharing does not imply that data should be shared for free;
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Acknowledges that an analysis is needed of the implementation of the EU eGovernment Action Plan 2016 – 2020 in order to gain insight into its efficiency and results; calls on the Commission to report to Parliament on the implementation of the Plan;
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Emphasises the importance of the continuity of European eGovernment policies; calls on the Commission to propose a new evidence-based long-term action plan for eGovernment to ensure thatwith quantified cost-benefit analysis, indicators and targets delivering results for citizens, ensuring modern public administration is fit for the digital age;
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)
Paragraph 27 a (new)
27 a. Reminds that public administrations have a responsibility towards citizens to exercise care in their use of public spending in all areas, including digitalisation of public services and that maximising the effectiveness and efficiency of expenditure in digitalisation secures the greatest value from spending decisions and helps to avoid waste, errors, fraud and corruption; Stresses that it is therefore necessary to monitor and enhance the principles of good financial governance, plan, publish and monitor national and European spending on digitalisation;.
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)
Paragraph 27 a (new)
27 a. Calls that long-term action plan for eGovernment should overcome a stereotype of a public sector that only engages with citizens when it needs something from them (e.g. “don’t call us, we’ll call you”), the action plan should deliver solutions about improving citizens’ user experience when they are interacting with governments, in line with the OECD policy paper on Open, Useful and Re- usable data (OURdata) Index: 2019;
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 b (new)
Paragraph 27 b (new)
27 b. Acknowledges that as collecting information is in principle more expensive and burdensome than sharing already collected information, new eGovernment strategy should aim to and incorporate the “once-only” principle, which in the context of the public sector means that citizens and businesses supply diverse data only once to a public administration;.
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 d (new)
Paragraph 27 d (new)
27 d. Stresses the need to measure the results of digitalisation also in comparison to the global scale in order to properly assess the progress delivered; calls on the Commission to regularly measure international indices under the eGovernment strategy and identify Unions strengths and weaknesses; considers mainly indicators such as OECD digital government Index, World Bank GovTech Maturity Index and United Nations E- Government Survey;