30 Amendments of Marc ANGEL related to 2020/2216(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 29 a (new)
Citation 29 a (new)
- having regard to its resolution of 20 January 2021 on strengthening the single market: the future of free movement of services,
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas a dismantling of online and offline rules in the European Single Market and the DSM, respectively, has to be prevented at all costs and whereas the principle “what is illegal offline is illegal online” has to be respected;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Believes the EU needs to become a world leader in digital innovation; considers that the digital single market is about removing unjustified national barriers and having a better organised and common European approach for market integration and harmonisation; believes that further actions are needed at both Member State and EU level to achieve this;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Believes that digitalisation and technologies such as AI will be important forcould potentially achievinge the objectives of the Green Deal and for economic recovery from the COVID-19 crisis; considers that the COVID-19 crisis also offers an opportunity to speed up digitalisation, and that the digital transformation must serve the public interest overall;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Highlights that the Commission should adopt a balanced approach to legislation in order to create a digital single market thatcreate a digital single market that ensures the provision of public services, is competitive, fair, accessible, technologically neutral, innovation- friendly, consumer-friendly, human- centric and trustworthy, and that builds a secure data society and economy and ensures that equal conditions prevail as regards tax payment, meaning in particular that leading internet companies pay their taxes where their profits are generated;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission to follow the ‘one in, one out’ principle in its future legislative proposals, and to address the fragmentation of the digital single market, remove any existing unjustified barriers, and support innovation by reducing red tape;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Asks the Commission to ensure properan ambitious enforcement of both current and any new legislative requirements; believes that enforcement needs to work effectively across borders and across sectors, with greater cooperation between authorities, and with due regard for the expertise and relevant competence of each authority; believes that the Commission should provide a guiding framework to ensure coordination for any new regulatory requirements on AI or related fields;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Notes that there is a significant lack of European venture and seed capital, as well as of private equity funding, when compared to its two biggest competitors; believes that this both prevents the EU from realising the full potential benefits of new technology, and also hinders the EU from influencing the global governance of new and emerging technologies; calls on the Commission and the Member States to propose a comprehensive European approach to increase sources of capital for technological investments in the EU as well as to ensure the availability of venture and seed capital for European companies and start-ups;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Regrets, that the Digital Europe programme as well as the Horizon Europe and Connecting Europe programmes do not dispose over higher budgets; urges the Commission to ensure that these programmes are deployed as soon as possible;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Commission to work to position the EU as leader in the adoption and standardisation process for new technologies ensuring that “AI made in Europe” is based on European values and norms in order to promote not only economic development but especially social welfare; highlights the need to work with industry and also with international partners on setting global standards;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Recalls that we need a data economy that works for the entire EU, as it is a key enabler of digitalisation; believes that it is important for the EU to guarantee a high degree of control over data, with clear and balanced rules on inter alia intellectual property rights (IPR), but considers it essential to maintain openness towards third countries, and that the free flow of non-personal data across borders is important;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Recalls that we need a data economy that works for the entire EU, as it is a key enabler of digitalisation; believes that it is important for the EU to guarantee a high degree of consumers’ control over data, with clear and balanced rules on intellectual property rights (IPR), but considers it essential to maintain openness towards third countries, and that the free flow of non-personal data across borders is important;
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Welcomes the Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act proposed by the Commission; believes that this should contribute to supporting innovation, and removing unjustified and disproportionate barriers and restrictions to the provision of digital services while improving consumer protection;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Recalls that the geo-blocking of online services constitutes a significant barrier to the Single Market, a derogation from the European economic freedoms on which the EU integration is based and an unjustified discrimination between European consumers; notes the Commission’s first short-term review of the Geo-blocking Regulation and urges the Commission to continue its assessment with a pro-consumer approach and to consider proposing follow-up appropriate measures to approach the problems related to copyright-protected content such as audio-visual, music, e-books, and games;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Strongly believes that AI canIs of the view that AI can, if developed adequately, be a force for good for all European citizens, and offer significant benefits and value for the economy, safety, security, education, healthcare, transport and the environment; believes the security, inclusiveness, accessibility and fairness, especially for groups in vulnerable situations,of consumers considered as vulnerable of AI- driven products and services need to be ensured;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Supports the expected Revision of the General Product Safety Directive announced in the Commission’s New Consumer Agenda, underlines that the revision of the Directive must go hand in hand with a revision of the Product Liability Directive in order to adapt both Directives to the digital economy;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Notes that while AI offers great potential, it can also present certainhigh risks due to issues such as bias and opacity;
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Considers that a lack of consumer trust and confidence can holds back the widespread adoption of AI;
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Notes that, while to varying degrees, AI is already subject to current European legislation, andAI raises new, so far unresolved, legal questions that affect consumers and thus calls on the Commission to issue clear guidance on the functioning and synergy between any current applicable legislation and any proposed new measures; considers it important not to over-regulate AI;
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Points out that the use of self- learning algorithms enables businesses to gain a comprehensive insight about consumer’s personal circumstances and behaviour patterns, allowing them to tailor their advertising and contract terms to specific profiles thus exploiting consumer’s willingness to purchase goods and services as well as deploying scoring systems to decide whether a specific consumer can purchase a product or take up a service; thus calls on the Commission to comprehensively regulate AI technologies and to forbid an unfair or abusive use of such systems;
Amendment 144 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Believes the regulatory framework needs to build public trust in AI while allowing companies to develop automated systems without losing the confidence of their customercomprise safeguards and follow a precautionary approach to the development and use of AI and automated decision making systems as well as a more gradual establishment of risks and corresponding legal requirements including a right of information about the use of AI and automated decision making as well as preventive impact assessments in order to allow the banning of highly dangerous technologies; believes also that the regulatory framework should ensure transparency, accountability and provide for clear communication of the relevant requirements to both consumers and regulatory authorities;
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Believes that such a framework should be based on an ethical, human- centric and principle-based approach throughout the design, development and life cycle of AI products based on the preservation of fundamental rights and the principles of transparency, explainability (when relevant), and accountability;
Amendment 158 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Considers that a voluntary labelling scheme for trustworthy AI, based on clear and common guidance drawn up by the Commission, could help imponce clear legal rules and enforcement mechanisms are in place, the role of a trustworthy label could be considered while at the same time it is important to bear in mind that the information asymmetry inherent to algorithmic learning systems, makes the rovle consumer trustof labelling schemes very complex;
Amendment 159 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Considers that a voluntary labelling scheme for trustworthy AI, based on clear and common guidance drawn up by the Commission, could improve transparency of AI-based technology and help improve consumer trust;
Amendment 170 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. cCalls on the Commission and the Member States to makconsider the use of innovative regulatory tools such as ‘regulatory sandboxes’ to help provide a clear path to scale-up for start-ups and small companies, regardless of the risk profile of their productcalls that such tools must be considered by making use of the precautionary principle; believes that these tools canshould help encourageing innovation without any detriment to consumer protection;
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Believes that the use of high-risk AI should follow a precautionary approach and be limited to specific and clearly warranted purposes, in full respect of the applicable law and subject to transparency obligations; underlines that this will be decisive for ensuring safety and security, data and consumer protection, public trust and support for the necessity and proportionality of the deployment of such technologies; calls on the Commission to carefully consider whether there are certain use cases, situations or practices for which specific technical standards, including underlying algorithms, should be adopted; deems necessary, should such technical standards be adopted, that these are regularly reviewed and re-evaluated, given the fast pace of technological development;
Amendment 182 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. Calls on the Member States to encourage and support the establishment of specialisEU-certified review boards for AI products and services in the Member States to assess the potential benefits and potential harm stemming from high-risk, impactful AI- based projects;
Amendment 198 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33
33. Calls on the Commission to update the existing liability framework in order to address new challenges posed by emerging digital technologies such as artificial intelligence and urges the Commission to update inter alia the Product Liability Directive, in particular by redefining the terms ‘product’, ‘damage’ and ‘defect’ and reversing the concept of ‘burden of proof’, and calls on the Commission to introduce a liability regime that is based on the proportion of control the party holds over the risk of the operation taking into account the development and the deployment phase and ensure compensation for non-material damages caused by AI;
Amendment 199 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33 a (new)
Paragraph 33 a (new)
33a. Notes that the development of AI technologies is expected to take diverse forms depending on the economic sector in question or the intended use; asks the Commission to consider the creation of a European Observatory of AI in order to monitor the different development of AI technologies at European and Member States’ level and better inform authorities and policy makers on emerging social, economic and legal issues to be addressed;
Amendment 201 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33 b (new)
Paragraph 33 b (new)
33b. Considers that AI can, if developed and deployed adequately, be a formidable enabling technology but which can nonetheless pose serious challenges to the European environmental objectives set out in the Green Deal; highlights that studies have shown that training a single AI model can emit carbon dioxide in amounts comparable to that of five cars over their lifetimes; calls on the Commission to take into account the environmental footprint of AI technologies, including in their development phase, in order to ensure that the development of AI is in line with our European environmental objectives;