5 Amendments of Louis GRECH related to 2012/2030(INI)
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Highlights the need to modernise and facilitate the process of recognition of professional qualifications and extend the scope for automatic recognition beyond the professions currently covered, targeting particularly new professions required for green and digital industries, which facilitate the mobility of highly skilled workers;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Emphasises that privacy and data security are major concerns among consumers and tend to discourage them from buying online; considers it necessary to adapt the existing data protection legislation to new challenges and innovations in the area of present and future technological developments, e.g. cloud computing, e-commerce and social networking websites; emphasises that adopted legislation should lay down more stringent rules with regard to the collection of data, notably by informing the individual why, by whom and for how long his or her data will be collected and used, this to apply both within the online as well as the offline environment;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Welcomes, therefore, the Commission's proposed new data protection regulation, and stresses the need to approve and implement a new regulation on the subject in a form that, while protecting privacy and safeguarding fundamental rights, allows sufficient flexibility to companies to enable them to develop their business without taking on huge costs, while also offering them simplification and reduction of administrative burdens, whilst maintaining strong commitments to adhering to the obligations already in place;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Welcomes the Commission's legislative proposals on Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) and Online Dispute Resolution (ODR), and underlines the importance of their effective adoption; recalls the importance of an effective redress mechanism as a means of ensuring that consumers can pursue their rights, while stressing that citizens should be better informed with details of such a mechanism and other problem-solving tools; this should enhance cross-border purchases of goods and services and work towards the removal of remaining bottle- necks which hamper growth and innovation particularly within the Digital Market and which currently hold the Single Market back from realising its full potential;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Calls on the Member States to strengthen and facilitate the development of information and communications infrastructures since, while all Member States have a national broadband strategy, only a few have a fully fledged operational plan which includes the necessary set targets required to fully realise the flagship initiative for a digital agenda for Europe as laid out in the Europe 2020 strategy; welcomes the new ‘Connecting Europe Facility’ initiative, since it will be crucial for the effective implementation of the Digital Agenda for Europe targets set for 2020, promising broadband access for all;