Activities of Eva LICHTENBERGER related to 2013/2063(INI)
Legal basis opinions (0)
Amendments (6)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
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1. Urges the Commission to take action to further harmonise laws across the Member States in order to avoid jurisdictional confusion and fragmentation and to improve thensure transparency ofin the digital single market;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
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2. Calls on the Commission to review otherall EU legislation to address gaps related to cloud computing; calls, in particular, for the revision of the intellectual property rights regime, the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive, the Unfair Contract Terms Directive and the E-Commerce Directive, which are the most relevant pieces of EU legislation that apply to cloud computing, especially with regards to the elements of the acquis which implement and give substance to fundamental rights and basic freedoms of the Union;
Amendment 14 #
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3. Calls on the Commission to establish a clear legal framework in the field of copyright content in the cloud, especially with regard to licensing regulation, especially with regard to the harmonisation of copyright exceptions and limitations; stresses that flexibilities are not only for passive use but should give users and authors broad rights to use copyrighted material without consent from the rights holders;
Amendment 21 #
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6. Calls on the Commission to develop, together with stakeholders, voluntary certification schemesfree and open source software, in particular for providers of security systems, which would help to harmonise practices across cloud providers and which would make clients more aware of what they should expect from cloud service providers;
Amendment 22 #
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7. Stresses that, owing to jurisdiction problems, European consumers are in practice unlikely European consumers need to be able to seek redress from cloud services providers in othernon-EU jurisdictions; calls therefore, on the Commission to provide adequatelegal means for redress in the consumer services area, since there is a strong imbalance of power between consumers and providers of cloud computing; in particular, calls on the Commission to monitor cloud services providers implementing terms of service which permit, or appear to permit, withdrawal or restrictions of services arbitrarily;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
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