9 Amendments of Pilar del CASTILLO VERA related to 2009/2225(INI)
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
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2. Stresses the importance of continuing efforts towards ubiquitous and high-speed access for all citizens and consumers, through the promotion of access to fixed and mobile Internet and the deployment of next-generation infrastructure; emphasises that this requires policies that promote competition and investment delivering access on fair terms and at competitive prices for all communities, irrespective of location, thereby ensuring that no European citizen faces exclusion;
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
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4. Underlines the importance of maintaining Europe as the mobile continent in the world and ensuring that 75% of mobile subscribers are 3G (or beyomobile broadband) users by 2015; recalls the necessity to accelerate the harmonised deployment of the digital dividend without compromising existing and enhanced broadcast services; insists that the allocation of the digital dividend should support the extension of coverage and quality of broadband in a non-discriminatory manner;
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
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5. Considers that, as Internet access rates are increasing, 50% of EU households should be connected to very high-speed networks by 2015;
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution
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6. Calls on Member States to transpose the telecoms package before the established deadline, in particular the new provisions on Next Generation Access (NGA) networks and spectrum and to fully enforce it, which provides for a stable regulatory environment tohat stimulates investment while safeguardingand promotes competition;
Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution
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Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Considers that it is necessary to increase the effectiveness of regulatory coordination by ensuring that BEREC is fully operational as soon as possible;
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution
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Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution
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9. Stresses that all primary and secondary schools must have high-speed Internet connections and ICT training, and that e- learning should become an integral part of lifelong learning activities by 2015;
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution
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Paragraph 10
10. Proposes the launch of a 'Digital literacy action plan' at EU and Member State levels, notably comprising: specific digital literacy training opportunities for groups at risk of exclusion; incentives for private-sector initiatives to provide digital skills training to all employees; a European-wide 'Be smart online!' initiative to make all students, including those engaged in life-long learning and professional training, familiar with the safe use of ICT and online services; and a common EU-level ICT certification scheme;
Amendment 259 #
Motion for a resolution
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Paragraph 19
19. Emphasises the need to develop a 'Fifth Freedom' to enable the free circulation of content and knowledge and to achieve, by 2015, a simple, consumer- friendly legal framework for accessing digital content in Europe, which would give certainty to consumers and ensure robust solutions that are balanced and attractive for users and rights-holders; urges the EU to accelerate the debate on copyright and to establish an EU copyright title under Article 118 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU by 2013xplore the possibilities offered by the Treaty of Lisbon to establish measures for the creation of European intellectual property rights in order to provide uniform protection of intellectual property rights throughout the Union;