Activities of Syed KAMALL related to 2012/2094(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on a Digital Freedom Strategy in EU Foreign Policy
Amendments (13)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recognises that the Internet has become a public space which has given rise to new methodpart of the public domain where new ways of cross-border trade and innovative market development, as well as social and cultural interaction, are achieved;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Recognises as vital for the development of innovation, growth and job creation to appropriately safeguard intellectual property rights (IPR) for those companies in the EU (European Union) that rely on them to sustain employment in the ICT (information and communications technology) and media sector;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Understands that EU companies lose billions of euros each year as a result of counterfeiting and piracy and deeply regrets the impact of both on rising EU unemployment rates;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Is cUnderstands that Commissioncern Kroes feels dismayed that some citizens seeview the current system of copyright protection as a tool with which to ‘punish and withhold, instead of a tool tooppress, rather than being one that recognises and reward’1;s content creators1: __________________ 1 http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesActi on.do?reference=SPEECH/11/777"Sadly, many see the current system as a tool to punish and withhold, not a tool to recognise and reward."
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Realises that though it is preferable for these matters to be regulated at member state level, article 17 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union clearly stipulates that, "intellectual property shall be protected";
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Also understands, therefore, that the Digital Freedom Strategy in EU Foreign Policy along with the new Common Commercial Policy could be tools that ensure that the intellectual property rights of EU citizens and businesses are protected in the best possible way, and that if combined, could form a basis for implementing ambitious levels of IPR protection in trade and investment agreements to which the EU is a party;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2c. Calls on Member States and the Commission to develop IPR policy to continue to allow those who wish to create their own content and share it without IPR to be allowed to do so;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Is of the opinionRealises that some anti-IPR lobbying groups feel that the European Union should stop negotiating international agreements on IPR in plurilateral and bilwhere IPR-related matteral settingss are at stake until the issues regarding IPR oin the Iinternet and the free use of the Iinternet have been addressed internally addressed and duly resolvdefined;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission and the Council not toto justify its actions thoroughly when concludeing trade agreements with countries where EU ICT companies are required to restrict access to websites access, remove user-generated content or provide personal information in ways that breachcontravene fundamental rights and curtail the freedom to conduct business; calls on the EU to minimise the extra-territorial application of third-country legislation on EU citizens online;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Commission and the Council to include a safeguard mechanism in all future trade agreements, and especially those with an IPR and/or internet chapter, in order to ensure that EU ICT companies are not required by third parties to restrict websites access, remove user-generated content or provide personal information in ways that contravene fundamental rights and freedoms;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Calls on the EU to ensure that the application of third country legislation on EU citizens online fully complies with fundamental rights and freedoms;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Believes that the EU should include in future FTAsconsider the possibility of implementing objective and transparent bilateral safeguards preserving unrestricted access to the open Iinternet and ensuring the free flow of information, in compliance with existing legislation, in future Free Trade Agreements (FTAs);
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Underlines the need for more stringent supply- chain controls and voluntary corporate responsibility schemes in respect of trading in products –the trade of products and services, from equipment to mobile devices – and services, which, that can be used to curtailabuse human rights and curtail digital freedom; regardsasks members states to exercise caution when exporting jamming and interception technology products and services as ‘single use’ items whose export should be subject to ex-ante approvalto countries where citizens are denied the right to free expression.