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Activities of Christel SCHALDEMOSE related to 2020/2217(INI)

Plenary speeches (1)

European strategy for data – Commission evaluation report on the implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation two years after its application (debate)
2021/03/25
Dossiers: 2020/2217(INI)

Opinions (1)

OPINION on a European strategy for data
2021/01/12
Committee: IMCO
Dossiers: 2020/2217(INI)
Documents: PDF(164 KB) DOC(73 KB)
Authors: [{'name': 'Christel SCHALDEMOSE', 'mepid': 37312}]

Amendments (16)

Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Considers that the European strategy for data must take into account the General Data Protection Regulation while creating a veritable single market for data and ensuring consumer protection in the single market;
2020/11/17
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. Urges the Commission to empower consumers to put them in control of their data and to ensure that the single market for data is grounded in European values and fairness in competition; calls on the Commission to adopt a cautious approach in order to ensure that consumers should always be able to decide who gets access to their personal data and under what circumstances; believes that citizens’ data could help in developing innovative green solutions and services that would benefit European consumers and companies; asks the Commission to consider how to support data altruism in full compliance with European legislation;
2020/11/17
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Underlines that mixed data sets that combine personal and non-personal data should generally be subject to the obligations of data controllers and processors and respect the rights of data subjects established by the General Data Protection Regulation, as per the Commission’s guidance on the Regulation on a framework for the free flow of non-personal data in the European Union;
2020/11/17
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Recalls the importance of security and data protection as key elements for data sharing initiatives and the future EU data spaces; highlights that companies must comply with the GDPR in its entirety, including the principles of data minimisation, and data protection by design and by default; welcomes the Commission’s plan to adopt measures to enhance the portability right under Article 20 of the GDPR in its upcoming Data Act; encourages the Commission to facilitate the finalisation of the negotiations on the ePrivacy Regulation in order to ensure future-proof privacy in electronic communications;
2020/11/17
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Points out to the substantial concentration of large datasets in the hands of big players, to the detriment of SMEs and start ups, which face major obstacles in accessing data; encourages the Commission to address these market imbalances in order to ensure a level playing field in the Single market for data; welcomes the announced revision of the Database Directive, as it can constitute an opportunity in this regard;
2020/11/17
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Supports the Commission establishing European data spaces for trusted and secure non-personal data sharing to ramp up data flows between businesses, academia, relevant stakeholders and the public sector; stresses the importance of open data and knowledge sharing via open technologies for SMEs;
2020/11/17
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 67 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Calls on the Commission to pay particular attention to situations where data is co-generated and makes it difficult to identify to whom the data might refer to, which can pose difficulties as to who is entitled to apply data protection rights;
2020/11/17
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 71 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Encourages the Commission to establish proper mechanisms and the right conditions to make G2B data sharing widely and freely available, in a machine-readable format and through standardised Application Programming Interfaces (APIs); considers that this could include that businesses should only have access to the free data if they pay taxes in EU;
2020/11/17
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 d (new)
3d. Emphasises that market surveillance authorities should have access to all relevant data in order to strengthen their actions and ensure sufficient control of products safety;
2020/11/17
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 80 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 e (new)
3e. Encourages the Commission to assess possible mechanisms and tools to allow and encourage the donation of data by companies, which can be of public interest while respecting existing European legislation;
2020/11/17
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 81 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 f (new)
3f. Highlights the need to reach a common definition of what shall be considered public interest activities, clear criteria to determine when a data donation is in the public interest and safeguards to avoid that data shared in the public interest ends up being exploited for purely commercial purposes;
2020/11/17
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 90 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Underlines the important need to develop a cyber-secure and dynamic cloud ecosystem in Europe in order to deliver a successful and competitive Digital Single Market; encourages the Commission to develop a coherent cloud rulebook that takes into consideration the work of the Working Group on Switching Cloud providers and data porting (SWIPO) and seeks to ensure that customers can choose their cloud services providers as well as retrieve, transfer and move data to other clouds in a free and secure manner;
2020/11/17
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 96 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Considers that data is an essential element and resource of the European economy, which must be harnessed and to which European companies, including SMEs should have access, in compliance with the rules in force regarding data protection;
2020/11/17
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 101 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Suggests developing a technical and legal framework for data sharing to keep data secure and to ensure control over who access data and for what purpose; highlights initiatives such as the Nordic Smart Government which intends to enable SMEs to voluntary share data automatically and in real-time through a decentralised digital ecosystem;
2020/11/17
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 104 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Underlines that when defining standards for sharing data across sectors, the Commission should pay particular attention to the standards applying within the sector in order to ensure a coherent cross-sector data-sharing standard and avoid disadvantaging a sector towards another;
2020/11/17
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 108 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 d (new)
4d. Encourages the Commission to create effective standards in close collaboration with the European standards organisations; considers the use of CEN Workshops Agreement (CSA) in specific areas, such as cloud services, as a way to increase the efficiency of creating harmonised standards; urges the Commission to start the work on developing standards in selected areas such as test methods as soon as possible;
2020/11/17
Committee: IMCO