Activities of Malcolm HARBOUR related to 2011/2025(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on a comprehensive approach on personal data protection in the European Union
Amendments (10)
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls foron the Commission to propose harmonised legislation on data protection dimension ofin the Sinternal market to be enhanced through uniformisation of Member States' legislation and increased legal certainty, with excessive restrigle Market, by analogy to the telecom framework rules, in order to deliver increased legal certainty and to ensure consistent levels of privacy protections and further organisational costs being avoided, and administrative burdens reducedcross the EU; considers that this will boost the digital single market, reduce the scope for excessive restrictions and administrative burdens as well as undue costs for businesses, especially for innovative SMEs;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for a revision and simplification of the current personal data breach notification system with a view to making data processing by all data controllers less cumbersome and expensiveWelcomes the Commission's proposals for a data breach notification system in the e-privacy directive, which should furthermore be applied in a consistent manner in all areas where data protection is required while ensuring that data processing requirements do not place excessive burdens on data controllers;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Emphasises the importance, for the holders of personal data, to appoint a data protection controller with a clearly identified role; considers furthermore that the established practice of a data protection controller in all organisations that use personal data should be strengthened; considers that organisations operating in the Single Market should be able to appoint a single data protection controller for the EU with a single website in all official languages;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Underlines that the procedures on how to access personal data must be clearly and immediately available to citizens in all Member States, supported by a network of contact points, and made available online; calls in particular for the simplification of enforcement provisions;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on the Commission to examine, in consultation with CEN, the possibility of developing service standards for the management of personal data and for the development of related information management tools, with due regard to the principle of privacy by design; considers that such design standards would promote best practice in the development of data management systems and improve, in particular, the security features of database management and warehousing applications; stresses however that any proposals should be technology neutral and innovation friendly;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Calls on the Commission to review with CEN, European hardware storage standards with due regard to the principle of privacy by design, and to encourage the development of manufacturing standards allowing for the definitive deletion of data stored on hardware which is no longer used for personal data storage or otherwise discarded; considers furthermore that such design standards would promote best practice in manufacturing; stresses however that any proposals should be technology neutral and innovation friendly;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5c. Calls for an enhanced role for the Article 29 Working Party to formalise its role in implementing standard data protection rules and to assert its independence from the European Commission;
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Welcomes the Commission's stance on reciprocity in levels of protection regarding data subjects whose data are exported to, or held in, third countries; calls however on the Commission to take decisive steps towards enhanced regulatory cooperation with third countries in view of clarifying the applicable rules and the convergence of EU and third country data protection legislation; calls on the Commission to bring this forwards as a priority agenda item in the re-launched Transatlantic Economic Council;
Amendment 73 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Calls for the development of easier, more efficient methods to allow international transfers of personal data, while assuring adequate levels of data protection and privacy of individuals;