22 Amendments of Philippe LAMBERTS related to 2009/2225(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 a (new)
Citation 5 a (new)
- having regard to its resolution of 3 March 2009 on pre-commercial procurement: driving innovation to ensure sustainable high quality public services in Europe1, 1 OJ C 100, 30.4.2009, p. 6.
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas the lack of progress in creating, disseminating and using ICT is responsible for a delay in growth and productivity, and whereas young businesses with high growth potential working in the area of ICT innovation are hard pressed to establish a sustainable market position,
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas, on the one hand, despite the target of allocating 3% of GDP to research, the European Union is stagnating at 1.9%, with the efforts of the public authorities amounting to 0.6%, while, on the other, investment in ICT accounts for 30% of the total research effort,
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E b (new)
Recital E b (new)
Eb. whereas the United States spends USD 50 billion per annum on the award of research contracts, an amount which is twenty times greater than in the European Union and which represents about half of the overall investment differential between the United States and Europe; whereas pre-commercial procurement in the area of ICT represents less than EUR 1 billion in the EU, as opposed to over 10 billion in the United States,
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
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 deploycompetition and investment ofin next-generation infrastructure and services; emphasises that this requires policies that promotesupport choice and diversity in high speed services delivering access on fair terms and at competitive prices for all communities, irrespective of location, thereby ensuring that no European citizen faces exclusion;
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Believes that every EU household should have access to broadband Internet at a competitive price by 2013; urges the Commission therefore to carry out a review of the universal service obligations and calls on Member States to impart new impetus to the European high-speed broadband strategy, notably by updating national targets for broadband and high- speed coverage; draws particular attention to Article 174 of the Lisbon Treaty, noting that one solution to connecting the millions of EU citizens located in island, mountainous and sparsely populated regions within an acceptable timeframe and at reasonable cost, may be through wireless technologies such as satellite, which enables an immediate connectivity to the Internet backbone with no more than the installation of a dish and a terminal;
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on Member States to transposfully enforce the telecoms package before the established deadline, in particular the new provisions on Next Generation Access (NGA) networks and spectrum, which provide for a stable regulatory environment to stimulate investment while safeguarding competitionand to empower the national regulators before the established deadline;
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on Member States to reinvigorate their efforts to achieve competitive markets for ICT networks, products and services and also an enhanced single market for information society services;
Amendment 141 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Calls on stakeholders to adopt open models for communications network deployment to help boost innovation and drive demand;
Amendment 153 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Recalls that onthe aims of the new electronic communications regulatory framework is progressively to reduce ex ante sector-specific rules as competition in the markets develops and, ultimately, for electronic communications to be governed by competition law onlyare to promote competition in electronic communications networks and services, to contribute to the development of the internal market and to promote the interests of the citizens;
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Recalls that interoperability and accessibility are interlinked and are the bricks upon which an efficient information society will be built, in order for products, infrastructures and services to interoperate with each other so that Europeans can access services and data irrespective of which software they use; recalls in this regards that Open Standards, as defined in the European Interoperability Framework V1.0 should be the basis for that interoperability and accessibility;
Amendment 183 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Emphasises that all EU citizens should be made aware of their basic digital rights through a European Charter of citizens' and consumers' rights in the digital environment, consolidating and updating the Community acquis as appropriate; recommends that these rights be enshrined in a directive under the ad hoc legal base;
Amendment 187 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Calls on the Commission to report on the development of Internet blocking and filtering, and the impact of such regulations on Internet users' rights;
Amendment 205 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Insists on safeguarding an open Internet, where citizens have the right to access and distribute information or run applications and services of their choice; calls on the Commission, the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) and the National Regulatory Authorities (NRAs) to monitor closely and enforce the harmonised implementation of the 'net neutrality' provisions; of the revised Telecom Package; calls on the Commission to swiftly produce a legislative proposal providing net neutrality guidelines for operators of both fixed and mobile internet connections and to act in line with actions taken on roaming and local loop unbundling;
Amendment 225 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the EU institutions to remove the key regulatory obstacles to cross-border communications and online transactions by 2015; calls on the Commission to review the Community acquis affecting the online single market and to propose targeted legislative action on key impediments;
Amendment 238 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Takes the view that, almost a decade after their adoption, the Directives concerning the legal framework for the information society (i.e. the Data Protection Directive, Electronic Signatures Directive and, Electronic Commerce Directive and IP- enforcement Directives) appear out of date due to the increased complexity of the online environment and the introduction of new technologies; believes that, while the legal issues arising from some Directives can be resolved through an incremental update, other Directives need a more fundamental revision; stresses the key importance of the 'mere conduit' provision, as a crucial way of enabling net neutrality and competition on the digital market;
Amendment 258 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Emphasises the need to develop 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 2013improved, more efficient, and more consistent transparent rights management and clearance system for both musical and audiovisual works which would help all market players to streamline their transaction and management costs; considers that key to this new system is further transparency and competition between collecting rights management organisations helping drive a Digital Single Market forward; points out that an EU copyright title under Article 118 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU by 2013 may also contribute to creating a single market for copyrights and related rights, both online and offline;
Amendment 271 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Calls on the Commission and Council to recognise the fundamental difference between commercial and non- commercial copyright infringements; underlines the importance of exceptions and limitations for the development of the knowledge society, in particular when they favour disabled persons or when they directly contribute to research and education;
Amendment 274 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 b (new)
Paragraph 19 b (new)
19b. Believes that EU copyright law should recognise the public's status not only as a consumer but also as a participant in the cultural economy and that, as such, non-commercial file- sharing between individual and non- commercial re-uses of creative works should be allowed; calls on the Commission to produce comprehensive data regarding proposals for funding schemes supporting creation that are based on such non-commercial practices such as the 'creative contribution' or 'culture flat rate';
Amendment 287 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Calls on the Commission to assess with the Member States in what way Directives 2004/17/EC et 2004/18/EC on public works contracts and the transposition thereof support research and innovation and, where appropriate, to identify best practices; calls on the Commission and the Member States to consider developing public works contract innovation indicators;
Amendment 288 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 b (new)
Paragraph 21 b (new)
21b. Draws attention to the fact that pre- commercial procurement contributes to improving the quality of public services and to reducing the time to market of research results, in particular where the public purchaser requires the companies involved to grant intellectual property rights to third parties under fair and reasonable marketing conditions; reiterates its call on the Commission to draw up a guide to good practice for pre- commercial procurement and to work with the Member States to raise awareness among regional and local authorities; draws attention to the fact that technology platforms can align the early market development of new technologies with the needs of public authorities;
Amendment 289 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Considers that the 2015.eu agenda should aim at mainstreaming ICT for a low-carbon economy; calls for exploitation of ICT technologies to enable a reduction of 15% in CO2 emissions to be achieved in key sectors by 2020 and calls for promotion of responsible energy consumption, notably through the installation of smart meters in 50% of hommaking Europe a global leader of a resource-efficient society should be the top priority of the 2015.eu agenda; believes, in this respect, that the implementation of applications such as smart power grids, smart metering, smart mobility, smart water management and eHealth must be regarded as key initiatives byof 2015.eu; points out also that the ICT sector footprint should be reduced by 50% by 2015;