6 Amendments of Liisa JAAKONSAARI related to 2016/2271(INI)
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2 b. Highlights the risk of shifting of profits from industrial players towards the owners of proprietary digital platforms and of concentration of market into the hands of few actors creating de-facto monopolies, in particular with regard to platforms; considers necessary effective and consistent actions by the competition authorities and, where necessary, legislative initiatives, to ensure fair competition between a plurality of actors, also in the digital environment;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Deems it necessary to ensure the full respect of workers’ and consumers’ right to privacy and to protection of their personal data in the digital environment; emphasises the importance of the correct implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation, ensuring the full application of the principle of ‘privacy by design and by default’; believes that consumers and workers should be in control of the data they produce or that are linked to the products and services they use and should be properly informed about the impact of their decisions over these issues; considers that the issue of worker-related data and their use raises important concerns and should be swiftly clarified; calls on the Commission to define some minimum requirements on this issue; underlines the need to set up an European Directive on Privacy at the workplace;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Calls on the European Commission to clarify as soon as possible safety and liability rules for autonomously acting systems (such as vehicles and drones), to ensure fast and effective legal compensation in case of incident and to harmonise the conditions for testing;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5 b. Considers interoperability necessary in particular in the domain of Internet of Things to ensure that the development of new technologies improves the opportunities for consumers, who should not be locked-in with certain specific providers; stresses the challenges relating to safety, security and liability with regard to IoT, apps and non- embedded software and calls on the Commission to put forward enhanced efforts on these issues, including in order to raise consumers' awareness and promote a safe use of these instruments;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Highlights the very important consequences of industry digitalisation for society, business models, working conditions and jobs demand; regrets the lack of analysis on the part of the Commission of the social effects of the digitisation of industry; calls on the European Commission to carry on an in depth analysis on these issues, focusing also to the consequences of industry digitisation on the number and the quality of jobs, and to present it to the European Parliament by the end of 2017;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. While recognising the opportunities of industry digitalisation, stresses also certain challenges it is posing to job demands, working conditions and workers' rights, in particular in non-standard employment relationships, and highlights the necessity to ensure the full respect of employment rights and adequate social security coverage in the digital world of work; believes it is necessary to involve social partners in the definition of European and national initiative on industry digitalisation; welcomes the proposals to hold high-level roundtables and an European stakeholders forum on digitalisation; believes workers' representatives' involvement to be necessary with regard to companies' decisions over externalisation and digitalisation;