Activities of Evžen TOŠENOVSKÝ related to 2020/2216(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on shaping the digital future of Europe: removing barriers to the functioning of the digital single market and improving the use of AI for European consumers
Amendments (14)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
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1. Highlights that European leadership in digital transition can be a reality; notes that a second wave of digitalisation lies ahead; underlines that a common EU approach can makecontribute to making Europe the most competitive and innovative region in therespected worldwide by 2030;
Amendment 26 #
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2. Recognises that the EU has an enormously strong SME sector, which creates a backbone to the EU economy and competitiveness; recalls that this second wage of digitalisation could lead to a strong industrial development of SMEs; calls for a goal of 500emphasises the importance to support the emergence of a significant number of digital unicorns within 10 years;
Amendment 29 #
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2 a. Stresses that any legislative proposals related to digital area should be based on in-depth impact assessment to avoid unnecessary administrative or regulatory burden that could hamper the emergence of high-tech unicorns, start- ups and SMEs in Europe in order to unleash their potential at the global scale; invites therefore the Commission to come forward with a comparative analysis of regulatory environment in third countries;
Amendment 43 #
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3. Emphasises that the COVID crisis provides an opportunity to speed up digitalisation; calls for financial incentivunderlines the importance of financial incentives and opportunities through different EU programmes for SMEs that want to enter new markets;
Amendment 57 #
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4. Calls for special economic digital zones to promote structural change and create development cores for new digital economic structures across Europe in order to support a swift digital transition;
Amendment 59 #
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Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Emphasises that future-proof connectivity and cybersecurity represent a prerequisite of Union’s success in digital transition;
Amendment 61 #
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5. Calls on the Commission to stop funding big companies and distributing theprioritize funding of SMEs; remaining funds by a shotgun approach; calls for winners to be picked and grown larger; suggests prioritising future areas for digital economic structureds in this regard that mid-caps and bigger companies are contributing to creating a value chain for SMEs;
Amendment 72 #
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6 a. Reiterates the necessity to fully exploit all funding facilities and to benefit out of synergies provided for digital technologies by EU funding programmes, namely Horizon Europe, Digital Europe, CEF-Digital and Space Programme;
Amendment 82 #
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8. Demands measures to end to the brain drain andthat the conditions for EU's digital ecosystem composed of universities, research centers, business incubators and entreprises should be enhances to prevent the brain drain of European experts and to attract the best minds to the EU;
Amendment 102 #
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9. Recognises that AI deployment is key to European competitiveness in the digital eraof trustworthy and human-centric AI is key to European competitiveness of European businesses in the digital era, enabling them to bring innovative solutions to the market and scale up globally; highlights that to facilitate the uptake of AI in Europe, a common European approach is needed to avoid sinternalgle market fragmentation;
Amendment 111 #
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10. Considers that access to big data is key for the development of AI; calls for a new approach to data regulation, cloud services and computing capacities is key for the development of AI;
Amendment 119 #
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Paragraph 10 a (new)
10 a. Acknowledges the current success of the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking, an initiative of the EU engaging both Member States and private partners; welcomes the recently published Commission proposal on its continuation to maintain and advance Europe’s leading role in supercomputing and quantum computing strongly needed for the development of AI in Europe;
Amendment 133 #
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11. Warns against overregulating AI; demands that risk-based approach towards AI should be applied as a leading principle; recalls that regulation must be balanced, agile, permanently evaluated, and based on soft regulation except for high-risk areas; , particularly on self-regulation and voluntary practices such as voluntary labelling; acknowledges however that a legislative framework might be necessary for a strictly limited categories of high-risk AI;
Amendment 146 #
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