Activities of Paweł ZALEWSKI related to 2012/2094(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on a Digital Freedom Strategy in EU Foreign Policy PDF (232 KB) DOC (171 KB)
Amendments (20)
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas technological developments enable individuals and societies all over the world to use new information and communication technologies (ICTs) and to connect to the internet, thus fosteracilitating rdevolutionary changes inelopment of individuals and societies, the functioning of public communication, democracy, governance, the and economy, business, media, development and trade; and presenting important tools in fight for fundamental rights;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas restrictions should only exist in cases of using the Internet for illegal activities, such as incitement to hatred, violence and racism, totalitarian propaganda and children's access to pornography or their sexual exploitation;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Recognises the vast enabling, creating and catalysing potential of the internet and ICTs for community building, civil society, global economic, social, scientific, cultural and political development, contributing as such to the progress of humankind as a whole;
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that theCalls on the Commission to duly address the fact that there are countries applying repression and control of citizens and business involves a growing technological component, through the blocking of content and the monitoring and identification of human rights defenders, journalists, activists and dissidents, as well as through; further calls on the Commission to act against the criminalisation of legitimate expression online and the adoption of restrictive legislation to justify such measures; reaffirms therefore that such practices are against the Copenhagen criteria;
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses that effective EU development and human rights policies require mainstreaming ICTs and bridging the digital divide, by providing basic technological infrastructures and facilitating access to knowledge and information;
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Considers ICTs to be enablers of transparency and good governance, literacy, education, sexual and reproductive healthcare, effective election monitoring and disaster relief in remote areas or rural societies;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Stresses that EU development and aid programmes should include digital freedoms, above all in societhuman rights policies should include aid programs fostering digital freedoms, above all in societies in non-democratic countries, as well as in countries going through post-conflict or political transitions; believes that EU regulatory experts are essential interlocutors for purposes of training counterparts and embedding basic rights and principles in new (media) regulation and legislation;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Emphasises the need to ensure that rare earth materials used in the production of ICTs are obtained in conditions of respect for human, labour and environmental rights; and are not subject to monopolistic practices or subject to limitation of trade access caused by strictly political reasons;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Deplores the use offact that EU-made technologies and services are sometimes used in third countries to violate human rights through censorship of information, mass surveillance, monitoring, and the tracing and tracking of citizens and their activities on (mobile) telephone networks and the internet;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. WelcomesCalls for the ban on the export of repression technologies and services to Syria and Irannon-democratic countries; believes this ban should become a precedent for structural restrictive measures, such as an EU-wide ‘catch-all’ provision or ‘country- specific lists’ in the dual-use regulatory framework;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Regards certain targeted jamming, surveillance, monitoring and interception technology products and services as ‘single-use’ items whose export should be subject to ex ante approval, therefore calls for establishing a regularly updated list of countries violating the freedom of human right expression, to which export of 'single-use' items should be banned;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Believes companies should perform human rights impact assessments on ICTs, starting at the R&D phase, and ensure non-complicity in possible human rights violations in third countriesCalls on the Commission to provide for legal solutions enabling the Commission to demand human rights impact assessments from companies accomplishing public procurement;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. Calls on the Commission to propose a new regulatory framework for e- commerce, as well as an update of the Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive (IPRED), which would balance the need for copyright reform and protection with the need to protect fundamental rights online and preserve the open internet and would serve as a basis for IPR provisions and commitments in future FTAs; calls on the Commission to present an evaluation of the Information Society Directive;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
Paragraph 35
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36
Paragraph 36
36. Calls for political and diplomatic support for digital freedoms in recipient countries of EU aid, in addition to assistance programmes in non-democratic countries and in recipient countries of EU aid programs;
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38
Paragraph 38
38. Urges the Council and Commission to includpromote, in accession negotiations, human rights dialogues, trade negotiations and all forms of contact relating to human rights, conditionality clauses stipulating the need to respect and preserve unrestricted access to the internet, digital freedoms and human rights online;
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 41
Paragraph 41
41. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President of the European Commission, the Council, the Commission and the EEAS.