12 Amendments of Niccolò RINALDI related to 2012/2094(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recognises that the Internet has become a public space which has given rise to new methodavenues of cross-border trade and innovative market development, as well as social and cultural interaction; believes digital freedoms and free trade should go hand in hand to create and optimize business opportunities for European companies in the global digital economy;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Considers the Internet as a global market place for which the free flow of information and access to communication and information technologies are indispensable prerequisites. Calls for the inclusion of conditionality clauses in EU free trade agreements stipulating objective and transparent safeguards preserving unrestricted access to the open Internet and ensuring the free flow of information;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission and the Council not to conclude trade agreements with countries where EU ICT companies are required to restrict access to websites,EU to provide political backing to European companies faced in third countries with request to remove user-generated content or provide personal information in ways that breach fundamental rights and curtail the freedom to conduct business; calls on the EU to minimise the extra-territorial application of third-country legislation on EU citizens online;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Notes that eCommerce has developed outside of traditional and standard trade- regulatory frameworks. Stresses the importance of increased international cooperation in the WTO and WIPO to protect and ensure the development of the global digital market. Calls for a revision and update of the current Information Technology Agreement (ITA) in the WTO and for the EU to explore the possibilities of an International Digital Economy Agreement (IDEA);
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Considers restricted access for EU businesses to digital markets and online consumers through mass state censorship or restricted market-access for European online service providers in third countries protectionist measures and trade barriers, potentially to be addressed in international dispute settlement mechanisms; Calls on the Commission to present a strategy to challenge measures by third countries restricting access for EU companies to global online markets;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Notes that increased governmental involvement and regulation of the Internet hampers its open and unrestricted nature, thereby restricting the potential for increased eCommerce and EU businesses in the digital economy; believes a multi-stakeholder approach offers the best approach in ensuring a balance between public and private interest on the Internet and the global market place; calls for an international effort to build required infrastructures to enable the expansion of the digital economy, including liberal regulatory regimes, also to developing countries to increase mutual benefits in line with the trade for change principle;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 d (new)
Paragraph 4 d (new)
4d. Considers new technologies as enablers of change and beneficial to fundamental freedoms, human rights and business opportunities; acknowledges that EU made technologies and services are used in third countries to purposely violate human rights by censoring information, tracking citizens and for building parallel intranets;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Underlines the need for more stringent supply-chain controls and corporate responsibility schemes in respect of trading in products – from equipment to mobile devices – and services, which can be used to curtail human rights and digital freedom; regards jamming and interception technology products and services as ‘'single use’' items whose export should be subject to ex-ante approval. Urges the Commission to present a new draft Regulatory framework on dual use exports, addressing the export of potentially harmful export of ICTs to third countries and which foresees a coordinating and monitoring role for the Commission;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Believes companies should design and implement businesses practices monitoring the possible impact of new ICT products on human rights, also in the R&D phase, and to ensure non-complicity in possible human rights violations in third countries. Calls on the Commission to provide EU businesses with a wide range of information to ensure the right balance between business interests and corporate social responsibility;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Believes copyright reform in the EU is essential for completing both the EU's digital single market, as well for optimizing the opportunities for EU businesses and content providers in the global digital economy, calls on the Commission to further it's IPR strategy whilst taking into full account a need for a balanced copyright reform which suits the 21st century digital communications networks and is primarily based on fundamental rights protection online, proportional protection of rightsholders and preserving the open nature of the internet and it's innovation potential, and which should become the new basis for IPR provisions and commitments in future FTAs;