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European Parliament2019-2024

Committee on Industry, Research and Energy

2020/2217(INI)

12.11.2020

AMENDMENTS1 - 367Draft reportMiapetra Kumpula-Natri(PE657.163v03-00)

A European strategy for data(2020/2217(INI))

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Amendment 1Josianne Cutajar, Miapetra Kumpula-Natri, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Carlos Zorrinho, Łukasz Kohut, Romana Jerković, Nicolás González Casares, Ivo Hristov

Motion for a resolutionCitation 6 a (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

- having regard to the findings of the Digital Economy and Society Index 2020, published on the 11th of June 2020

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Amendment 2Nicola Danti, Andrus Ansip, Mauri Pekkarinen, Christophe Grudler, Valérie Hayer, Susana Solís Pérez, Dragoș Pîslaru, Iskra Mihaylova, Klemen Grošelj, Martina Dlabajová



- having regard to the Member States Joint Declaration on Cloud of 15 October 2020;

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Amendment 3Manuel Bompard, Marisa Matias, Cornelia Ernston behalf of the GUE/NGL Group



- having regard to the Court of Justice of the European Union ruling on the Schrems II case C-311/18, from July 16 2020,

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Amendment 4Damian Boeselageron behalf of the Verts/ALE Group



- having regard to the Commission communication of 21 October 2020 entitled ‘Open source software strategy 2020 – 2023’

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Amendment 5Eva Maydell, Tomas Tobé, Pilar del Castillo Vera, Angelika Niebler, Ivan Štefanec, Isabel Wiseler-Lima, Maria da Graça Carvalho, Sara Skyttedal, Gheorghe Falcă, Henna Virkkunen



- having regard to the Joint Declaration of Member States on Building the next generation cloud for businesses and the public sector in the EU, 2020

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Amendment 6Joëlle Mélin, Jérôme Rivière, Thierry Mariani, Markus Buchheit, Isabella Tovaglieri, Paolo Borchia



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- having regard to the OECD report entitled 'Building back better: a sustainable, resilient recovery after COVID-19', published on 5 June 2020,

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Motion for a resolutionCitation 29 b (new)


- having regard to the programmatic book entitled 'COVID-19: The Great Reset', a plan to 'reset the world' published by the World Economic Forum and co-signed by Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malleret,

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Amendment 8Eva Maydell, Tomas Tobé, Edina Tóth, Pilar del Castillo Vera, Angelika Niebler, Maria da Graça Carvalho, Ivan Štefanec, Isabel Wiseler-Lima, Sara Skyttedal, Gheorghe Falcă, Henna Virkkunen

Motion for a resolutionCitation 29 b (new)


- having regard to the Final report prepared by the High-Level Expert Group on Business-to-Government Data Sharing, 2020

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Amendment 9Manuel Bompard, Marisa Matias, Cornelia Ernst

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on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group

Motion for a resolutionRecital A


A. whereas digitalisation has transformed the economy, society and citizens’ daily lives, and whereas data, which is duplicated every 18 months, is at the heart of this transformation;

A. whereas digitalisation has transformed the economy, society and citizens’ daily lives, and whereas data, which is duplicated every 18 months, is at the heart of this transformation; whereas digitalisation should also be an opportunity to reduce human exposure to harmful and hazardous conditions and help to create more quality and decent jobs;

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Amendment 10Ignazio Corrao, Eleonora Evi




A. whereas digitalisation has transformed the economy, society and citizens’ daily lives, and whereas data, which is duplicated every 18 months, is at the heart of this transformation; whereas these processes will only accelerate in the future;

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A. whereas digitalisation keeps transforming the economy, society and citizens’ daily lives, and whereas data, which is duplicated every 18 months, is at the heart of this transformation;

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Motion for a resolutionRecital A a (new)


Aa. whereas the volume of data stored worldwide will increase from 33 ZB in 2018 to 175 ZB in 2025, and whereas the internet of things and China will account for a significant proportion of this sharp rise;

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Amendment 13Eva Maydell, Tomas Tobé, Edina Tóth, Pilar del Castillo Vera, Angelika Niebler, Ivan Štefanec, Isabel Wiseler-Lima, Maria da Graça Carvalho, Sara Skyttedal, Gheorghe Falcă, Henna Virkkunen, Salvatore De Meo



A a. whereas digitalisation is not only an economic opportunity but also enhances security, geopolitical resilience and strategic relevance of the Union;

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Amendment 14Manuel Bompard, Marisa Matiason behalf of the GUE/NGL Group



A a. whereas artificial intelligence is one of the strategic technologies for the 21st century both globally and in Europe1a;_________________1a https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/TA-8-2019-0081_FR.html

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Motion for a resolutionRecital A b (new)


A b. whereas Midea, a Chinese household appliance company, finalised the acquisition in January 2017 of the European company KUKA AG, one of the world's leading suppliers of robotics, installation technology and intelligent systems engineering; whereas this takeover should have served as a wake-up call for the protection of the European AI sector, in particular for SMEs and start-ups;

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Motion for a resolutionRecital A c (new)


A c. whereas EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager has alerted member countries to the risks of Chinese takeovers during the coronavirus crisis; whereas the European Commission has pointed out that in the context of the COVID-19 crisis, there could be an increased risk of attempts to acquire healthcare capacity (e.g. for the production of medical or protective equipment) or related activities such as research institutes (e.g. for the development of vaccines) through foreign direct investment 1a;_________________1a https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regdoc/rep/3/2020/FR/C-2020-1981-F1-FR-MAIN-PART-1.PDF

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Motion for a resolutionRecital A d (new)


A d. whereas only public authorities have the means to undertake a large-scale social transition to a data economy; whereas the current digital giants, GAFAMs, have all benefited from the support of the American administration and the Chinese state, respectively through massive tax exemptions and subsidies; whereas European values can

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enable the European public authorities to plan this transition in a fair, redistributive way for companies and territories;

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Motion for a resolutionRecital A e (new)


A e. whereas there are a number of ongoing investigations in the Member States into the abuse of the dominant position of GAFAM; whereas there is concern about the data collected by Google via its applications;

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Motion for a resolutionRecital B


B. whereas data is an essential resource for economic growth, job creation and societal progress and is a key enabler of the transition to green and climate-neutral societies;

B. whereas data is an essential resource for the recovery plan, job creation and societal progress and can be a key enabler of the transition to green and climate-neutral societies; whereas data localisation in the EU represents an important step towards strategic autonomy and reduction of emissions of the EU; whereas relocation of data centers in Europe should be considered under the Green taxonomy; whereas it is absolutely necessary to minimise the ecological footprint of digital technology

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and in particular the volume of electrical and electronic waste;

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Amendment 20Joëlle Mélin, Jérôme Rivière, Thierry Mariani, Isabella Tovaglieri, Paolo Borchia




B. whereas data and information are resources which contribute to economic growth, job creation and the organisation of our societies, and whereas they are used to rationalise economic and social behaviour in the hope of enabling the transition to sustainable and climate-neutral societies;

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Amendment 21Nicola Danti, Andrus Ansip, Mauri Pekkarinen, Christophe Grudler, Valérie Hayer, Susana Solís Pérez, Dragoș Pîslaru, Bart Groothuis, Iskra Mihaylova, Klemen Grošelj, Martina Dlabajová




B. whereas data is an essential resource for economic growth, job creation and societal progress and is a key enabler of the transition to green and climate-neutral societies as well as in boosting Europe's global competitiveness;

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Amendment 22

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Ivo Hristov




B. whereas data is an essential resource for sustainable economic growth, quality job creation and societal progress and is a key enabler of the transition to green and climate-neutral societies;

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Amendment 23Evžen Tošenovský, Elżbieta Kruk, Margarita de la Pisa Carrión




B. whereas data is an essential resource for economic growth, job creation and societal progress and is a key enabler of the competitiveness of the European companies on a global scale;

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Amendment 24Eva Maydell, Edina Tóth, Pilar del Castillo Vera, Salvatore De Meo, Angelika Niebler, Ivan Štefanec, Isabel Wiseler-Lima, Maria da Graça Carvalho, Sara Skyttedal, Gheorghe Falcă, Henna Virkkunen, Tomas Tobé

Motion for a resolutionRecital B a (new)


B a. whereas public sector and government-generated data at national and local level is a resource that can serve as a powerful engine for creating new jobs and promoting economic growth that

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can be harnessed in the development of AI systems and data analytics, contributing to a stronger, competitive and more interconnected industry;

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B a. whereas incentivising the use of data and increasing data access and availability, together with more legal certainty, will represent a competitive advantage for micro, SMEs and start-ups in order to reap the benefits of the digital transition;

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B a. whereas the digital sector is currently responsible for 4% of global greenhouse gas emissions; whereas the greenhouse effect and the strong increase in use suggests that this carbon footprint will double by 2025;

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Amendment 27Patrizia Toia, Miapetra Kumpula-Natri, Romana Jerković, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Ivo Hristov, Nicolás González Casares, Eva Kaili, Maria-Manuel Leitão-Marques



B a. whereas the EU requires the availability of flexible, scalable, reliable IT architecture, capable of supporting the most innovative applications;

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Motion for a resolutionRecital B b (new)


B b. whereas an average data centre already consumes the energy equivalent of a city of 10,000 inhabitants and greenhouse gas emissions due to digital technology are currently increasing by around 8% per year; whereas in its November study, the European Commission expects a 28% increase in data centre consumption from 2018 to 2030; whereas their share in European electricity consumption would also increase, from 2.7% in 2018 to 3.2% in ten years' time; whereas edge computing, an alternative to the Cloud, is also expected to explode, from 2% of energy consumption to 12% 1a;_________________1a https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/energy-efficient-cloud-computing-technologies-and-policies-eco-friendly-cloud-market

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Motion for a resolutionRecital B c (new)


B c. whereas artificial intelligence has an energy balance; whereas already 47% of digital carbon emissions are due to consumer equipment (computers, smartphones, tablets, connected objects); considering that a standard machine learning project today emits about 284 tons of CO2 equivalent over its entire development cycle, i.e. five times the emissions of a car, from its manufacture to its scrapping 1a; considering therefore that advocating simultaneously the "Internet of Things" and the fight against the climate crisis is nonsense and that a major change in production and consumption must be made by our societies;_________________1a Energy and Policy Considerations for Deep Learning in NLP, Cornell University https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.02243?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+arxiv%2FQSXk+%28ExcitingAds%21+cs+updates+on+arXiv.org%29

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Recital B d (new)


B d. whereas under a high demand scenario, the EU would need 18 times more lithium by 2030 and 60 times more by 2050 1a; whereas the mining needed for this development is water-intensive, which may compete with the needs of local populations, especially in water-stressed regions; whereas mining activities in third countries can be the source of intense pollution affecting the quality of water, air and soil, deforestation and loss of biodiversity; whereas extractive activities are concentrated in developing countries, where labour standards are far less protective than in the EU, and whereas, as a result, working conditions in mining operations endanger the health and lives of mine workers; whereas pollution caused by mining activities has a direct impact on the livelihood of local populations and may ultimately force them into exile; whereas local populations suffer the indirect consequences of water, air and soil contamination, with a major impact on their health;_________________1a https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/FR/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:52020DC0493&from=FR#footnote87

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Amendment 31Patrizia Toia, Romana Jerković, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Maria-Manuel Leitão-Marques, Miapetra Kumpula-Natri

Motion for a resolutionRecital C


C. whereas the Union must urgently take action to reap the benefits of data by

C. whereas the Union must urgently take action to reap the benefits of data by

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building an ethically sustainable, human-centric, trustworthy and secure data society that respects human rights and democracy;

building an ethically sustainable, human-centric, trustworthy and secure data society that respects human rights and democracy and that aims to build a new open and inclusive knowledge economy, in connection with the education system and the cultural enterprises, that ensures the right to quality education and entrepreneurship, especially among the new generations, especially promoting forms of social innovation and new business models;

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Amendment 32Eva Maydell, Pilar del Castillo Vera, Maria da Graça Carvalho, Angelika Niebler, Ivan Štefanec, Isabel Wiseler-Lima, Sara Skyttedal, Gheorghe Falcă, Henna Virkkunen, Tomas Tobé, Salvatore De Meo, Edina Tóth



C. whereas the Union must urgently take action to reap the benefits of data by building an ethically sustainable, human-centric, trustworthy and secure data society that respects human rights and democracy;

C. whereas the Union must urgently take action to reap the benefits of data by building a competitive, innovation-friendly, ethically sustainable, human-centric, trustworthy and secure data society and economy that respects human rights and democracy;

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C. whereas the Union must urgently take action to reap the benefits of data by building an ethically sustainable, human-

C. whereas the Union must urgently take action to reap the benefits of data by building an ethically sustainable, human-

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centric, trustworthy and secure data society that respects human rights and democracy;

centric, trustworthy and secure data society that respects human rights, democracy and the rule of law and benefits all;

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C. whereas the Union must urgently take action to reap the benefits of data by building an ethically sustainable, human-centric, trustworthy and secure data society that respects human and labour rights, fundamental rights and democracy;

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C. whereas the Union must first of all comply with the laws on personal data and the right to anonymity, and may also consider ways of making European data more secure and less vulnerable to foreign attacks;

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Motion for a resolutionRecital C a (new)


C a. whereas there is an exponential development of task work on platforms, the so-called microwork; whereas according to the World Bank, there were 145 online work platforms in 2013, around which 50 million crowdworkers were gravitating; whereas these workers are constantly confronted with algorithmic reputation scores and automated tests, and are at constant risk of being disconnected from the platforms without recourse in the event of prolonged poor scoring; whereas they are therefore particularly exposed to insecurity, social isolation, overwork, work and unstructured lifestyles with significant consequences for their physical and mental well-being;

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Motion for a resolutionRecital C a (new)


C a. whereas the EU Earth observation system Copernicus should serve as an example of socio-economic benefits of freely and openly available large amount of data for European citizens and businesses;

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Amendment 38

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Manuel Bompard, Marisa Matias, Cornelia Ernston behalf of the GUE/NGL Group

Motion for a resolutionRecital D


D. whereas all uses of personal data should be consistent with the General Data Protection Regulation and the e-Privacy Directive;

D. whereas all uses of personal data should be consistent with the General Data Protection Regulation and the e-Privacy Directive; whereas two years after the implementation of the GDPR, the European Commission needs to take action to make sure authorities do not abuse current data protection rules; whereas the processing of workers' data has become increasingly complex; whereas in a growing number of contexts workers interact with technologies, applications, software, tracking devices, social media or in-vehicle devices that monitor their health, biomedical data, communications and interactions with others, as well as their level of engagement and concentration, or behaviours; whereas however only one article of the GDPR is devoted to employment, Article 88 on the processing of personal data in the context of employment relations;

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D. whereas all uses of personal data should be consistent with the General Data Protection Regulation and the e-Privacy Directive and their proper enforcement should be available especially on purpose

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limitation and data minimisation aspects; at all times, protection of privacy should remain a priority;

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Amendment 40Eva Maydell, Edina Tóth, Angelika Niebler, Ivan Štefanec, Isabel Wiseler-Lima, Maria da Graça Carvalho, Sara Skyttedal, Gheorghe Falcă, Henna Virkkunen, Salvatore De Meo, Tomas Tobé, Pilar del Castillo Vera




D. whereas all uses of personal data should be consistent with the General Data Protection Regulation and the e-Privacy Directive; and whereas there are non personal or public sector data respectively consistent with Regulation on Free Flow of non-personal Data and Open Data Directive;

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D. whereas all uses of personal and/or business data should be consistent with the General Data Protection Regulation and the e-Privacy Directive;

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Amendment 42

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Manuel Bompard, Marisa Matias, Cornelia Ernston behalf of the GUE/NGL Group

Motion for a resolutionRecital D a (new)


D a. whereas data resulting from the "free collaboration" of users through their activities are the raw material on which the digital economy feeds; whereas data, and in particular personal data, are indeed at the heart of all business models in the digital economy; whereas data are acquiring a value that is increasingly well documented by the market and its observers; whereas data constitutes a common basis for the entire digital economy conducive to the establishment of a digital tax system;

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Motion for a resolutionRecital D a (new)


D a. whereas, according to Eurobarometer, the share of European citizens who would like to take a more active role in controlling the use of their personal data, including health, energy consumption and shopping habits (46%) is larger than those who would not like (38%);

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Motion for a resolutionRecital D b (new)


D b. whereas health is a particularly sensitive sector for the processing of personal data; whereas while AI will undoubtedly bring societal benefits in this sector, it nevertheless entails risks which justify strict supervision and regulation; whereas digital health must not pave the way for the dehumanisation of care; whereas, moreover, the digital divide, if not bridged, is likely to contribute significantly to the spread of medical deserts across Europe;

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Motion for a resolutionRecital D c (new)


D c. whereas personal health data must remain the property of the patient; whereas no information concerning a patient's health should be communicated without the patient's full and informed consent; whereas personal health data, due to their extremely sensitive nature, must be scrupulously protected; whereas the highest cybersecurity standards must be established for these networks; whereas, in particular, interesting initiatives by some AI developers born during the crisis, offering anti-spam solutions to hospitals for the protection of their messaging systems free of charge and without obligation against computer attacks;

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Motion for a resolutionRecital D d (new)


D d. whereas it is particularly important in the field of health to guarantee a high level of protection of the rights of individuals and the need to respect the principles of limitation and minimisation of data by these new research processing operations, which are extremely sensitive, in the context of the development of artificial intelligence techniques in the field of health; whereas there are risks inherent in the possible concentration of sensitive data on a technological platform, which requires the introduction of appropriate security measures; whereas, finally, there are material and legal risks in the event of transfers of data outside the European Union;

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Motion for a resolutionRecital D e (new)


D e. whereas the French data protection authority (CNIL) has recommended against hosting the Health Data Hub on a Microsoft platform; whereas following the EU court decision

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on the Privacy Shield, the French authorities have announced to move the Hub to French or European platforms; whereas the data protection authority in the German state of Baden-Württemberg has fined health insurer AOK Baden-Württemberg €1.2 million for breaches of the EU’s data protection regime;

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Motion for a resolutionRecital D f (new)


D f. whereas EU data protection rules should be adapted to take into account the increased complexity and interconnection of care and medical robots that may be required to handle highly sensitive personal information and medical data and aligned with the integrated protection of privacy, as laid down in Regulation (EU) 2016/679 on data protection;

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Motion for a resolutionRecital D g (new)


D g. whereas concerns have been repeatedly raised by the European Data Protection Committee (EDPS) regarding access by North American authorities to data transferred to the United States, in

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particular the collection of and access to personal data for national security purposes under Section 702 of the US FISA Act and Executive Order 12 333;

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Motion for a resolutionRecital D h (new)


D h. whereas the provisions of the GDPR prohibit any request for access from a court or administrative authority of a third country, addressed to companies whose processing operations are subject to the GDPR, outside an applicable international agreement or, according to the interpretation of the EDPS, outside the application of a derogation relating to the vital interest of the data subject;

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Motion for a resolutionRecital D i (new)


D i. whereas most Member States have already launched legislative frameworks for driverless driving, which requires a large data infrastructure, without any debate on the social utility of autonomous vehicles;

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Motion for a resolutionRecital D j (new)


D j. whereas the European Union’s ICT agency for internal security and border control, eu-LISA, has signed a framework contract for a new biometric matching system, which aims to create a database of fingerprints and facial images of more than 400 million people by 2022;

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Motion for a resolutionRecital D k (new)


D k. whereas the gender gap between women and men continues to exist across all digital technology domains, with Artificial Intelligence and cybersecurity being among the domains with the largest gaps; whereas this gender gap has a concrete impact on the development of AI, reproducing and enhancing stereotypes and bias, since it has predominantly been designed by males;

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Motion for a resolutionRecital E


E. whereas the Union should be an active global player in setting rules based on its values;

E. whereas cooperation between EU Member States can play a key role in the fight for data control and data sovereignty, and whereas rules founded on the values flowing from that cooperation would protect Europeans effectively;

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Motion for a resolutionRecital E


E. whereas the Union should be an active global player in setting rules based on its values;

E. whereas the Union should be an active global player in setting rules and standards based on its values;

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Motion for a resolutionRecital E a (new)


E a. whereas, according to the Digital Economy and Society Index 2020, in 2018 only a minority of large companies (33%) and SMEs (12%) used big data analytics, whereas the gap between large and

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small/medium businesses in advanced digital technologies still exists;

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Amendment 57Patrizia Toia, Miapetra Kumpula-Natri, Romana Jerković, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Ivo Hristov, Nicolás González Casares, Maria-Manuel Leitão-Marques



E a. whereas an adequate infrastructure is needed in the EU, through the use of high-performance hardware and storage to run applications and store data;

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Ea. whereas in 2018 a cyber attack cost the victim USD 13 million on average, and whereas that cost is increasing every year;

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Motion for a resolutionRecital E b (new)

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E b. whereas investments in skills in cloud and big data can help companies distant from technology to turn their business; and whereas companies considered to be at the forefront must remain constantly updated on recent technology innovations in order not to lose their competitive advantage;

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Amendment 60Josianne Cutajar, Miapetra Kumpula-Natri, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Carlos Zorrinho, Łukasz Kohut, Romana Jerković, Nicolás González Casares, Csaba Molnár, Ivo Hristov



E b. whereas the European strategy for data will be instrumental, among other things, to achieve industrial policy objectives and will be beneficial to help European businesses, including SMEs, to successfully face the digital transition;

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Eb. whereas Article 16 TFEU states that everyone has the right to the protection of their personal data;

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Motion for a resolutionRecital E c (new)


Ec. whereas in its digital package published on 19 February 2020 the Commission states that ICT today accounts for between 5% and 9% of global electricity consumption and 2% of CO2 emissions and that the volume of data transferred and stored will continue to grow exponentially in the years to come; whereas, further, the 2018 study on artificial intelligence drawn up by the Joint Research Centre already suggested that data centres and data transmission could account for 3 to 4% of the Union's total electricity consumption;

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Amendment 63Eva Maydell, Ivan Štefanec, Isabel Wiseler-Lima, Maria da Graça Carvalho, Sara Skyttedal, Gheorghe Falcă, Henna Virkkunen, Tomas Tobé, Edina Tóth, Pilar del Castillo Vera, Angelika Niebler

Motion for a resolutionParagraph 1


1. Welcomes the Commission communication entitled ‘A European strategy for data’; believes that it is a prerequisite for the viability of European industries and nascent AI, and a vital step towards a democratic data society, which will bring better services, growth and jobs;

1. Welcomes the Commission communication entitled ‘A European strategy for data’; believes that it is a prerequisite for the viability of European industries and nascent AI, and a vital step towards a democratic data society, which will bring better services, growth and jobs; underlines the importance to avoid protectionism and to allow access to data spaces to non-EU stakeholders, strictly

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complying with EU privacy, data protection, cybersecurity standards and rules;

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Amendment 64Joëlle Mélin, Markus Buchheit, Isabella Tovaglieri, Paolo Borchia




1. Welcomes the Commission communication entitled ‘A European strategy for data’; notes the determination to create a framework guaranteeing European data sovereignty, but points out that this concept has not yet been defined; believes that it is a prerequisite for the viability of European industries and enterprises and nascent AI, and a vital step towards effective data control under democratic scrutiny, and that it will bring better services, growth and jobs;

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1. Welcomes the Commission communication entitled ‘A European strategy for data’; believes that it is a prerequisite for the viability of European industries, the progress of universities and research centres and nascent AI, and a vital step towards a democratic data society, which will bring better services,

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growth and jobs;

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1. Welcomes the Commission communication entitled ‘A European strategy for data’; believes that it is a prerequisite for the EU to acquire a leading role in the data economy and for the viability of European industries and a vital step towards a democratic data society, which will bring better services, growth and jobs;

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1. Welcomes the Commission communication entitled ‘A European strategy for data’; believes that it is a prerequisite for the viability of European industries and nascent AI, and a vital step towards a rights-based and democratic data society, which will lead to better services, sustainable growth and jobs;

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1. Welcomes the Commission communication entitled ‘A European strategy for data’; believes that it is a prerequisite for a regulation and the viability of European industries and nascent AI, and a vital step towards a democratic data society, which will bring better services, sustainable growth and jobs;

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Amendment 69Ivo Hristov




1. Welcomes the Commission communication entitled ‘A European strategy for data’; believes that it is a prerequisite for the viability of European industries and nascent AI, and a vital step towards a democratic data society, which will bring better services, sustainable growth and quality jobs;

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Amendment 70Eva Maydell, Isabel Wiseler-Lima, Maria da Graça Carvalho, Sara Skyttedal, Gheorghe Falcă, Tomas Tobé, Pilar del Castillo Vera, Angelika Niebler, Ivan Štefanec, Henna Virkkunen, Pascal Arimont

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Motion for a resolutionParagraph 1 a (new)


1 a. Believes that the free flow of data across borders is critical to seize all the potential of the data economy and stresses that preserving the flow of data must remain a foundation of Europe’s values and objectives;

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1 a. Underlines that Artificial Intelligence (AI) relies on high-quality and increased data availability to create data sets able to train algorithms and improve their performance;

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Amendment 72Nicola Danti, Andrus Ansip, Mauri Pekkarinen, Christophe Grudler, Valérie Hayer, Susana Solís Pérez, Dragoș Pîslaru, Bart Groothuis, Iskra Mihaylova, Klemen Grošelj

Motion for a resolutionParagraph 1 b (new)


1 b. Highlights that the significant increase in the amount of data available, particularly as a result of smart connected objects, and the broader data access and

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use will entail challenges related to data quality, data bias and data protection and security or unfair trading conditions that will have to be addressed;

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2. Notes that the COVID-19 crisis highlights the role of real-time data;

2. Notes that the COVID-19 crisis has been the occasion to develop the role of real-time data with noticeable success yet to be demonstrated; further notes concerns expressed by citizens; recalls its position regarding the application developed to fight Covid-19, especially that any use of applications developed by national and EU authorities may not be obligatory and that the generated data are not to be stored in centralised databases, which are prone to potential risk of abuse and loss of trust and may endanger uptake throughout the Union; demands that all storage of data be decentralised, full transparency be given on commercial interests of developers of these applications, and that clear projections be demonstrated as regards how the use of contact tracing apps by a part of the population, in combination with specific other measures 1a ;_________________1a https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/RC-9-2020-0143_EN.html

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Amendment 74Eva Maydell, Edina Tóth, Salvatore De Meo, Pilar del Castillo Vera, Pascal Arimont, Ivan Štefanec, Isabel Wiseler-Lima, Maria da Graça Carvalho, Sara Skyttedal, Tomas Tobé, Gheorghe Falcă, Angelika Niebler, Henna Virkkunen




2. Notes that the COVID-19 crisis highlights the role of real-time data sharing and the need for interoperability of solutions across Member States; stresses the need to accelerate the establishment of sectoral data spaces, as well as the deployment of data infrastructures, tools and computing capacity, in particular Common European Health Data Space by supporting the development of national electronic health records and interoperability of health data;

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2. Notes that the COVID-19 crisis has highlighted how crucial the digital transformation and the availability of a wide range of technologies is for our economy and society, notably preserving continuity of all activities, and the role of real-time data; stresses that the ongoing emergency situation is showing shortcomings and vulnerabilities both at EU and Member States' level in the digital area;

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2. Notes that the COVID-19 crisis highlights the role of real-time data while showing severe infrastructural shortcomings in all those areas in Europe that do not have reliable access to broadband and those basic tools that are necessary to participate in the digital transformation;

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2. Notes that the COVID-19 crisis highlights the role of real-time and high quality data and information;

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2. Notes that the COVID-19 crisis highlights the role the role and value of high-quality real-time data;

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2 a. Recalls the role Recovery and Resilience Facility should play in contributing to the digital agenda and supports the proposed 20% earmarking for digital for each national plan; calls on Member States to provide adequate resources for EU relevant programmes such as Digital Europe Programme, Connecting Europe Facility and Horizon Europe to support digital priorities, in order to improve Europe's competitiveness in the global digital economy and reinforce the Union’s strategic autonomy;

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2 a. Stresses that the processing of workers' data has become increasingly complex; in view of the development of technologies that can analyse not only

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physical traits and biometric data, but also engage in facial recognition and even detect emotions or behaviour, considers that new legislation is needed to strengthen workers' rights of access to their analysed data and the way in which these data are used, stored or shared outside the employment relationship;

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Amendment 81Evžen Tošenovský, Elżbieta Kruk, Jessica Stegrud, Margarita de la Pisa Carrión



2 a. Stresses that any legislative proposals related to data should be based on an 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 European Commission to come forward with comparative analysis of regulatory environment in third countries;

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Amendment 82Dragoș Pîslaru, Susana Solís Pérez, Klemen Grošelj, Christophe Grudler



2 a. Notes that the COVID-19 crisis has highlighted how crucial the digital transformation and the availability of a wide range of technologies is for our

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economy and society, especially in the public sector and the healthcare industries, notably preserving continuity and maintaining the efficiency of all activities and public services, and the role of real-time and reliable data;

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2 b. Considers it regrettable that only one article of the GDPR is devoted to employment, Article 88 on the processing of personal data in the context of employment relations; stresses that it is imperative that workers be properly trained in how to exercise their right to respect for their personal data; calls on the Commission to present a revision of the GDPR in order to adopt more specific measures to ensure the protection of workers' rights and freedoms; urges the European Data Protection Committee, pending a proposal from the Commission, to provide guidelines extending the scope of Article 88;

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2 b. Stresses the need to continue addressing effectively the digital divide both across and within Member States, including by improving access to broadband and ICT services, thus promoting cohesion and economic and social development; regrets that currently only 60% of European remote and rural areas have access to high-speed broadband connections and highlights the role that satellites and other space-based assets and services will play in providing connectivity in those areas, building the preconditions for a full digital transformation;

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Motion for a resolutionParagraph 2 c (new)


2 c. Considers that trade unions, at the national level, should be involved and be able to cooperate more extensively with national data protection authorities, to provide them with recommendations relating to the specific situations of workers and to encourage them to develop guidelines on data protection and privacy in the workplace;

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Paragraph 2 d (new)


2 d. Insists that rules on surveillance and monitoring of employees must be clearly justified and discussed on a case-by-case basis in consultation with trade union organisations; considers that these rules should cover as many aspects as possible, set limits, and indicate where and how data is collected from employees, in particular as regards private e-mails, messages posted on social networks or off-line activities; demands that the right of employees to be disconnected or unreachable be respected;

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Motion for a resolutionParagraph 2 f (new)


2 f. Welcomes the proposal of Data Governance Act to deliver on Commissionner Breton's stance that European data should be stored and processed in Europe because they belong in Europe; further insists that July ECJ case on the Privacy Shield should be the occasion for regulators to call for data stored in the U.S. to be relocated to Europe;

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Motion for a resolutionParagraph 2 g (new)


2 g. Considers that if the Commission opts for a risk based approach, the levels of risk shouldn't be limited to 'high risk' and 'low risk' applications but rather a scaling up of risks to coincide with the variety of applications and relating risks;

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Motion for a resolutionParagraph 2 h (new)


2 h. Considers that biometric data, given their specific and extremely sensitive nature as well as their potential misuses, should be classified in the highest category of the risk level scale proposed by the Commission; strongly believes that the use of biometric data should be submitted to specific safeguards such as the informed and explicit consent of their owner as well as access to effective remedies in case of misuse of such data;

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Motion for a resolutionSubheading 2 a (new)

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Recalls that the Union is founded on the values set out in Article 2 of the Treaty on European Union and on the respect of the precautionary principle set out in Article 191(2) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union;

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Motion for a resolutionSubheading 2 b (new)


Stresses the need to constantly question the social and environmental utility of each technology developed; affirms as elected officials our responsibility to question progress, that not every feasible technological development is necessarily beneficial to society;

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3. Believes that the Union’s aim must be an EU-governed, human-centric, data-driven society built on trust and values of privacy, transparency and fundamental rights;

3. Believes that the Union’s aim must be a human-centric, data-driven economy and society based on the EU values of privacy, transparency and respect of fundamental rights and freedoms and thus built on trust and in the interests of

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European citizens and businesses, in compliance with data protection, competition law and intellectual property rights;

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3. Believes that the Union’s aim must be a society driven by data, information and the objective analysis of that data, governed by the Member States on the basis of cooperation and centred on the freedom of the individual, built on trust and values of privacy, transparency and fundamental rights;

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3. Believes that the Union’s aim must be an EU-governed, human-centric, data-driven society built on trust and values of privacy, transparency and fundamental rights, that put individual interest first while also fostering the common good;

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3. Believes that the Union’s objective must be EU-wide governance for a data economy in a human-centric society built on trust and values of privacy, transparency, accessibility and fundamental rights;

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3. Believes that the Union’s aim must be an EU-governed, human-centric, data-driven society built on trust and values of privacy, transparency and fundamental and labour rights;

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3 a. Stresses that biases inherent in underlying datasets are inclined to

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gradually increase and thereby perpetuate and amplify existing discrimination, in particular for persons belonging to minority ethnic groups or racialized communities; considers that such an effect is unacceptable in particular in the area of law enforcement and as regard article 2 of the Treaties;

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Amendment 98Eva Kaili, Ivo Hristov, Miapetra Kumpula-Natri, Patrizia Toia, Romana Jerković, Josianne Cutajar, Tsvetelina Penkova



3 a. Underlines that despite the high level of protection granted by the GDPR, individuals suffer from the lack of appropriate technical standards and tools empowering the simple exercise of those rights; emphasises that individuals should be supported in enforcing their rights granted by the GDPR with regard to the use of the data they generate;

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3 a. Notes that the data economy and the cloud infrastructure market is currently dominated by a restricted number of non-European players, acting

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as de facto rule-setters; stresses that this raises concerns over compliance with EU rules on data protection, market practices, security and users' control over strategic data;

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Amendment 100Eva Maydell, Edina Tóth, Salvatore De Meo, Pilar del Castillo Vera, Ivan Štefanec, Isabel Wiseler-Lima, Maria da Graça Carvalho, Sara Skyttedal, Tomas Tobé, Gheorghe Falcă, Henna Virkkunen, Angelika Niebler



3 a. Believes that achieving the goals of the Data Strategy shall not create market distortions within the Union; underlines that future legislation must be designed to facilitate technological development, innovation, data access, interoperability and data portability;

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3 a. Highlights the need to prevent gender and cultural biases being inadvertently included in algorithms, AI systems and applications and calls for diverse teams of developers and engineers working alongside key societal actors;

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3a. Emphasises the importance of the concept of individual responsibility in connection with the transmission of data, whether personal or public;

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3 b. Underlines the importance of achieving a high level of overall digital literacy, including training on how to collect, handle, share and analyse data in compliance with GDPR and other relevant requirements; supports the promotion of educational curricula providing universal basic knowledge in statistics and econometrics as well as promoting public-awareness activities concerning the societal, legal, and ethical impact of data-driven societies, including AI;

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3 b. Is of the opinion that some technologies need particular attentions and legal safeguards while some others, even with clear check and balances, have a detrimental effect on society, especially in the hand of an authoritarian regime; invites to always reflect upon ethical framework of AI before developing any technology;

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4. Notes that a well-built data society benefits all, empowers workers instead of lowering their working conditions, and does not lead to inequality or digital gaps;

4. Notes that a well-built data society may benefit all, empower workers instead of lowering their working conditions, and lead to equality and narrowed digital gaps; insists that, for this goal to be achieved, the EU needs to provide a legal and empowering European framework based on human rights, and therefore including labour and trade union rights and ethical rules; insists on maintaining and reinforcing workers’ protection, preventing disproportionate and undue surveillance at work, prohibiting discriminatory treatments on the basis of biased algorithms, and preventing abuse of data protection and privacy, ensuring compliance and going beyond GDPR and maintaining their privacy;

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4. Notes that a well-built data society benefits all, empowers workers rather than lowering their working conditions, and can bridge the existing inequality and digital gaps without creating new ones; highlights in this context the specific needs of vulnerable groups such as people with disabilities, elderly people, people with fewer opportunities, refugees and others;

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4. Notes that a well-built data society benefits all, empowers workers instead of lowering their working conditions, secures the role and needs of SMEs vis à vis large multinationals, firmly supports local communities and does not lead to inequality or digital gaps;

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4. Notes that a well-built data society benefits all, which rules out any possibility of mass surveillance, empowers workers instead of lowering their working conditions, and does not lead to restrictions on freedoms, inequality or digital gaps;

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Amendment 109Eva Maydell, Salvatore De Meo, Pilar del Castillo Vera, Pascal Arimont, Ivan Štefanec, Isabel Wiseler-Lima, Maria da Graça Carvalho, Sara Skyttedal, Tomas Tobé, Gheorghe Falcă, Henna Virkkunen, Angelika Niebler




4. Notes that a well-built data society benefits all, empowers workers, start-ups and SMEs, creates quality employment, facilitates economic growth and innovation, instead of lowering working conditions, and does not lead to inequality or digital gaps;

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Amendment 110Patrizia Toia, Romana Jerković, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Nicolás González Casares, Maria-Manuel Leitão-Marques, Miapetra Kumpula-Natri



4. Notes that a well-built data society benefits all, empowers workers instead of

4. Notes that a well-built data society benefits all, empowers workers instead of

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lowering their working conditions, and does not lead to inequality or digital gaps;

lowering their working conditions, and does not lead to inequality or digital gaps and also aims to improve the quality of life of the citizens;

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4. Notes that a 21st century data-driven society should be designed in a way to benefit all, empowering citizens, consumers, workers, entrepreneurs, researchers and to prevent inequality or digital gaps;

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5. Stresses that the increasing volume, development, storage and processing of industrial and public data in the Union is a source of growth and innovation that should be tapped; believes that this growth can be enhanced via a level playing field and strong multi-player fair market economy;

5. Stresses that the increasing volume, development, storage and processing of industrial and public data in the Union is a source of growth and innovation that should be tapped; believes that this growth can be enhanced via a level playing field and strong multi-player fair market economy; notes that data is becoming increasingly valued by the market and its observers; recalls, for example, that the McKinsey Global Institute, in a report on

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Big Data, estimated the value that can be created by Big Data at EUR 250 billion in public administrations in Europe; recalls also that, according to the Boston Consulting Group, personal data collected from European consumers would have been worth EUR 315 billion in 2011 and could in future create value worth 8% of European GDP from 2020 onwards;

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5. Stresses that the increasing volume, development, sharing, storage and processing of industrial and public data in the Union is a source of growth and innovation that should be tapped; believes that this growth can be enhanced via a level playing field and strong multi-player fair, competitive and open market economy; considers it crucial to ensure legal consistency of future proposals related to data with relevant existing legislation and international rules;

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Amendment 114Eva Maydell, Edina Tóth, Pilar del Castillo Vera, Ivan Štefanec, Isabel Wiseler-Lima, Maria da Graça Carvalho, Sara Skyttedal, Tomas Tobé, Gheorghe Falcă, Angelika Niebler, Henna Virkkunen


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5. Stresses that the increasing volume, development, storage and processing of industrial and public data in the Union is a source of growth and innovation that should be tapped; believes that this growth can be enhanced via a level playing field and strong multi-player fair market economy, which fully respects the technological-neutrality principle;

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5. Stresses that the increasing volume, development, storage and processing of industrial and public data in the Union is a source of commercial opportunity and innovation that should be tapped; believes that this opportunity can only be secured by ensuring a level playing field, fair market access for actors of all sizes and competitive markets;

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Amendment 116Miapetra Kumpula-Natrion behalf of the S&D Group



5. Stresses that the increasing volume, development, storage and processing of

5. Stresses that the increasing volume, development, storage and processing of

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industrial and public data in the Union is a source of growth and innovation that should be tapped; believes that this growth can be enhanced via a level playing field and strong multi-player fair market economy;

industrial and public data in the Union is a source of growth and innovation that should be tapped; believes that this growth can be enhanced via a level playing field, interoperability and strong multi-player fair market economy;

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5. Stresses that the increasing volume, development, storage and processing of industrial and public data in the Union is a source of sustainable growth and innovation that should be tapped; believes that this growth can be enhanced via a level playing field and strong multi-player fair market economy;

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5 a. Stresses that in line with the GDPR principle of purpose limitation the sharing of data shall be limited to non-personal, e.g. commercial or industrial data, or securely and effectively anonymised personal data, including in mixed data sets;

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Amendment 119Eva Maydell, Edina Tóth, Pilar del Castillo Vera, Pascal Arimont, Ivan Štefanec, Isabel Wiseler-Lima, Maria da Graça Carvalho, Sara Skyttedal, Tomas Tobé, Gheorghe Falcă, Henna Virkkunen, Angelika Niebler, Salvatore De Meo



5 a. Highlights the role of European start-ups, SMEs in creation of economic growth and jobs, as well as the current market imbalances in access to data;

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6. Stresses that the Union’s data strategy must support sustainability, the Green Deal and Union’s climate targets;

6. Stresses that the Union’s data strategy must support and contribute as much as possible to sustainability, the Green Deal and Union’s climate targets; urges to take appropriate measures to reduce the ICT sector's environmental footprint and greenhouse gas emissions, accompanied by detailed impact assessments, including by preventing planned obsolescence and by improving the energy efficiency of data centres; stresses that the Union's data strategy must also be in line with the objectives of the SME and Industrial Strategy to make sure that our industries are at the forefront of the digital transformation and are able to compete fully at global level;

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6. Stresses that the Union’s data strategy must support sustainability, the Green Deal and Union’s climate targets; notes that the ability to process and better use data has significant potential for reducing emission of greenhouse gases throughout all sectors; however, points out that exponential data growth and data processing needs to be developed in a way that it does not substantially increase ICT’s carbon footprint;

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6. Stresses that the Union’s data strategy must support sustainability, the Green Deal and Union’s climate targets, including climate neutrality by 2050; recalls the goal of 60 % reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 2030;

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Amendment 123Eva Maydell, Edina Tóth, Salvatore De Meo, Pilar del Castillo Vera, Pascal Arimont, Ivan Štefanec, Isabel Wiseler-Lima, Maria da Graça Carvalho, Sara Skyttedal,

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6. Stresses that the Union’s data strategy must support economic growth, innovation sustainability, the Green Deal and Union’s climate targets, as well as the resilient recovery of the European economy;

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6. Stresses that the Union’s data strategy must have sustainability at its core and be an enabler for the Green Deal and the Union’s climate targets;

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6. Stresses that the Union’s data strategy must contribute to sustainability, and be an enabler for the Green Deal and Union’s climate targets;

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Amendment 126Patrizia Toia, Romana Jerković, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Ivo Hristov, Nicolás González Casares, Eva Kaili, Maria-Manuel Leitão-Marques, Miapetra Kumpula-Natri




6. Stresses that the Union’s data strategy must support sustainability, the Green Deal, Union’s climate targets and social inclusion;

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6. Stresses that the Union's data strategy must support competitiveness and a healthy and sustainable economy for the Union;

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Amendment 128Evžen Tošenovský, Margarita de la Pisa Carrión




6. Stresses that the Union’s data strategy should go hand in hand with the twin transition;

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6 a. Urges the Commission to perform in advance an in-depth evaluation and mapping of the existing legislation covering data sharing aspects; assess if adjustments or additional requirements are needed to support the European data economy and safeguard fair competition for all affected actors, while avoiding legal overlaps with existing and new legislation on the EU Data Strategy;

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Amendment 130Angelika Niebler



6 a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to accompany all efforts within the data strategy with complementary communication efforts in order to create awareness for the advantages of e.g. data pooling for the economy; those communication efforts should be especially targeted at SMEs and start-ups;

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6 a. Stresses that, in light of the growing carbon footprint of the collection, storage and sharing of data, the energy and resource efficiency of data infrastructure must be dramatically improved to achieve climate neutrality of the digital sector as soon as possible;

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6 a. Supports the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) 2020-2024 Strategy based on three pillars : foresight, action and solidarity 1a ;_________________1a https://edps.europa.eu/edps-strategy-2020-2024/

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Amendment 133Nicola Danti, Andrus Ansip, Mauri Pekkarinen, Christophe Grudler, Valérie Hayer, Susana Solís Pérez, Dragoș Pîslaru, Iskra Mihaylova, Klemen Grošelj


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6 a. Calls on the Commission to clarify further the notion of "public good" and "public interest" purposes for utilisation of data;

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Amendment 134Eva Maydell, Pilar del Castillo Vera, Ivan Štefanec, Maria da Graça Carvalho, Sara Skyttedal, Tomas Tobé, Gheorghe Falcă, Angelika Niebler, Henna Virkkunen, Isabel Wiseler-Lima



6 b. Notes that European companies operating in some third countries are increasingly faced with unjustified barriers and digital restrictions; welcomes the Commission’s commitment to address, in bilateral discussions and international fora, including the WTO, and in EU Trade Policy, unjustified obstacles to international data flows;

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7. Supports the creation of a data governance framework for common European data spaces, covering interoperability, sharing, access and portability of data, to enhance the flow and reuse of industrial and public data;

7. Supports the creation of a data governance framework for common European data spaces, covering transparency, interoperability, sharing, access and portability of data, to enhance the flow and reuse of industrial and public

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data; further supports the creation of a concept of data of general interest in the upcoming framework, in particular for private data whose opening is justified for public research purposes (energy production and consumption, biodiversity data, climate data, etc.), in accordance with the work of the Internet Governance Forum 1a ;_________________1a https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/content/igf-2019-ws-191-public-interest-data-where-are-we-to-do-what

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Amendment 136Eva Maydell, Pilar del Castillo Vera, Ivan Štefanec, Isabel Wiseler-Lima, Maria da Graça Carvalho, Sara Skyttedal, Tomas Tobé, Gheorghe Falcă, Angelika Niebler, Henna Virkkunen




7. Supports the creation of a data governance framework for common European data spaces, covering interoperability, sharing, access and portability of data, to enhance the flow and reuse of industrial and public data; stresses that data portability principle should take into account differences in IT providers' infrastructures and practices, enabling users to port their data, noting that infrastructure and practises might change from one provider to another;

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Amendment 137Josianne Cutajar, Miapetra Kumpula-Natri, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Carlos Zorrinho, Łukasz Kohut, Romana Jerković, Ivo Hristov

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7. Supports the creation of a data governance framework for common European data spaces, covering interoperability, sharing, access and portability of data, to enhance the flow and reuse of industrial and public data; urges the governance framework to promote the “data for the public good” principle while always protecting the rights of EU citizens;

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Amendment 138Nicola Danti, Andrus Ansip, Mauri Pekkarinen, Christophe Grudler, Valérie Hayer, Susana Solís Pérez, Dragoș Pîslaru, Bart Groothuis, Iskra Mihaylova, Klemen Grošelj




7. Supports the creation of a data governance framework for common European data spaces subject to EU rules and covering interoperability, sharing, access, portability and security of data, to enhance the flow and reuse of industrial and public data both at cross-sector and sector-specific level;

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7. Supports the creation of a data governance framework for common European data spaces, covering interoperability, sharing, access and portability of data, to enhance the flow and reuse of industrial and non-personal or securely anonymised public sector data;

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7. Encourages the creation of a simple data governance framework for common European data spaces, covering interoperability, voluntary sharing, access and portability of data, to enhance the flow and reuse of industrial and public data;

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7 a. Stresses that the deployment of European data spaces should prioritise crucial economic sectors, the public sector and other areas of public interest and calls on the Commission to assess the addition of further data spaces in the future; considers that European data

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spaces should serve as an example for transparency and proper balance between all interests at stake;

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7 a. Stresses that an ambitious regulatory framework can stimulate innovation in the AI sector by giving clear limits and standards, in particular for SMEs; further underlines that there is no such thing as overregulation when it comes to defending fundamental rights;

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7 a. Stresses the need to further clarify the GDPR to provide companies with legal certanty and allow them to fully develop the potential of data economy; encourages Member States to coordinate and further harmonise their national data strategies;

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7 a. Stresses the importance of implementing an EU-level master data management strategy to ensure the uniformity, accuracy, stewardship, semantic consistency and accountability of data shared by Member States;

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7 b. Underlines the specificity of the health sector; agrees with the Commission that citizens should have secure access to a comprehensive electronic record of data concerning their health and that they should retain control over personal data concerning their health and be able to share them securely with authorised third parties, while unauthorised access should be prohibited, in compliance with data protection legislation; furthermore affirms that data should be stored on secure local servers and processed by independent bodies;

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7 c. Stresses that insurance companies or any other service provider should not be allowed to use data from e-health applications for the purpose of discriminating in the setting of prices, as this would run counter to the fundamental right of access to health1a;_________________1a https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/TA-9-2019-0105_FR.html

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Motion for a resolutionParagraph 7 d (new)


7 d. Recalls, in line with GDPR, the recommendations issued by many national data protection authorities to reserve hosting and data management services in the health sector to entities under the exclusive jurisdiction of the European Union;

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7 e. Recalls the position of the EDPS following its own-initiative investigation into EU institutions’ use of Microsoft products and services, notably pointing out that the discretion that Microsoft had, amounted to a broad right for Microsoft to act as a controller; supports the idea that given the EU institutions’ role as public service institutions, the EU institutions should act to retain controllership;

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8. Insists that the data governance model be built on a decentralised data operating environment;

8. Insists that the data governance model be built on a decentralised data operating environment; believes that the EU should develop its own adequate capacity for cloud services and facilitate the emergence of a decentralised, interoperable ecosystem of data governance that enables efficient use of local infrastructures such as edge computing; supports the further uptake of decentralised digital technologies such as blockchain which enables individuals and organisations to manage data flows based on self-determination;

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8. Calls on the Commission to assess thoroughly how to build the data governance model; notes that both centralised and decentralised data operating environments entail advantages and risks; acknowledges that the decentralised model offers more guarantees in terms of privacy safeguards and data minimisation, as less data is stored in central servers; stresses that the assessment should duly take into account the cybersecurity aspect;

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Amendment 151Eva Maydell, Edina Tóth, Pilar del Castillo Vera, Salvatore De Meo, Angelika Niebler, Pascal Arimont, Ivan Štefanec, Isabel Wiseler-Lima, Maria da Graça Carvalho, Sara Skyttedal, Tomas Tobé, Gheorghe Falcă, Henna Virkkunen




8. Insists that the data governance model must be built on a decentralised data operating environment accessible to all market participants, both commercial and non-commercial, including start-ups and SMEs, enabling an ecosystem where data can be accessed and used in a trusted, safe and secure environment; insists that cybersecurity standards shall be coordinated with EU ENISA and the EU Cybersecurity Competence Centre;

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8. Insists that the data governance model be built on a decentralised data operating environment, taking advantages of an open data policy and collaboration opportunities in regional clusters of SMEs, research institutions, public administrations and civil society;

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8. Insists that the data governance model be built on a decentralised data operating environment; further recommends to use as much as possible open source software in all public administrations of the EU;

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8. Insists that the data governance 8. Insists that the data governance

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model be built on a decentralised data operating environment;

model be built on a decentralised data operating environment; and supports the creation and emergence of interoperable data ecosystems when moving towards edge;

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8 a. Believes that data management services and data architectures designed to store, use, re-use and curate data are critical components of the value chain of the European digital economy; stresses that costs related to access and storage of data determine the speed, depth and scale of the adoption of digital infrastructures and products, especially for SMEs and start-ups;

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Amendment 156Dragoș Pîslaru, Susana Solís Pérez, Klemen Grošelj



9. Calls for the creation of a Commission-led body that would set common Union-wide guidelines on data governance; calls for citizens, civil society and businesses to be adequately represented in the governance of data spaces;

9. Calls on the Commission to set common Union-wide guidelines on data governance and to assess thoroughly the need to create a Commission-led body in charge of it, that should operate in close connection with bodies that are responsible for AI and by using existing staffing; Calls on the Commission to

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exchange regularly with all stakeholders such as citizens, civil society and businesses to improve the governance of data spaces;

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9. Calls for a Commission-led body or DG that would set common Union-wide regulations on data governance; calls for citizens, civil society and businesses to be adequately represented in the governance of data spaces; is opposed to the creation of a new agency following the report of October from the Court of Auditors 1a ; advises current DGs to enhance their cooperation with the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS);_________________1a https://www.eca.europa.eu/fr/Pages/NewsItem.aspx?nid=14564

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Amendment 158Eva Maydell, Edina Tóth, Pilar del Castillo Vera, Ivan Štefanec, Isabel Wiseler-Lima, Maria da Graça Carvalho, Sara Skyttedal, Tomas Tobé, Gheorghe Falcă, Henna Virkkunen, Angelika Niebler



9. Calls for the creation of a 9. Calls for the creation of a

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Commission-led body that would set common Union-wide guidelines on data governance; calls for citizens, civil society and businesses to be adequately represented in the governance of data spaces;

Commission-led High Level Expert Group that helps the set up of common Union-wide guidelines on data governance; calls for citizens, civil society, public bodies and businesses to be adequately represented in the governance of data spaces; stresses the importance of coordination of all regulators involved in the data economy;

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9. Calls for the creation of a Commission-led body, composed of the representatives of the Member States' authorities and relevant EU agencies and other bodies such as EDPB, BEREC, ENISA, that would set common Union-wide guidelines on a simple data governance; calls for citizens, civil society and businesses to be adequately represented in the governance of data spaces;

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9. Calls for the creation of a Commission-led body that would set common Union-wide guidelines on data governance; calls for citizens, civil society

9. Calls on the Commission to set common Union-wide guidelines on data governance and to assess thoroughly the need to create a Commission-led body in

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and businesses to be adequately represented in the governance of data spaces;

charge of it, using existing staffing; Calls on the Commission to exchange regularly with all stakeholders such as citizens, civil society and businesses to improve the governance of data spaces;

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9. Calls for the creation of a Commission-led body that would set common Union-wide principles on data governance; calls for citizens, civil society and businesses to be adequately represented in the governance of data spaces;

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10. Urges the Commission to build interoperable sectoral data spaces that follow common guidelines to avoid creating silos and preventing cross-sectoral innovations;

10. Urges the Commission to build interoperable sectoral data spaces that follow common guidelines to avoid creating silos and preventing cross-sectoral innovations; stresses that the management of sectorial data spaces should complement or be in line with requirements and procedures foreseen in sectorial existing legislation in order to

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guarantee legal certainty;

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10. Urges the Commission and Member States to build interoperable sectoral data spaces that follow common guidelines and data sharing protocols, in order to avoid creating silos preventing cross-sectoral innovations;

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10. Urges the Commission to build interoperable sectoral data spaces that follow common guidelines and legal requirements to avoid creating silos and preventing cross-sectoral innovations;

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10. Urges the Commission to build interoperable sectoral data spaces that follow common principles to avoid creating silos and preventing cross-sectoral innovations;

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10 a. Stresses that data spaces should be based on collaborative, transparent and non-discriminatory rules and should be open to all actors; calls on the Commission to strengthen its action in favour of an open explicable and inclusive data management, from access to reuse, where the reproduction of bias is effectively prevented;

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10 a. Supports the CULT opinion that calls for the development of a common European data space on cultural heritage and believes that the digitalisation of

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cultural heritage could be useful and beneficial in a wide variety of ways, including tourism and its industry 1a;_________________1a https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/CULT-PA-652540_EN.pdf

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11. Encourages the Commission to use data spaces to enhance trust, create common standards and build well-formed application programming interfaces (APIs), and to consider using pre-agreed sandboxes to test innovations;

11. Encourages the Commission to use data spaces to enhance trust, create common standards and build well-formed application programming interfaces (APIs), and to consider using pre-agreed sandboxes to test innovations and new business models as well as new data management and processing tools; considers it crucial to avoid any risk of unauthorised access to data spaces by third parties and to create tools to counter possible misconducts;

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11. Encourages the Commission to use 11. Encourages the Commission to use

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data spaces to enhance trust, create common standards and build well-formed application programming interfaces (APIs), and to consider using pre-agreed sandboxes to test innovations;

data spaces to enhance trust, create common market-led standards and build well-formed application programming interfaces (APIs) along with robust authentification mechanism, and to use pre-agreed sandboxes to test innovations; calls the Commission to present a guidance for data usage procedures in order to increase the legal certainty for private and public actors of all sizes;

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11. Encourages the Commission to use data spaces to enhance trust, create common standards, including for data anonymisation and pseudonymisation to ensure high protection of data, to build well-formed application programming interfaces (APIs), and to consider using pre-agreed, clearly specified and time-bound sandboxes to test innovations;

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11. Encourages the Commission to use data spaces to enhance trust, create common standards and build well-formed application programming interfaces (APIs),

11. Encourages the Commission to use data spaces to enhance trust, create common standards and build well-formed application programming interfaces (APIs),

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and to consider using pre-agreed sandboxes to test innovations;

and to consider using pre-agreed sandboxes to test innovations, automation and data analytics and processing platforms;

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11. Encourages the Commission to use data spaces to enhance trust, adopt common standards and build well-formed application programming interfaces (APIs), and to consider using pre-agreed sandboxes to test innovations, both in public and private sectors;

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11. Encourages the Commission to use data spaces to enhance trust, create common standards and regulations and build well-formed application programming interfaces (APIs), and to consider using pre-agreed sandboxes to test innovations;

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11 a. Believes that the creation of well-formed APIs would provide the best access to data and interoperability within the data spaces, and would also enable automatised and real-time interoperability between different services; thus calls on the Commission to promote well-formed APIs as a future-oriented technological solution, also for improving individuals’ data portability right in GDPR art 20;

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11 a. Expresses the need to foster a partnership culture between private and public sectors in data sharing, also by providing incentives, in order to achieve the full potential of data partnerships;

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11 a. Encourages the Commission to implement the „API first” principle for all public sector IT systems of Member States, that will increase the interoperability of such systems;

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12. Notes the need to help private and public sector actors to identify the data they possess and catalogue and increase the findability of data to fuel data spaces; calls on the Commission to fund initiatives to improve the findability of metadata within data spaces;

12. Notes that guidelines and frameworks resulting from the European data strategy should ensure that both private and public sector actors are able to capitalise on the data they generate and possess, increasing and incentivising the findability of data to fuel data spaces; calls on the Commission to explore initiatives to improve the findability of metadata within data spaces;

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Amendment 178Eva Maydell, Edina Tóth, Salvatore De Meo, Pilar del Castillo Vera, Ivan Štefanec, Isabel Wiseler-Lima, Maria da Graça Carvalho, Sara Skyttedal, Tomas Tobé, Gheorghe Falcă, Henna Virkkunen, Angelika Niebler



12. Notes the need to help private and public sector actors to identify the data they possess and catalogue and increase the findability of data to fuel data spaces; calls on the Commission to fund initiatives to

12. Notes the need to help private and public sector actors, especially SMEs and Start-ups, to identify the data they possess and catalogue and increase the findability of data to fuel data spaces, as well as to

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improve the findability of metadata within data spaces;

facilitate data cleansing routines; calls on the Commission to fund initiatives to improve the findability of metadata within data spaces;

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12 a. Stresses the importance of having datasets based on generally accepted taxonomies at EU level in order to facilitate the accessibility, reliability and ultimately the usability of data;

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13. Welcomes the Commission’s plans for intermediator labelling/certification for creation of interoperable data ecosystems and markets;

13. Recalls the key role that will be played by "data intermediaries" as structural enabler to pool data and organise data flows; Welcomes the Commission’s plans for intermediaries labelling/certification for creation of interoperable and non-discriminatory data ecosystems and markets open to all actors, notably in those sectors that will not be covered under the scope of Common data spaces;

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13. Welcomes the Commission’s plans for intermediator labelling/certification for creation of interoperable data ecosystems and markets; calls on the Commission to ensure interoperability by developing minimum interoperability criteria between data intermediators, which states the overall direction of interoperable network of data sharing services;

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13. Welcomes the Commission’s plans for intermediator labelling/certification for creation of interoperable data ecosystems and markets; urges the Commission to work together with European and international standard setting organisations to identify and close gaps in data standardisation;

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Amendment 183Eva Maydell, Edina Tóth, Pilar del Castillo Vera, Ivan Štefanec, Maria da Graça Carvalho, Sara Skyttedal, Isabel Wiseler-Lima, Tomas Tobé, Angelika Niebler, Henna

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13. Welcomes the Commission’s plans for intermediator labelling/certification for creation of interoperable data ecosystems;

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14. Recalls that personal and industrial data are not always separable; urges the Commission to define guidance on and practices in the utilisation of mixed data sets in industrial environments while guaranteeing privacy rules for personal data; calls on the Commission to consider creating a horizontal and cross-cutting personal data space alongside other data spaces to address the challenge of mixed data sets and empower citizens via, for example, trustworthy intermediators such as MyData operators, which store data with the consent of the owners;

14. Recalls that personal and industrial data are not always separable; considers that mixed data sets, combining personal and non-personal data, should be subject to the rules of the GDPR; urges the Commission to define guidance on and practices in the utilisation of mixed data sets in industrial environments while guaranteeing privacy rules for personal data; calls on the Commission to empower citizens via, for example, trustworthy intermediators such as MyData operators, which store data with the consent of the owners; asks the Commission to look into the sharing of non-personal data held by the private sector with NGOs, and in particular with consumer organisations, for example to improve product testing; stresses that organisations pursuing public interest objectives should have access to non-personal data to strengthen their actions;

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14. Recalls that personal and non-personal data, such as industrial data, are not always separable or difficult and costly to separate with the result that a high amount of data remains currently unused; urges the Commission to define guidance on lawful processing of data and on practices in the utilisation of mixed data sets in industrial environments, such as standardised criteria to ensure sufficient levels of anonymisation and aggregation, in accordance with data protection legislation; calls on the Commission to consider creating a horizontal and cross-cutting personal data space alongside other data spaces to address the challenge of mixed data sets and empower citizens via, for example, trustworthy intermediators such as MyData operators, which store data with the consent of the owners;

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Amendment 186Eva Maydell, Salvatore De Meo, Ivan Štefanec, Isabel Wiseler-Lima, Maria da Graça Carvalho, Sara Skyttedal, Tomas Tobé, Gheorghe Falcă, Angelika Niebler, Henna Virkkunen



14. Recalls that personal and industrial data are not always separable; urges the Commission to define guidance on and

14. Recalls that personal and industrial data are not always separable; urges the Commission to adhere to the Guidance

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practices in the utilisation of mixed data sets in industrial environments while guaranteeing privacy rules for personal data; calls on the Commission to consider creating a horizontal and cross-cutting personal data space alongside other data spaces to address the challenge of mixed data sets and empower citizens via, for example, trustworthy intermediators such as MyData operators, which store data with the consent of the owners;

provided on the Regulation (EU) 2018/1807; calls on the Commission to consider creating a horizontal and cross-cutting personal data space alongside other data spaces and empower citizens via, for example, trustworthy intermediators such as MyData operators, which store data with the consent of the owners; stresses the difference between data intermediaries and data brokers, whereas the latter has as a business model selling data for profit; calls on the Commission to encourage Member States to verify compliance of data brokers with the privacy, data protection and cybersecurity rules of the EU and support them with the necessary resources if needed;

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14. Recalls that personal and industrial data are not always separable; urges the Commission to define guidance on and practices in the utilisation of mixed data sets in industrial environments while guaranteeing privacy rules for personal data; calls on the Commission to consider creating a horizontal and cross-cutting personal data space alongside other data spaces to address the challenge of mixed data sets and empower citizens via, for example, trustworthy intermediators such as MyData operators, which store data with the consent of the owners; emphasises the need to further develop digital identities, which will enable individuals to retain ownership of their data and contribute to the establishment of safe and trustworthy

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data intermediation standards;

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14. Recalls that personal and industrial data are not always separable; urges the Commission to define principles and practices for the utilisation of mixed data sets in industrial environments while guaranteeing privacy rules for personal data; calls on the Commission to consider creating a horizontal and cross-cutting personal data space alongside other data spaces to address the challenge of mixed data sets and empower citizens via, for example, trustworthy intermediators such as MyData operators, which store data with the consent of the owners and provide adequate granularity of permissions; insists that the data spaces created as result of Union policies should include safeguards and ban profiling and advertisement uses;

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14. Recalls that personal and industrial data are not always separable; urges the

14. Recalls that personal and industrial data are not always separable; urges the

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Commission to define guidance on and practices in the utilisation of mixed data sets in industrial environments while guaranteeing privacy rules for personal data; calls on the Commission to consider creating a horizontal and cross-cutting personal data space alongside other data spaces to address the challenge of mixed data sets and empower citizens via, for example, trustworthy intermediators such as MyData operators, which store data with the consent of the owners;

Commission to define guidance on and practices in the utilisation of mixed data sets in industrial environments while guaranteeing privacy rules for personal data; calls on the Commission to consider creating a horizontal and cross-cutting personal data space alongside other data spaces to address the challenge of mixed data sets and empower citizens via, for example, trustworthy intermediators such as MyData operators, which store data with the consent of the owners; calls for further guidance by the Commission when it comes to the application of Regulation 2016/679 to mixed data sets, to ensure the full respect of data privacy;

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14. Recalls that personal and industrial data are not always separable; urges the Commission to define guidance on and practices in the utilisation of mixed data sets in industrial environments while guaranteeing privacy rules for personal data; calls on the Commission to consider creating a legislative framework and a clear definition for horizontal and cross-cutting personal data spaces alongside other data spaces to address the challenge of mixed data sets and empower citizens via, for example, trustworthy intermediators such as MyData operators, which facilitate transfers of data with the consent of the owners;

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14 a. Recalls the importance of establishing a clear definition and clear rules on "data altruism", including the possible purposes such as for the public good; stresses that data donation should be conditional on informed consent and should always be revocable;

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14a. Emphasises the importance of genuinely European data governance, and, in that connection, calls for the introduction of supervisory mechanisms which enable the EU and the Member States, at their respective levels, to decide what kinds of data are to be exchanged;

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14 a. Insists that consumers should always be able to decide who has access to their personal data and under what conditions, even for non-commercial use of the data for public interest purposes;

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Considers that the incorporation of user data into the production chains of the digital economy contributes to blurring the boundary between production and consumption; stresses that, through this activity and the data it generates, the user of an application not only helps to minimise the price he has to pay but also contributes to the production of value for other users or customers on another side of the business model;

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Motion for a resolutionSubheading 4 b (new)


Considers that in the digital economy application users are also, through their bottom-up contributions, auxiliaries to production and distribution; stresses that

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this abundance and availability, as well as the lack of remuneration for what could be considered "free work", contributes to the low marginal cost of operation and explains the exponential returns to scale inherent in the digital economy; points out, moreover, that this form of "free work" by users has enabled many digital companies to do without employees, for example in the areas of content creation or customer support;

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Motion for a resolutionSubheading 4 c (new)


Recalls that data resulting from the "free collaboration" of users through their activities are the raw material on which the digital economy feeds; stresses that data, and in particular personal data, are indeed at the heart of all business models in the digital economy; recalls that in the digital economy it is by default that user activity leaves traces and that this activity can be captured in the form of data, be it observed data, user-submitted data or inferred data;

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15. Urges the Commission to present a data act to encourage and enable an increasing B2B, B2G, G2B and G2G flow of data in all sectors;

15. Urges the Commission to present a data act to encourage and enable an increasing B2B, B2G, G2B and G2G flow of data in all sectors; stresses that often public-sector data is not in machine-readable formats; encourages the Commission to coordinate with the Member States the facilitation of sharing non-sensitive public sector-generated data sets for free, whenever possible, and in machine-readable formats, and give guidance on a common model for sharing of sensitive and non-sensitive data in accordance with the GDPR requirements;

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15. Urges the Commission to present a data act to encourage and enable an increasing B2B, B2G, G2B and G2G flow of data in all sectors; supports the creation of a concept of data of general interest in the upcoming framework, in particular for private data whose opening is justified for public research purposes (energy production and consumption, biodiversity data, climate data, etc.), in accordance with the work of the Internet Governance Forum;

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Amendment 199Nicola Danti, Andrus Ansip, Mauri Pekkarinen, Christophe Grudler, Valérie Hayer, Susana Solís Pérez, Dragoș Pîslaru, Iskra Mihaylova, Klemen Grošelj, Martina

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15. Urges the Commission to present a data act to encourage and enable an increasing and fair B2B, B2G, G2B and G2G flow of data in all sectors, inter alia clarifying rights of utilisation, notably in B2B, B2G market settings and enhancing the portability right of individuals under art 20 GDPR, avoiding lock-in effects;

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Amendment 200Patrizia Toia, Romana Jerković, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Miapetra Kumpula-Natri, Nicolás González Casares, Maria-Manuel Leitão-Marques




15. Urges the Commission to present a data act to encourage and enable an increasing B2B, B2G, G2B and G2G flow of data in all sectors for exploiting the full potential of unused industrial data ensuring cybersecurity; when personal data is tapped consumer protection and safeguarding personal data must be ensured;

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Amendment 201Eva Maydell, Edina Tóth, Pilar del Castillo Vera, Angelika Niebler, Ivan Štefanec, Isabel Wiseler-Lima, Maria da Graça Carvalho, Sara Skyttedal, Tomas Tobé, Gheorghe Falcă, Henna Virkkunen


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15 a. Underlines that competitive access to data is of outmost importance for the development of Artificial Intelligence; stresses that businesses and researchers should be given greater freedom to use data, with less regulatory interference, especially when the AI application for which the data is used does not entail high risks;

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15 a. Calls for the creation of EU guidance mechanisms for business, such as support centres for data sharing, in order to address any potential concern on data security, privacy and liability, thus facilitating the exchange of data;

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Amendment 203Eva Maydell, Pilar del Castillo Vera, Edina Tóth, Pascal Arimont, Ivan Štefanec, Isabel Wiseler-Lima, Maria da Graça Carvalho, Sara Skyttedal, Tomas Tobé, Gheorghe Falcă, Angelika Niebler, Henna Virkkunen



15 b. Emphasises that a regulatory separation is needed between high- and low-risk AI based on how the data is used; this separation must not be made on a

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sectorial basis, potentially hampering technological development in an entire sector, but instead on the way of application, in order to ensure precision in the regulatory scope and that unnecessary administrative burdens are avoided;

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15 b. Calls on the Commission to analyse the concept of data trusts as a tool in the context of B2C with the aim of empowering citizens through the choice on how to use their data;

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Amendment 205Eva Maydell, Edina Tóth, Angelika Niebler, Pilar del Castillo Vera, Pascal Arimont, Ivan Štefanec, Isabel Wiseler-Lima, Maria da Graça Carvalho, Sara Skyttedal, Tomas Tobé, Gheorghe Falcă, Henna Virkkunen



16. Encourages the Commission to facilitate voluntary data sharing schemes;

16. Encourages the Commission and Member States to facilitate voluntary data sharing schemes, through inter alia incentivising companies via fair compensation, best practices, tax incentives, public recognition programmes; encourages the Commission to work on collaborative approaches for sharing data and standardized data agreements, to enhance predictability and

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trustworthiness; stresses the importance of setting clear rules for fair competition and no free-riding in the future Data Act, intellectual property rights protection, clear rules on ownership regarding rights and obligations; compulsory data sharing schemes shall be proactive, on a case by case basis and limited in time and scope, and based on clear rules to avoid unfair competition;

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Amendment 206Josianne Cutajar, Miapetra Kumpula-Natri, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Carlos Zorrinho, Łukasz Kohut, Romana Jerković, Csaba Molnár




16. Encourages the Commission to facilitate voluntary data sharing schemes; urges the Commission to enact measures that would incentivise businesses to share their data, possibly through a reward system (win-win), with the objective of pooling vast sets of data, for it be equally accessed by EU businesses, in particular the less data rich, facilitating innovation; stresses the need for contracts to set clear obligations and liability for data aggregators when it comes to accessing, storing, sharing and processing data in order to limit the misuse of such data;

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16. Encourages the Commission to increase legal certainty for data sharing and facilitate voluntary schemes as well as more standardised contractual agreements, building on existing models and best practices, to incentivise the exchange of data, particularly for micro, SMEs and start-ups while taking duly into account the legitimate interests of companies related to trade secrets, sensitive data and Intellectual Property rights;

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16. Underlines that, instead of introducing compulsory access, voluntariness should be set as a leading principle governing the flow of business data; encourages the Commission and the Member States to facilitate voluntary data sharing schemes, including by promoting the beneficial effects and the best practices or to consider appropriate incentives;

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16. Encourages the Commission to facilitate voluntary data sharing schemes and to further explore the concepts of data donation and data altruism, defining clear, easy and secure schemes that would allow willing citizens to give access to their data for the common good;

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16. Encourages the Commission to facilitate voluntary data sharing schemes for data sharing, implementation of best-practices, as well as more standardised contractual agreements and security measures;

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16. Encourages the Commission to facilitate voluntary data sharing schemes and to create an exception for compulsory data sharing for those data of general interest;

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Amendment 212Eva Maydell, Edina Tóth, Isabel Wiseler-Lima, Pilar del Castillo Vera, Pascal Arimont, Ivan Štefanec, Maria da Graça Carvalho, Sara Skyttedal, Tomas Tobé, Gheorghe Falcă, Henna Virkkunen, Angelika Niebler



16 a. Stresses that access to data does not preclude privacy; calls on the Commission to promote the use of privacy enhancing or privacy-preserving technologies, such as differential privacy, homomorphic encryption, federated machine learning, pseudonomysation and generalisation;

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17. Notes that there are specific circumstances, such as systematic imbalances in B2B data value chains, where access to data should be compulsory e.g. via well-formed APIs;

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17. Notes that there are specific circumstances, such as systematic imbalances in B2B data value chains or specific circumstances of overriding public interest, where access to data should be compulsory e.g. via well-formed APIs; highlights that such imbalances are present in different sectors, such as e-commerce services, transport and tourism, where a small number of digital platforms, often from third countries, accumulate large amounts of sensitive data, while achieving an essential comparative advantage over EU businesses;

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17. Underlines that market imbalances resulting from the high concentration of information and provision of data-related services diminish wider data access and use, not only putting SMEs at a disadvantageous position but also increasing risks to competition in adjacent and emerging markets in the digital economy; notes that there are specific circumstances, such as systematic imbalances in B2B data value chains, where access to data should be compulsory e.g. via well-formed APIs;

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Nicola Danti, Andrus Ansip, Mauri Pekkarinen, Christophe Grudler, Valérie Hayer, Susana Solís Pérez, Dragoș Pîslaru, Bart Groothuis, Iskra Mihaylova, Klemen Grošelj




17. Notes that there are specific circumstances, such as systematic imbalances in B2B data value chains, including in contractual agreements, where access to data should be compulsory e.g. via APIs that ensure equal access to all players or implementing competition rules to counter business-to-business unfair or illegal practices, without altering the level playing field;

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17. Notes that there are specific circumstances, such as systematic imbalances in B2B data value chains, where access to data should be compulsory e.g. via well-formed APIs; encourages therefore the Commission to support European SMEs in the face of GAFAM;

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17 a. Notes that concentration of information restricts competition and increases entry barriers to the market; notes that B2B contractual agreements do not guarantee adequate access to data for SMEs, for reasons of asymmetries in negotiation power or expertise;

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17 a. Considers it important to guarantee that technical support is provided to companies, especially micro, SMEs and start-ups, both at national and European level to enhance the use and sharing of data;

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18. Calls on the Commission to examine actors’ rights to access data they have been involved in generating;

18. Calls on the Commission to examine all the rights of actors in society to access data they have been involved in generating; considers that access to co-generated data should be provided in a

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manner that respects fundamental rights, supports a level playing field and fosters the involvement of the European social partners even in the company level; stresses that such access rights must be made technically possible and granted through standardised interfaces such as well-formed APIs;

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18. Calls on the Commission to examine actors’ rights to access data they have been involved in generating and clarify rights of those actors to participate in the economic value created by applications trained using data they have been involved in generating;

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18. Calls on the Commission to examine actors’ rights to access data they have been involved in generating and improve their awareness;

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18. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to defend actors’ rights to access data they have been involved in generating;

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Amendment 224Eva Maydell, Edina Tóth, Salvatore De Meo, Sara Skyttedal, Pilar del Castillo Vera, Pascal Arimont, Ivan Štefanec, Isabel Wiseler-Lima, Gheorghe Falcă, Maria da Graça Carvalho, Tomas Tobé, Henna Virkkunen, Angelika Niebler




18. Calls on the Commission to examine actors’ rights and obligations to access data they have been involved in generating;

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18 a. Insists that workers should have a right to an explanation of the decisions taken by algorithms in order to reduce the

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uncertainty and opacity which are detrimental to the long-term well-being of workers; calls on the Commission and the Member States to legislate to this end; urges the Commission to propose a legislative initiative concerning platform workers in order to provide them with the legal protection necessary for their physical and mental well-being;

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18 b. Insists that industrial and collaborative robots must respect the health, safety and physical or ergonomic needs of workers; stresses that this implies, inter alia, the integration of data protection requirements into machines and work processes from the design stage and the protection of data by default;

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19. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to lead by example and provide real-time services and a policy based on real-time data;

19. Calls on all EU Institutions and the Member States as well as local and regional administrations to lead by example and provide real-time services and

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a policy based on real-time data; stresses that digitisalisation represents an opportunity for Public Administrations (PAs) to reduce unnecessary administrative burdens and existing silos among public bodies and authorities, in order to manage effectively citizens' data;

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19. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to lead by example and provide real-time services and a policy based on real-time data;

19. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to lead by example and provide real-time services and a policy based on real-time data provided exclusively by European providers in order to be coherent with its defense of digital sovereignty;

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20. Calls for more and better secondary uses of anonymised personal data, especially in G2B/G2G exchanges, to boost innovation, research and services;

20. Calls for improved secondary uses of anonymised personal data, especially in G2B/G2G exchanges, to boost innovation, research and services, while ensuring that such secondary uses do not lead to de-anonymization of personal data;

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20. Calls for more and better secondary uses of anonymised personal data and use of the developed privacy-enhancing technologies, especially in G2B/G2G exchanges, to boost innovation, research and services;

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20. Calls for more and better secondary uses of anonymised personal data, especially in G2B/G2G exchanges, to boost innovation and research and improve services in the public interest;

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20. Calls for more and better secondary uses of anonymised personal data, especially in G2G exchanges, to boost innovation, research and services;

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20 a. Calls on the Commission to assess which datasets are essential for the ecological transition, inter alia in the energy sector to ensure the transition to renewable energies, the transportation sector and the carbon footprint of public and private entities; calls on the Commission to consider extending the scope of the high value datasets defined in Directive (EU) 2019/1024 on Open Data to private actors;

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20 b. Calls for the Commission to analyse the benefits and drawbacks of making the de-anonymisation of personal data a punishable offence;

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21. Stresses the need to avoid service provider or technological lock-ins for publicly collected data; calls for public procurement processes and funding programmes to include data access and interoperability requirements;

21. Stresses the role of the public sector in fostering an innovative and competitive data economy; stresses in this context the need to avoid service provider or technological lock-in for public data collection processes and calls for all Union public procurement processes and funding programmes to include open data access, mandatory interoperability and portability requirements, as well as to promote the use of open-source software and hardware; calls in this context, upon the Commission to introduce a ‘European interoperability pledge’ which national, regional and local public authorities shall be invited to join;

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21. Stresses the need to avoid service provider or technological lock-ins for publicly collected data; calls for public procurement processes and funding programmes to include data access and interoperability requirements; strongly recommends the creation of a European Buy Act compelling public procurement to a minimum threshold of European digital

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materials, devices or services;

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21. Stresses the need to avoid service provider or technological lock-ins for publicly collected data or for data of general public interest collected by private entities; supports the use of open standards, open source platforms and open, well-formed APIs; calls for public procurement processes and funding programmes to include data access and interoperability requirements;

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Amendment 238Patrizia Toia, Romana Jerković, Nicolás González Casares, Maria-Manuel Leitão-Marques




21. Stresses the need to avoid service provider or technological lock-ins for publicly collected data; calls for public procurement processes and funding programmes to include data access and interoperability requirements based on technical standards;

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21 a. Highlights the need to protect and promote access for SMEs and in particular start-ups to public procurement processes in the context of the digitalisation of public administrations to foster the creation of a dynamic and competitive European digital sector; in this context calls for allocating at least 10% of digital Union public procurement contracts to SMEs and start-ups;

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Amendment 240Josianne Cutajar, Miapetra Kumpula-Natri, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Carlos Zorrinho, Łukasz Kohut, Romana Jerković, Nicolás González Casares, Csaba Molnár



21 a. Calls for improved coordination among Member States to facilitate the cross border flow of data across sectors, through government and stakeholder dialogue, with the objective of establishing a common way of collecting data based on the principles of findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability;

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21 a. Stresses that algorithms and machines that have the capacity to learn and evolve should be designed transparently and respectfully from the outset, paying particular attention to their implications for the physical and mental well-being of workers and consumers;

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21 a. Calls on the Commission to further define in B2G data sharing under which circumstances and conditions the private sector should be obliged to share data with the public sector due to the nature of the data as a common good;

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21 b. Calls upon the Commission to expand support for SMEs and start-ups in navigating the existing and future

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regulatory complexity with technical and legal clinics, for example in the context of Digital Innovation Hubs under the Digital Europe Programme;

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22. Reminds the Commission and the Member States to respect Open Data Directive objectives when negotiating the implementing act on high-value data sets; calls for these data sets to include inter alia a list of company and business registers;

22. Calls on the Member States to fully implement the Open Data Directive, including by improving the publication of data, in terms of quality, timing and categories, and calls on the Commission and the Member States to respect its objectives when negotiating the implementing act on high-value data sets; Stresses the importance both for economy and society of wide reuse of public sector data free of charge which should be - to the extent possible - 'real-time' or at least up-to-date, easy to access and process thanks to machine-readable and user-friendly formats; calls for these data sets to include inter alia a list of company and business registers;

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Amendment 245Eva Maydell, Henna Virkkunen, Edina Tóth, Pilar del Castillo Vera, Ivan Štefanec, Isabel Wiseler-Lima, Maria da Graça Carvalho, Sara Skyttedal, Tomas Tobé, Gheorghe Falcă, Angelika Niebler


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22. Reminds the Commission and the Member States to fully implement Open Data Directive objectives in word and spirit when negotiating the implementing act on high-value data sets; calls for these data sets to include inter alia a list of company and business registers, while preserving the flexibility for its update; calls on the Commission to provide a better link between those high-value data sets and the common data spaces within the forthcoming data legislation;

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22. Reminds the Commission and the Member States to respect Open Data Directive objectives when negotiating the implementing act on high-value data sets; calls for these data sets to include inter alia a list of company and business registers, as well as all data sets that are relevant to ensuring the transition to climate neutrality by at least 2050;

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Amendment 247Andrius Kubilius, Rasa Juknevičienė



22. Reminds the Commission and the 22. Reminds the Commission and the

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Member States to respect Open Data Directive objectives when negotiating the implementing act on high-value data sets; calls for these data sets to include inter alia a list of company and business registers;

Member States to respect Open Data Directive objectives when negotiating the implementing act on high-value data sets; calls for these data sets to include inter alia a list of company, business registers, public procurement and other data sets pertinent to well functioning of the EU;

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Amendment 248Patrizia Toia, Romana Jerković, Miapetra Kumpula-Natri, Maria-Manuel Leitão-Marques



22 a. Calls for fair and transparent contractual conditions to be respected for all market players. Users and consumers should also have the right to always know the location of their data. In the event that an EU operator uses cloud services located in non-EU countries, it is important to ensure the application of as high level of legal protection as in EU in the event of disputes, including those relating to intellectual property;

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22 a. Calls on the Commission to establish an open and interoperable ESG (Environmental, Social & Governance) data register on corporate sustainability

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and responsibility performance that would improve the comparability and transparency of companies’ sustainability and responsibility actions, and contribute to efficient implementation of the Green Deal goals; calls on the Commission to identify ESG data as high-value data;

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Amendment 250Angelika Niebler



22 a. Emphasises that common standards play a key role in further promoting the data economy, in sharing and exchanging data, including data interoperability and portability; therefore encourages the Commission to facilitate - in close cooperation with Member States and relevant stakeholders - the definition of common standards for data to maximise the economic and academic benefit from and accessibility of shared data spaces;

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22 a. Encourages the Commission to extend the scope of the Open Data Directive to additional public data sets and to implement a principle of implicit digital transparency of public sector data,

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that will encourage Member States to implicitly publish existent digital raw data in real-time;

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22 a. Calls on the Commission to introduce a temporary ban on foreign takeovers of European AI and robotics companies that are currently undervalued or have commercial problems due to the coronavirus crisis;

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Amendment 253Eva Maydell, Edina Tóth, Pascal Arimont, Pilar del Castillo Vera, Ivan Štefanec, Isabel Wiseler-Lima, Maria da Graça Carvalho, Sara Skyttedal, Gheorghe Falcă, Tomas Tobé, Angelika Niebler, Henna Virkkunen



22 a. Encourages the Commission to examine the potential of open standards in order to achieve interoperability within and across the data spaces;

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22 b. Supports the Commission in establishing a list of assets and companies in "critical" areas, such as health, medical research, biotechnology, digital technology, artificial intelligence, robotics and infrastructure essential to our security and public order; calls for a threshold to be set in order to prevent the majority acquisition by foreign companies of companies in critical areas;

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Amendment 255Patrizia Toia, Miapetra Kumpula-Natri, Romana Jerković, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Nicolás González Casares, Eva Kaili, Maria-Manuel Leitão-Marques



22 b. Underlines the importance of defining a framework of rules capable of reconciling a broad and harmonised intellectual property protection with the sharing of data (original, derived and co-generated);

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Amendment 256Eva Maydell, Edina Tóth, Angelika Niebler, Pilar del Castillo Vera, Ivan Štefanec, Isabel Wiseler-Lima, Maria da Graça Carvalho, Sara Skyttedal, Gheorghe Falcă, Tomas Tobé, Henna Virkkunen


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22 b. Calls on the Commission to examine opportunities for data curation at scale;

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22 c. Calls for the establishment of a duty to explain the decisions taken by AI;

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23. Calls on the Commission and the Member States, in order to strengthen the Union’s technological sovereignty, to work on technologies that facilitate data sharing and analytics, and to invest in capacity building and high-impact projects to promote research, innovation and deployment of digital technologies;

23. Calls on the Commission and the Member States, in order to strengthen the Union’s technological sovereignty, to work on technologies that are made within the EU, facilitate data sharing and analytics, and to invest in capacity building and high-impact projects to promote research, innovation and deployment of digital technologies; recommends the creation of a European Buy Act compelling public procurement to a minimum threshold of European materials or devices;

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23. Calls on the Commission and the Member States, in order to strengthen the Union’s technological sovereignty, to work on technologies that facilitate data sharing and analytics, and to invest in capacity building and high-impact projects to promote research, innovation, skills development and deployment of digital technologies while improving interconnection levels, digital connectivity and access, including in rural areas;

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23. Calls on the Commission and the Member States, in order to strengthen the Union’s technological sovereignty, to work on technologies, including high capacity infrastructures that boost connectivity and facilitate data sharing and analytics, and to invest in capacity building and high-impact projects to promote research, innovation and deployment of digital technologies;

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23. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to facilitate the development of digital technologies in the Union by investing in capacity building and high-impact projects to promote research, innovation and deployment of digital technologies;

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23. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to make the Union’s technological sovereignty a reality at long last, to work on purely European technologies that facilitate data sharing and analytics, and to invest in capacity building and high-impact projects to promote research, innovation and deployment of digital technologies;

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Amendment 263Eva Maydell, Edina Tóth, Pilar del Castillo Vera, Pascal Arimont, Ivan Štefanec, Isabel Wiseler-Lima, Maria da Graça Carvalho, Sara Skyttedal, Tomas Tobé, Gheorghe Falcă, Henna Virkkunen, Angelika Niebler

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23. Calls on the Commission and the Member States, in order to strengthen the Union’s technological sovereignty, to promote research and innovation work on technologies that facilitate data sharing and analytics, and to invest in capacity building and high-impact projects, innovation and the deployment of digital technologies;

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23. Calls on the Commission and the Member States, in order to strengthen the Union’s open technological sovereignty, to work on technologies that facilitate data sharing and analytics, and to invest in capacity building and high-impact projects to promote research, innovation and deployment of digital technologies;

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23 a. Stresses that a common

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denominator should be taken as the basis for digital taxation for the different business models in all sectors; considers that data derived from user activity constitute precisely this common basis for the entire digital economy; calls on the Commission, without waiting for the outcome of the international negotiations on the taxation of digital business profits, to submit a proposal for taxation based on the use by companies of the data they collect by means of regular and systematic monitoring of user activity and applications; considers that the material and territorial scope of such taxation should be defined as all companies, irrespective of their State of establishment, which use data which they collect from a large number of users located in the Union; considers that, by means of such taxation based on data collection, the Union would be pursuing the general interest objective of strengthening the protection of public freedoms through the reappropriation by users of their personal data;

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23a. Draws attention to the high energy cost of storing data in data centres; proposes, in the context of the ethical assessment of data management and the development of AI, and in parallel with the initiatives taken by GAFAM, that the EU consider setting up European 'green data centres' which would guarantee its independence as regards data collection and management and, at the same time, ensure that data storage is ethical and

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sustainable;

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23 a. Recalls that for citizens and businesses to fully benefit from the data revolution without being left behind, there is an urgent need to develop and reinforce the digital infrastructure in the EU and especially in most peripheral areas where the population suffers from a digital gap and often lacks access to the most basic digital equipment and infrastructures, such as broadband connections;

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24. Recalls that the success of the Union’s data and AI strategies depends on the wider ICT ecosystem, closing the digital gap, developing the IoT, fibre, 5G, 6G, quantum, edge computing, block chain and high-performance computing;

24. Recalls that the success of the Union’s data and AI strategies depends on the wider ICT ecosystem, closing the digital gap, developing the IoT, fibre, quantum, edge computing, block chain and high-performance computing; recalls that all development of technologies should be properly assessed, bearing in mind its social utility, preceded by a broad public debate and in respect of national democratic scrutiny and votes; further stresses that this is a precondition to avoid

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technophobia; expresses its worriedness via a vis the lack of public debate and impact assessment, notably on environnement, before launching 5G deployment;

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24. Recalls that the success of the Union’s data and AI strategies depends on the wider ICT ecosystem, algorithmic transparency, closing the digital gap, developing the IoT, communication technologies, quantum and edge computing, distributed ledger technologies and high-performance computing in an energy efficient manner; calls on the Commission to promote the development of specialised and niche cloud services and applications, including industrial IoT and AI, as well as visual processing technology;

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24. Recalls that the success of the Union’s data and AI strategies depends on the wider ICT ecosystem, closing the

24. Recalls that the success of the Union’s data and AI strategies depends on the wider ICT ecosystem, closing the

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digital gap, developing the IoT, fibre, 5G, 6G, quantum, edge computing, block chain and high-performance computing;

digital gap, developing the IoT, fibre, 5G, 6G, quantum, edge computing, block chain and high-performance computing; underlines that technological advancement based on data processing and the interconnectedness of digital products and services must be complemented with legally binding ethical standards to mitigate threats to privacy and data protection;

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24. Recalls that the success of the Union’s data and AI strategies depends on the wider ICT ecosystem, closing the digital gap, developing the IoT, fibre, 5G, 6G, quantum, edge computing, block chain and high-performance computing; recalls that increased connectivity exposes to increased cyber threats and crime and in this context supports the joint and coordinated approach on the EU toolbox on 5G cybersecurity and the secure 5G deployment in the EU;

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24. Recalls that the success of the Union’s data and AI strategies depends on the wider ICT ecosystem, closing the digital gap while addressing the urban-rural digital divide, developing the IoT, fibre, critical infrastructure, including cybersecurity technology and research and risk prevention with reference to the deployment of 5G networks, 6G, quantum, edge computing, block chain and high-performance computing;

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Amendment 273Eva Maydell, Edina Tóth, Pilar del Castillo Vera, Pascal Arimont, Isabel Wiseler-Lima, Ivan Štefanec, Maria da Graça Carvalho, Sara Skyttedal, Tomas Tobé, Gheorghe Falcă, Angelika Niebler, Henna Virkkunen




24. Recalls that the success of the Union’s data and AI strategies depends on the wider ICT ecosystem, closing the digital gap, developing the IoT, fibre, 5G, 6G, quantum, edge computing, block chain and high-performance computing; underscores the importance of the Digital Europe Programme and the Horizon Europe programme, including the earmarking for quantum computing;

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24. Recalls that the success of the 24. Recalls that the success of the

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Union’s data and AI strategies depends on the wider ICT ecosystem, closing the digital gap, developing the IoT, fibre, 5G, 6G, quantum, edge computing, block chain and high-performance computing;

Union’s data and AI strategies depends on the wider ICT ecosystem, closing the digital gap, skilling, upskilling and reskilling, developing the IoT, fibre, 5G, 6G, quantum, edge computing, Robotic Process Automation, block chain and high-performance computing;

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24. Recalls that the success of the Union’s data and AI strategies depends on the wider ICT ecosystem, closing the digital gap, developing the IoT, fibre, quantum, edge computing, block chain and high-performance computing;

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24 a. Stresses that storage and transport of data further increases the use of energy if no action is taken; calls on the Commission to take measures to ensure transparency of the CO2 emissions of data storage and sharing, minimal wastage and to promote green data storage techniques; notes that new technological solutions, such as fibre

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compared to copper and energy efficient programming, produces a much smaller carbon footprint; supports the Commission in looking into the synergy between the district heating and cooling and the data centre sectors with the recovery and use of the waste heat generated when cooling data centre facilities;

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24 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;

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Amendment 278Patrizia Toia, Romana Jerković, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Miapetra Kumpula-Natri, Nicolás González Casares, Maria-Manuel Leitão-Marques



24 a. Welcomes the Commission infrastructure of High-Performance Computing; believes that it is an important instrument to exchange

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information and data between scientists and researcher and more broadly private and public actors;

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24 a. Considers that the roll out of 5G, 6G and every future technology with the potential of affecting human health or the environment should be dealt with on the basis of the precautionary principle;

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25. Calls on the Commission to promote competitive markets to support the development of European cloud offerings, e.g. Gaia-x;

25. Calls on the Commission to promote competitive markets reserved for European firms to support the development of European cloud offerings, e.g. Gaia-x; emphasises, by way of an example, the way in which the original idea underpinning the public cloud project Gaia-x, that of a purely European project, has been lost, since it will now involve US, Chinese and Indian tech firms and the lobby group Digital Europe, which includes Google, Apple and Facebook among its members, has just applied to join the service providers' collective;

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25. Calls on the Commission to use the tools at its disposal, including in-depth market reviews, to protect competitive Union markets in the areas of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS); urges the Commission to counteract abuses of market power by dominant actors in oligopolistic market structures in the European cloud markets, which could inhibit competition or consumer choice;

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25. Calls on the Commission to promote competitive markets to support the development of European cloud offerings, e.g. Gaia-x; welcomes the establishment of a European Cloud Federation, a European network of cloud infrastructures; stresses however that the freedom to opt for a non-European cloud service provider should remain unlimited for European businesses and consumers except for legitimate grounds such as risk to national security;

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Amendment 283Christophe Grudler, Klemen Grošelj, Dragoș Pîslaru, Valérie Hayer




25. Calls on the Commission to promote competitive markets to support the development of European cloud offerings, e.g. Gaia-x; believes that the development of European cloud infrastructures is essential to store and process EU citizens’ sensitive data; calls on the Commission to make proposals to limit the handling of European sensitive data within the EU;

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25. Calls on the Commission to promote competitive markets to support the development of European cloud offerings, e.g. Gaia-x; regrets that this initiative is not an EU-led public project involving all Member States but an association of 22 companies and organisations;

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25. Calls on the Commission to promote competitive markets to support the development of European cloud offerings, e.g. Gaia-x which is a leading example of federated data infrastructures, creating an ecosystem that allows the scalability of EU cloud providers;

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Amendment 286Eva Maydell, Edina Tóth, Pilar del Castillo Vera, Pascal Arimont, Ivan Štefanec, Maria da Graça Carvalho, Isabel Wiseler-Lima, Sara Skyttedal, Tomas Tobé, Gheorghe Falcă, Angelika Niebler, Henna Virkkunen




25. Calls on the Commission and Member States to promote competitive markets to support the development of European cloud offerings, e.g. Gaia-x;

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25 a. Underlines that while the digital transformation may be an enabler for the green transition and the shift toward a circular economy, the ICT sector itself is very resource and energy-intensive,

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contributing to global emissions and waste production throughout ICT products life-cycle and through frontier technologies that lead to the multiplication of power-hungry data centres;

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25 a. Suggest that the Commission takes advantage of the review of horizontal and vertical competition guidelines to introduce new tools to counter excessive market concentration, inherent to data markets, including, inter alia ongoing monitoring for at-risk-markets and, where necessary, ex-ante regulation;

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25 a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to co-invest in and create synergies among different spending programmes for the European cloud federation and for the deployment of the underlying high capacity connectivity infrastructures (e.g. submarine cables);

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Amendment 290Patrizia Toia, Miapetra Kumpula-Natri, Romana Jerković, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Nicolás González Casares, Eva Kaili, Maria-Manuel Leitão-Marques



25 a. Stresses that cloud infrastructures should be based on the principles of trust, openness, security, interoperability and portability;

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25 b. Stresses the importance of elaborating strategies to manage E-waste through recycling, upcycling, repurposing or reusing and to incentivise eco-design principles for ICT products and services; calls for broadening the scope of the Eco-design Directive 2009/125/EC to include more ICT products, services and structures such as data centres or cloud services;

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25 c. Underlines that the digital sector is highly energy-intensive and is responsible for almost the 4% of global greenhouse gas emissions; highlights, in particular, the role of data centres which account today for more than 1% of the world's electricity consumption; insists that energy efficiency, circular economy and environmental protection requirements should be at the core of the development of digital technologies and the deployment of data centres;

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25 d. Praises the Commission's intention of achieving highly energy-efficient, sustainable and climate-neutral data centres by 2030, and invites the Commission to swiftly propose corresponding regulatory initiatives and measures; in this context, urges the Commission to promote innovative and best available solutions for mitigating the environmental, resource and energy impact of data centres such as thermal containment, cooling, waste heat utilisation, while also promoting renewable energy installation requirements;

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26. Calls on the Commission to develop a ‘cloud rule book’ that will inter alia oblige service providers to reveal where data is stored and ensure users have sovereignty over their data;

26. Calls on the Commission to develop a ‘cloud rule book’ that will represent a solid framework to enhance clarity and facilitate compliance for cloud services and inter alia to oblige service providers to reveal where data is stored and ensure users have sovereignty over their data and create synergies with code of conducts for data portability and cloud provider switching already foreseen in the Regulation on the free flow of non-personal data (FFD);

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26. Calls on the Commission to fast-track the development of a ‘cloud rule book’, that establishes principles for the provision of cloud services in the Common Market and that will inter alia oblige service providers to reveal where data is stored, ensure users have sovereignty over their data, and allow users to seamlessly migrate their data via standardised interfaces to other service providers, where comparable cloud services exist;

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Amendment 296

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26. Calls on the Commission to develop a ‘cloud rule book’ that will inter alia oblige service providers to reveal where data is stored and ensure users have sovereignty over their data; believes that the Cloud rulebook should aim to prevent technological lock ins especially in public procurement; stresses that all cloud operators, whether established or acting in EU, must follow EU rules and their compliance should be monitored;

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26. Calls on the Commission, in the close cooperation with the Member States, to develop a ‘cloud rule book’;

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26. Calls on the Commission to develop a cloud regulation that will promote European cloud and oblige service providers to reveal where data is stored and ensure users have sovereignty over their data;

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Amendment 299Eva Maydell, Edina Tóth, Pilar del Castillo Vera, Ivan Štefanec, Isabel Wiseler-Lima, Sara Skyttedal, Maria da Graça Carvalho, Tomas Tobé, Gheorghe Falcă, Angelika Niebler, Henna Virkkunen




26. Calls on the Commission to develop a ‘cloud rule book’ that will inter alia oblige service providers to reveal where data is processed and stored and ensure users have sovereignty over their data;

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Amendment 300Eva Maydell, Edina Tóth, Pilar del Castillo Vera, Ivan Štefanec, Isabel Wiseler-Lima, Gheorghe Falcă, Sara Skyttedal, Tomas Tobé, Henna Virkkunen, Angelika Niebler, Maria da Graça Carvalho



26 a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to further accelerate the technological developments of IoT and edge computing, while supporting the convergence of technologies such as AI, digital twins, DLTs and intelligent

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connectivity at the edge, e.g. via large-scale open edge IoT projects;

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26 a. Welcomes the upcoming launch of a European Alliance for Industrial Data and Clouds and welcomes the efforts towards creating a European Alliance of Processors;

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Amendment 302Christophe Grudler, Klemen Grošelj, Dragoș Pîslaru, Nicola Danti, Valérie Hayer



27. Emphasises the importance of trust and cybersecurity for a stable data economy; urges the Commission to present solutions suited to market players of all sizes;

27. Emphasises the importance of trust and cybersecurity for a stable data economy; emphasises the importance of a culture of security for entities handling large amounts of data, especially with regard to the risks of cybercrime and cyberterrorism, as well as the risks of natural and technological accidents; urges the Commission to present solutions suited to market players of all sizes to anticipate and be prepared for all these risks;

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Amendment 303Eva Maydell, Edina Tóth, Pilar del Castillo Vera, Ivan Štefanec, Isabel Wiseler-Lima, Maria da Graça Carvalho, Sara Skyttedal, Tomas Tobé, Henna Virkkunen, Angelika Niebler, Gheorghe Falcă




27. Emphasises the importance of trust and cybersecurity for a stable data economy, as well as the importance of state-of-the-art underlying digital infrastructure; urges the Commission to present solutions that are suited to market players of all sizes; calls on the Commission to provide opportunities for conducting abusability and vulnerability audits of the infrastructure for data sharing;

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27. Emphasises the importance of trust and cybersecurity for a stable data economy; calls for the support of further development of technology for the secure sharing of data, e.g. via secure multi-party computing and encryption technology; urges the Commission to present solutions and standards suited to market players of all sizes, encouraging the use of transparency;

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27. Emphasises the importance of trust and cybersecurity for a stable data economy, notably in countering cyber threats against trade secrets; urges the Commission to present solutions suited to market players of all sizes, especially to micro and SMEs;

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27. Emphasises the importance of trust and cybersecurity for a stable data economy; urges the Commission to present solutions suited to market players of all sizes such as enhancement of blockchain technologies;

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27. Emphasises the importance of trust and cybersecurity, including 5G network security, for a stable data economy; urges the Commission to present solutions suited to market players of all sizes;

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27 a. Highlights that the gradual paradigm shift from physical centres of data storage to data architectures on the cloud and closer to the user, reinforces the need for a strengthened cybersecurity framework; underlines that the uptake and widespread use of products and services fuelled by data depend on cybersecurity standards, which will inspire trust and allow for safer data sharing mechanisms and better protocols to guarantee data protection;

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27a. Draws attention to the significant costs generated by cyber attacks and the rapid increase in those costs over the years; calls, in that connection, for the development of European initiatives

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coordinated between national actors, with a view to combating such attacks more effectively;

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27 a. Insists on the promotion and development of ecological European data centres in order to reduce our dependence on foreign and private data centres, subject to European norms and standards, with a medium-term objective of 100% renewable energy use;

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27 a. Welcomes the upcoming review of the Directive on security of network and information systems (NIS Directive) in order to improve cyber resilience and respond more effectively to cyber-attacks;

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Ignazio Corrao, Eleonora Evi



27 a. Supports the concept of data protection by design and by default as requirements for producers of products, services and applications that are based on the processing of personal data;

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27 b. Stresses that the safe and widespread uptake of both products and services in the data-fuelled consumer-facing IoT and industrial IoT European ecosystems must include trust by design in order to integrate privacy standards and security safeguards in all stages of the design process as well as the data processing protocols of devices and services;

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27 b. Calls on the Commission to ambitiously reform the Ecodesign Regulation for servers and the Energy Efficiency Directive in order to anticipate the explosion of energy consumption by data centres;

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Stresses that the datasets and algorithmic systems used when making classifications, assessments and predictions at the different stages of data processing in the development of AI and related technologies may also result in differential treatment of and indirect discrimination against groups of people with similar characteristics; calls for a rigorous examination of AI’s classification practices and harms; emphasises that AI technologies require to take into good account science and technology studies, critical race studies, disability studies, and other disciplines attuned to social context, including how difference is constructed, the work of classification, and its consequences; stresses the need therefore to systematically invest in integrating these disciplines into AI study and research at all levels;

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27 b. Believes that making sure that data-related innovation benefits all is essential and that for this to happen there is a need to improve the general data skill and literacy of the population by, inter alia, including data management in academic education of students and in training programs for professionals;

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28. Recognises the potential of data access to accelerate scientific research; welcomes the Commission’s work in enabling the sharing of data for research;

28. Recognises the potential of data access to accelerate scientific research; welcomes the Commission’s work in enabling the sharing of data for research; in the light of the current sanitary crisis, considers it crucial to speed up the creation of a European Health Data Space, which will improve research and enhance the ability to use data, including creating diagnostics that better match patients and medicines; welcomes the development of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) as an open, trusted and federated environment in Europe to store, share and re-use research data across borders;

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Amendment 318

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Angelika Niebler




28. Recognises the potential of data access to accelerate scientific research; welcomes the Commission’s work in enabling the sharing of data for research; calls on the Commission, as a priority, to develop common standards for the anonymisation, storage and secure exchange of personal medical data while maintaining the highest level of privacy for patients;

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28. Recognises the potential of data access to accelerate scientific research and private innovation; welcomes the Commission’s work in enabling the sharing of data for research and private innovation;

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28. Recognises the potential of data access to accelerate scientific research and education programmes; welcomes the Commission’s work in enabling the sharing of data for research and education;

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28 a. Points out that the most efficient way of reducing bias in data based systems is by ensuring that the maximum of non-personal data is available to train them and notes that public domain or freely licensed data are often used by AI and machine learning developers when selecting training data, both for ease of access and to avoid potential infringement liability exposure; highlights in this context the necessity to remove unnecessary legal barriers to data access and to facilitate cross-border uses;

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Amendment 322Pilar del Castillo Vera



28 a. Stresses that Europe’s growth potential will be determined by the skills of its population and workforce; calls on the EU to promote a reskilling revolution of educational systems that supports

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digital skills and competences in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, entrepreneurship and creativity;

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29. Calls on the Commission to promote software engineering, ICT talent attraction, employment of women in tech and data literacy skills for all;

29. Calls on the Commission to promote data literacy skills for all, software engineering, ICT talent attraction, employment of women in tech; further draws attention to the still important gender gap in AI and cybersecurity sectors; recommends to use machine learning training datasets that come from diverse human samples or to ensure that humans labelling the training datasets come from diverse backgrounds;

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29. Calls on the Commission to promote software engineering, ICT talent attraction, employment of women in tech and data literacy skills for all; underlines the need to promote women-led companies and employment of women in the digital sector and calls for measures to follow up on career development of

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women in STEM;

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Amendment 325Josianne Cutajar, Miapetra Kumpula-Natri, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Carlos Zorrinho, Łukasz Kohut, Romana Jerković, Nicolás González Casares




29. Calls on the Commission to promote STEM education, with a specific focus on gender equality, as well as software engineering, ICT talent attraction and data literacy skills for all in order to build a European know-how focusing on next-generation and forefront technologies;

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Amendment 326Margarita de la Pisa Carrión




29. Calls on the Commission to promote software engineering, ICT talent attraction, employment of men and women in equality and meritocracy in tech and data literacy skills for all;

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29. Calls on the Commission to promote software engineering, ICT talent attraction, foster the involvement and employment of women in tech and data literacy for all;

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29 a. Underlines that European programmes, namely Horizon Europe, Digital Europe and Space Programme, are designed to directly or indirectly support the generation, storage, processing, exploitation and sharing of research and business data;

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30. Calls for public and private funding for SMEs to fully capitalise on data economy’s potential;

30. Calls for public and private funding for SMEs to fully capitalise on data economy’s potential and to integrate digital technologies; reminds that only a minority of SMEs use customer relationship management (CRM) systems

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to analyse commercial information; underlines that the achievement of data equality for small and medium enterprises not only includes access to data, but also entails the skills to carry out analytics and to extract insights from such information;

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30. Calls for clear rules and criteria governing public and private funding to be incorporated into existing European and national programmes in order to assist SMEs and enable them, by means of targeted investment, to fully capitalise on the data economy's potential;

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30. Calls for public and private funding for SMEs to support the digital transition and capitalise on the data economy’s potential by strengthening regional digitalisation strategies;

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Amendment 332Eva Maydell, Edina Tóth, Pilar del Castillo Vera, Pascal Arimont, Ivan Štefanec, Isabel Wiseler-Lima, Maria da Graça Carvalho, Sara Skyttedal, Henna Virkkunen, Tomas Tobé, Gheorghe Falcă, Angelika Niebler




30. Calls for public and private funding for micro-, small and medium-sized enterprises to fully capitalise on the potential of the data economy

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Amendment 333Patrizia Toia, Romana Jerković, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Ivo Hristov, Nicolás González Casares, Maria-Manuel Leitão-Marques, Miapetra Kumpula-Natri




30. Calls for public and private funding for SMEs and Social economy enterprises to fully capitalise on data economy’s potential;

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30. Calls for public and private funding particularly for SMEs to fully capitalise on data economy’s potential;

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30. Calls for public and private funding for micro and SMEs to fully capitalise on data economy’s potential;

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Amendment 336Josianne Cutajar, Miapetra Kumpula-Natri, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Carlos Zorrinho, Łukasz Kohut, Romana Jerković, Nicolás González Casares, Csaba Molnár



30 a. Welcomes the Digital Europe Programme and the role of the European Digital Innovation Hubs that will help European businesses, especially those still lagging behind, to keep up with the opportunities of the digital transition;

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31. Calls on social partners to explore the potential of digitalisation, data and AI

31. Calls on social partners to explore the potential of digitalisation, data and AI

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to increase productivity, improve well-being of the workforce and invest in upskilling;

to increase sustainable productivity, improve the well-being of their workforces and invest in upskilling as well as investing in digital literacy schemes; notes that education and transparency of new data driven technologies is important for the workforce to be able to understand, and be part of, the fair implementation;

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31. Calls on social partners to explore the potential of digitalisation, data and AI to increase productivity, improve well-being of the workforce and invest in upskilling;

31. Calls on social partners to explore the potential of digitalisation, data and AI to increase productivity, improve well-being of the workforce and invest in upskilling; encourages Member States to address the gender gap in STEM via resources, advocacy and salary negotiation training;

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31. Calls on social partners to explore the potential of digitalisation, data and AI to increase productivity, improve well-being of the workforce and invest in upskilling and proactively involve in

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awareness raising campaigns;

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31. Calls on social partners to explore the potential of digitalisation, data and AI to increase productivity, improve well-being of the workforce and society as a whole, and encourages companies to invest in upskilling;

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31. Calls on social partners to explore the potential of digitalisation, data and AI to increase productivity, improve well-being of the workforce and invest in upskilling, reskilling and lifelong learning;

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31. Calls on social partners to explore the potential of digitalisation, data and AI to increase productivity, improve well-being of the workforce and invest in upskilling while respecting workers’ rights;

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31. Calls on social partners to explore the potential of digitalisation, data and AI to increase productivity, improve well-being of the workforce and invest in re-skilling, upskilling and out-skilling;

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31. Calls on social partners to explore the potential of digitalisation, data and AI to increase productivity, improve the well-being and employability of the workforce and invest in upskilling;

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31. Calls on social partners to explore the potential of digitalisation, data and AI to increase productivity, improve well-being of the workforce and invest in upskilling and reskilling;

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31 a. calls on the Commission to promote lifelong science-mathematics education in order to support the development of adequate digital skills and tools that adequately support processes related to artificial intelligence and cybersecurity;

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Amendment 347Patrizia Toia, Romana Jerković, Ivo Hristov, Nicolás González Casares, Maria-Manuel Leitão-Marques, Miapetra Kumpula-Natri


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31 b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to also promote lifelong education in school systems and through information campaigns that aims to increase the awareness and responsibility of citizens as protagonists of the data economy society;

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32. Believes that global rules governing the use of data are inadequate; calls on the Commission to work with like-minded third countries to agree on new international standards to govern the use of new technologies, such as AI;

32. Believes that global rules governing the use of data are regrettably still weak in the face of its already overwhelming place in our societies; calls on the Commission to work with the UN and third countries to agree on new international standards to govern the use of new technologies, such as AI; recalls the precedents of espionage by some of our so-called like-minded partners; calls on the European Union not to be naïve in its relations with its partners on digital and cybersecurity issues; stresses, particularly in the context of global competition, that the European Union has been able, with the GDPR, to lead the way towards an ethically demanding binding model;

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32. Believes that the status quo on global rules governing the use of data is inadequate; calls on the Commission to work with like-minded third countries to encourage them to become a party to Convention 108+ for the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data, which is the only international binding treaty to date; calls on the Commission to abide by its promise to propose new international standards to govern the use of new technologies, such as AI;

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32. Believes that global rules governing the use of data are inadequate; calls on the Commission to work with like-minded third countries and international organisations to agree on new international standards to govern the use of new technologies, such as AI; highlights the need for international rules and standards to foster global cooperation aimed at strengthening data protection and establishing safe and appropriate data transfers;

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Amendment 351Nicola Danti, Andrus Ansip, Mauri Pekkarinen, Christophe Grudler, Valérie Hayer,

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Susana Solís Pérez, Dragoș Pîslaru, Bart Groothuis, Iskra Mihaylova, Klemen Grošelj




32. Believes that global rules governing the use of data are inadequate and that the European Union should lead the creation of international standards, notably on data storage and processing, working with like-minded third countries in order to regulate the use of new technologies, such as AI, IoT and 5G, while promoting our values and principles and making sure that our market remains competitive and open to the rest of the world;

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32. Believes that global rules governing the use of data are inadequate; calls on the Commission to work with like-minded third countries and taking action in multilateral coordination to agree on new international standards, in coherence with EU values and principles, to govern the use of new technologies, such as AI;

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32. Believes that global rules governing the use of data are inadequate and serve only to boost the ever growing power of GAFAM; calls on the Commission and the Member States to work and negotiate with third countries to agree on new international standards to govern the use of new technologies, such as AI;

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32. 32. Believes that global rules governing the use of data are inadequate; calls on the Commission to work with like-minded third countries and in international and multilateral fora to agree on new international ethical and technical standards to govern the use of new technologies, such as AI;

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32. Believes that global rules governing the use of data are inadequate; calls on the Commission to work with like-minded third countries to agree on new

32. Believes that global rules governing the use of data are inadequate; calls on the Commission to work on both bilateral and multilateral level with like-minded third

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international standards to govern the use of new technologies, such as AI;

countries to agree on new international standards to govern the use of new technologies, such as AI;

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32a. Calls on the Commission to assess existing data exchange relations with third countries, in particular those which do not share our values; calls on the Commission to reconsider these partnerships, if necessary;

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32b. Takes the view that interference in the affairs of other States through the holding of digitalised data constitutes a serious breach of digital sovereignty; emphasises that certain national authorities, in their capacity as 'digital watchdogs', have voiced concerns regarding access by the authorities in north America to data transferred to the United States, with specific reference to the collection of and access to personal data, and that these actions are often justified by citing national security

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considerations under the US FISA Act and executive orders; points out that this legal arsenal is rounded off by extraterritoriality rules which become a means of waging economic war, used increasingly frequently by the United States, by providing for the adoption of provisions and measures whose legal reach extends beyond US national territory; takes the view, therefore, that the agreements drawn up in connection with every transfer outside Europe have no coercive force and that data collection methods can turn into completely unsupervised commercial practices;

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34c. Calls, as a matter of urgency, for the revision and invalidation of the Privacy Shield, the agreement authorising the transfer of data between the European Union and the United States subject to the requirement of reciprocity as regards the equal treatment of American and foreign data on US territory; emphasises, in that connection, that in the Shrems II case the Court of Justice of the European Union found that US surveillance practices remain incompatible with the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation;

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Amendment 359Damian Boeselager

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33. Calls for the free flow of data between the Union and third countries when privacy, security and other legitimate public policy interests are met; calls on the Commission to negotiate new rules for the global digital economy, including the prohibition of unjustified data localisation requirements;

33. Recalls that the CJEU has been clear that free flow of data between the Union and third countries should only happen when an essentially equivalent protection to that provided in the EU is afforded; urges to fully preserve privacy, security and other legitimate public policy interests in trade negotiations; welcomes the EU horizontal proposal on cross-border data flows, data localisation and the protection of privacy and data protection and calls on the Commission to abide by this position as a red line to avoid a race to the bottom in the protection of the fundamental rights to privacy and data protection;

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33. Stresses the importance of cross-border data flows for growth and innovation; Calls for the free flow of data between the Union and third countries to be permitted when privacy, security and other legitimate public policy interests are met; calls on the Commission to negotiate new rules for the global digital economy, including the prohibition of unjustified data localisation requirements; calls on the Commission to explore the possibilities to facilitate data flows with strategically

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important third countries;

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33. Calls for the free flow of data between the Union and third countries only when privacy, security and other legitimate public policy interests are met and when an adequate level of data protection is guaranteed e.g. via ad hoc adequacy decisions; calls on the Commission to negotiate new rules for the global digital economy, including the prohibition of unjustified data localisation requirements; recalls the importance of advancing in e-commerce negotiations at WTO level;

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33. Calls on the Commission to negotiate new rules for the global digital economy; recalls EU Court decision regarding the Privacy Shield and recommendations of the EDPS regarding transfer of data to third countries;

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33. Calls for the free flow of data between the Union and third countries when privacy, security and other legitimate public policy interests are met; calls on the Commission to negotiate new rules for the global digital economy, including the prohibition of data localisation or other unjustified requirements;

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33. Calls for the free flow of data between the Union and third countries only when privacy, security and other legitimate public policy interests are met; calls on the Commission to negotiate new rules for the global digital economy, including the prohibition of unjustified data localisation requirements;

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33. Calls for the free flow of data between the Union and third countries to be consistent with the rules on privacy and security and other legitimate public and private - in particular firms' - policy interests and the sovereignty of Member States; calls on the Commission and the Member States to negotiate new rules for the global digital economy;

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33 a. Recalls its recommendation on the negotiations for a new partnership with the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland stressing the importance of data protection both as a fundamental right, as well as a key enabler for the digital economy; notes that, according to the case law of the CJEU, in order for the Commission to declare the adequacy of the UK data protection framework, it must demonstrate that the UK provides a level of protection “essentially equivalent” to that offered by EU legal framework, including on onward transfers to third countries;

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Amendment 367Damian Boeselager

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33 a. Calls upon the European Commission to maintain its 2018 horizontal position on cross border data flows, privacy and data protection, and not to agree to trade rules that could limit its ability to regulate, for example on AI or cybersecurity;

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