It might be interesting to add that during this round of discharge reports, there have been several statements for the use of open source software.
It is partly reported here: https://european-pirateparty.eu/european-parliament-strongly-recommends-any-software-developed-by-and-for-the-eu-institutions-to-be-made-publicly-available-under-free-and-open-source-software-licence/ Besides the European Parliament (full text in [1]) there was also similar statements for the Ombudsman [2]. Court of Auditors [3], European Data Protection Supervisor [4] and European External Action Service [5] [1] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/TA-9-2020-0084_EN.html [2] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/TA-9-2020-0086_EN.html [3] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/TA-9-2020-0088_EN.html [4] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/TA-9-2020-0087_EN.html [5] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/TA-9-2020-0094_EN.html Best, Jan Ainali http://ainali.com Den fre 29 maj 2020 kl 12:22 skrev Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov < [email protected]>: > > tl;dr > > We have an updated work programme by the Commission: Digital Services Act > will be proposed by the end of the year, but the Artificial Intelligence > dossier is being pushed back and is now expected first half of 2021. > Meanwhile the European Parliament is gathering input from MEPs on both > these topics in an array of non-binding reports. > > This and previous reports on Meta-Wiki: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EU_policy/Monitor > > ====== > > Digital Services Act (DSA) > > --- > > Back on track: Contrary to what your Wikimedia Brussels team was sure and > certain of, the Digital Serves Act timeline won’t be postponed, according > to the adjusted Commission Work Programme presented this week. [1] Despite > the fact that we are still waiting for the consultation to be published, > which was originally supposed to happen early May and is expected next week > now, Commissioner Breton and associates still want to have a legislative > proposal out in time by the end of this year. > > --- > > Meanwhile in the Parliament: The last of a number of own initiative draft > reports on the DSA was published by Kris Peeters (EPP BE) in the Civil > Liberties committee (LIBE). [2] Petters supports “limited liability for > content and the country of origin principle”, key components of the current > regime under the e-Commerce Directive. However he suggests that harmful > content, as opposed to only illegal content, should be addressed. > > --- > > Meanwhile in Parliament II: Last month’s Monitoring Report already talked > about the other two parliamentary draft reports, by Alex Saliba (S&D MT) in > the Internal Market committee (IMCO) and by Tiemo Wölken (S&D DE) in the > Legal Affairs committee (JURI). [3] The MEPs and their staff are now > parsing through hundreds of amendments on these (non-binding) reports. > [4][5] Votes are expected in September. Some key questions include: > > *Should harmful content be included in the scope? > > *Should there be extra rules for some, more dominant platforms? > > *Should these extra rules be for platforms that are “dominant”, > “systemic”, “which significant network effects”, “holding a significant > gatekeeper role”. [6] > > *Should platforms that moderate content enjoy liability protections? (They > now risk losing it.) > > On the other hand, it seems that almost everyone sees the need for some > sort of notice and action procedures for content removal to be enshrined. > > ====== > > Artificial Intelligence: The consultation on Artificial Intelligence is > due in a couple of weeks. Several of you already contributed (mille > grazie!). [7] We are having a call Monday, 1 June, at 15:00 CEST to polish > our answers to the Commission survey. Ping me if you like to join! > > ====== > > Data Strategy: The Commission is asking about things like “data > altruism”, “data for the public good” and data “donations”. All these terms > are crucial to the interpretation of the questions and their answers and, > of course, there are no where defined. We called the Commission out on > this, submitted a position on “quality requirements for High-Value > Datasets” (which was asked about as such sets should become open as per > Open Data Directive). We also gave examples of data being already gathered > and used for the public good and a few ideas what potential “data trustees” > could look like. We, of course, didn’t forget to repeat our “Carthago > delenda est” a.k.a. “No new IP rights!” Our final submissions are now > linked on the Meta-Wiki page of the consultation. [8] > > ====== > > Competition Consultation: [9][10] > > One of the European Commission’s main objectives for the current > legislative is regulating platforms. The Digital Services Act is an > important but not the only one part of this endeavor, as the EC’s > Vice-President Margrethe Vestager seems to be set to solving some of the > problems through competition mechanisms. It is in fact good news, as > pushing everything that relates to dominant platforms into a Digital Single > Market regulation may be limiting to solve issues that have little to do > with the common market area and a lot to do with how powerful some actors > have become. > > The EC plans to evaluate a 1997 Notice on market definition[9], a set of > binding guidelines used to define what's the "market" a business operates > in. This is a crucial step in determining things such as whether a business > has a large or small market share, whether a business is dominant, or > whether a merger would reduce competition and cause harm. > > The process has started with gathering of feedback on the scope and > rationale of the evaluation. Both the Wikimedia Foundation and Free > Knowledge Advocacy Group submitted responses underlining the need to > evaluate the notice as to its adequacy for the digital sphere and markets. > The analysis of a relevant market should be centered around user behaviour > and how the results of examining that behaviour can be integrated in the > market definition. You can check both responses on a dedicated meta > page[10] or on the EC’s website[11][12]. > > We will be following this process as the next step is consultation on the > Notice planned to start in the second quarter of 2020[13]. If you would > like to be involved in drafting the consultation response, let us know! > > ====== > > [1] > https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/info/files/cwp-2020-adjusted-annexes_en.pdf > > [2]https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/LIBE-PR-650509_EN.pdf > > [3] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/publicpolicy/2020-April/002002.html > > [4] > https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/popups/ficheprocedure.do?lang=&reference=2020/2018(INL) > > [5] > https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/popups/ficheprocedure.do?lang=&reference=2020/2019(INL) > > [6]https://twitter.com/Kirst3nF/status/1265985306144256000 > > [7] > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EU_policy/Consultation_on_the_White_Paper_on_Artificial_Intelligence_(2020) > > [8] > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EU_policy/Consultation_on_a_European_Strategy_for_data#Submission > > [9] > https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?qid=1586343289199&uri=CELEX:31997Y1209(01) > > [10] > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EU_policy/consultations/Feedback_Notice_on_market_definition > > [11] > https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/12325-Evaluation-of-the-Commission-Notice-on-market-definition-in-EU-competition-law/F519586 > > [12] > https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/12325-Evaluation-of-the-Commission-Notice-on-market-definition-in-EU-competition-law/F519591 > > [13] > https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/12325-Evaluation-of-the-Commission-Notice-on-market-definition-in-EU-competition-law > > ====== > > END > > ====== > _______________________________________________ > Publicpolicy mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/publicpolicy >
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