Federation of European Information Technology Associations [ EIT | European Independent Informatics Industry ]

European Ports Data Processing Association

European Computing Services Association | ECSA [Abbr.]

European Association for Shipping Informatics | EASI [Abbr.]

European Association for Shipping Information

18. Notes that the Commission made a proposal, in the context of the implementation of Horizon 2020, to combine Embedded computing systems (Artemis) and Nanoelectronics (ENIAC) into a single initiative and therefore wind-up Artemis and ENIAC Joint Undertakings before their normal end of life up to 31 December 2017 (COM(2013)0501); notes that the new Joint Undertaking in the field of electronic components and systems called ECSEL ('Electronic Components and Systems for European Leadership') will take the form of a tripartite institutional Public-Private Partnership (PPP) with a dedicated legal entity involving the private sector, nationa ...[+++]l authorities and European authorities;

BR. whereas mass surveillance activities give intelligence agencies access to personal data stored or otherwise processed by EU individuals under cloud services agreements with major US cloud providers; whereas the US intelligence authorities have accessed personal data stored or otherwise processed in servers located on EU soil by tapping into the internal networks of Yahoo and Google; whereas such activities constitute a violation of international obligations and of European fundamental rights standards including the right to private and family life, the confidentiality of communications, the presumption of innocence, freedom of expr ...[+++]ession, freedom of information, freedom of assembly and association and the freedom to conduct business; whereas it is not excluded that information stored in cloud services by Member States’ public authorities or undertakings and institutions has also been accessed by intelligence authorities;

BQ. whereas mass surveillance activities give intelligence agencies access to personal data stored or otherwise processed by EU individuals under cloud services agreements with major US cloud providers; whereas the US intelligence authorities have accessed personal data stored or otherwise processed in servers located on EU soil by tapping into the internal networks of Yahoo and Google; whereas such activities constitute a violation of international obligations and of European fundamental rights standards including the right to private and family life, the confidentiality of communications, the presumption of innocence, freedom of expr ...[+++]ession, freedom of information, freedom of assembly and association and the freedom to conduct business; whereas it is not excluded that information stored in cloud services by Member States’ public authorities or undertakings and institutions has also been accessed by intelligence authorities;

Your Rapporteur has taken into consideration the discussions held during the Workshop organised by the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection on 11 December 2008 as well as the input received by several stakeholders, institutions and academia, such as CEN (European Committee for Standarisation), CEMA (European Committee of Associations of Manufacturers of Agricultural Machinery), Pesticide Action Network-Europe, Orgalime (The European Engineering Industries Association), Julius Kühn-Institute-Federal Research Centre ...[+++]for Cultivated Plants (JKI-Germany) and the Department of Agricultural Engineering and Informatics of the University of Agriculture in Krakow.