48. Encourages strengthened cooperation between European education and training institutions, and with international organisations and stakeholders, to facilitate a better understanding of new teaching and learning methods and the impact of ICT on education; encourages the development of common platforms for such cooperation;

This means that, for example, a NIS security breach affecting the provision of a service without compromising personal data (e.g. an ICT outage at a power company resulting in a blackout) would not have to be notified.

Calls on the Commission and the Member States to address the severe underrepresentation of women in the ICT sector, in particular among people in higher positions and on boards; urges the Commission and the Member States to recognise that the draft directive on improving the gender balance among non-executive directors of companies listed on stock exchanges and related measures provides a real opportunity to change the culture inside companies, which would have an impact on all levels of the hierarchy, and therefore urges the unblocking of the Directive in the Council; urgently reminds the Commission of its responsibility to take any a ...[+++]ction that could help break the deadlock in the Council as regards EU legislation addressing transparency and greater balance in recruitment for decision-making positions.

3. Notes that in recent years the distribution of ICT sector employment between the Union and other economies has developed to the detriment of the Union and underlines that while in 2008, the technology industry employed a total of 326 000 people in Finland, the number of people employed by such companies in 2014 was 276 000, which corresponds to an average decline per year of about 3 % (10 000 workers); points out that the events giving rise to these redundancies are the developments affecting Nokia in recent years, which have had a major impact on the ICT sector in Finland; whereas developing and designing operating systems for Noki ...[+++]a mobile phones used to employ thousands of Finnish people and these functions have now been transferred to countries outside Europe; points out that these redundancies will further aggravate the unemployment situation in the ICT sector in regions struggling with a high unemployment rate;

14. Notes that in households and in the building, transport, logistics and industrial sectors ICTs may be used in a variety of ways to improve energy efficiency and energy management; notes that these applications have an impact on, inter alia, electricity distribution, lighting, heating, refrigeration, ventilation and air conditioning and the opportunities ICTs offer in terms of measurement, monitoring and automation; maintains that smart meters, efficient lighting, cloud computing and distributed software can transform usage patterns of energy sources;

It is important to assess the impact of ICTs on sustainable development and to take into consideration the impact on those who use the technologies.