{"id":134261,"date":"2024-10-02T09:20:50","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T06:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/what-were-tech-commissioner-designate-virkkunens-policy-concerns-as-an-mep\/"},"modified":"2024-10-02T09:20:50","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T06:20:50","slug":"what-were-tech-commissioner-designate-virkkunens-policy-concerns-as-an-mep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/what-were-tech-commissioner-designate-virkkunens-policy-concerns-as-an-mep\/","title":{"rendered":"What were tech commissioner-designate Virkkunen\u2019s policy concerns as an MEP?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134261\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>Data shows that incoming EU tech commissioner Henna Virkkunen showed growing interest in tech dossiers such as audiovisual laws during her ten years as an MEP. The incoming EU commissioner for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy, Henna Virkkunen (Finland, EPP), served two terms as a member of the European Parliament \u2013 and was elected a third time in June \u2013 before being nominated by her country\u2019s government to become EU commissioner early July.<\/p>\n<p>Euronews checked her main digital focus areas as a member of the Parliament\u2019s Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) since 2014 \u2013 based on written and oral questions she submitted to the Commission \u2013 which show that her interest in audiovisual and SMEs grew over the years. In her second mandate (2019-2024), Virkunnen asked the EU executive more questions, compared to her first term.<\/p>\n<p>Of 76 written questions she submitted, some 15 covered tech and industry topics. In addition, she asked six oral questions, one of which on technology. This was an increase on the first mandate (2014-2019), when she asked 40 written questions in total, of which seven were technology related. She asked eight oral questions, two of those were on tech: consumer rights and online services.<\/p>\n<p>Questions in her first mandate were broader, covering a range of issues like consumer protection, VAT on digital books and online sales. For example, of data she asked how the Commission intended to ensure access and availability to data to support innovation and development, and if the EU executive planned to change liability rules to ensure that they were harmonised across Europe. This changed in the second mandate, where she asked six written questions related to intellectual property and audiovisual laws, as well as two on SMEs and two on energy efficiency and IT.<\/p>\n<p>Her questions on the audiovisual touched upon the Digital Services Act (DSA). She said in 2021 that the film and audiovisual sector \u201cis sustaining severe losses from the widespread illegal use of copyrighted content, including during the pandemic,\u201d which the DSA can protect. Asking the Commission to make sure there are no \u201cliability privileges\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Also in May 2021, Virkkunen asked about support for the recovery of the audiovisual sector, and the Commission\u2019s approach to guaranteeing full territorial exclusivity and commercial freedom. A third question focussed on whether or not the Commission planned to include streaming platforms with a competitive advantage in a common media data space.<\/p>\n<p>Last November, she wanted to know more about the much debated Digital Networks Act \u2013 plans to overhaul EU telecom rules planned for next year \u2014 stating that regulation &#8216;needs to encourage investment&#8217;. \u201cAmbitious, quantitative targets must be set to reduce the amount of unnecessary regulation, and these should be actively monitored. Regulation must be consistent and predictable, and it must be competitively and technologically neutral,\u201d she said, and asked whether the Commission wanted to remove such \u201cunnecessary regulation in the field of electronic communications during what remains of its current term?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As a rapporteur \u2013 the lawmaker who prepares the Parliament\u2019s position on a piece of legislation \u2013 she was in charge of a report on online platforms and the digital single market in 2018. As a so-called shadow rapporteur \u2013 representing her political group on the dossier \u2013 she contributed to another digital single market report in the period 2014-2019. In addition, she wrote opinions on tech and innovation fund Horizon Europe.<\/p>\n<p>In her second mandate, she wrote a report on cybersecurity of the EU institutions, and as a shadow-rapporteur one on cybersecurity requirements for products. She also submitted opinions on information security in the EU institutions, and one on the Digital Services Act. Virkkunen \u2013 who will need to stick to her work described by Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in a mission letter, including facilitating AI innovation, a Digital Networks Act and strengthening cybersecurity \u2013 will face a grilling in the Parliament on her ideas next month. She said in a post on X in July that sustainable growth is \u201ca number one priority\u201d, adding that entailed: \u201cReducing bureaucracy, SME entrepreneurship, continuation of the green transition, R&amp;D funding, digitalization, and accelerating investments.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/next\/2024\/10\/02\/what-were-tech-commissioner-designate-virkkunens-policy-concerns-as-an-mep\">Euronews<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/what-were-tech-commissioner-designate-virkkunens-policy-concerns-as-an-mep\/\">What were tech commissioner-designate Virkkunen\u2019s policy concerns as an MEP?<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[274,16326,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-134261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-eu","tag-mep-henna-virkkunen","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}