On Friday 24 June, the Member States’ ambassadors to the EU will discuss the latest version of the French Presidency of the EU Council’s (FPEU) compromise proposal to prepare the inter-institutional negotiations on the European Declaration on Digital Rights and Principles for the Digital Decade (see EUROPE 12966/14).
A number of minor changes have been made, compared to the previous version of the compromise text, in particular to ensure consistency between existing instruments and those being negotiated.
The text therefore emphasises, with explicit reference, the participation of very large platforms in the public arena, insisting on their role in the democratic debate. A reference to linguistic and cultural diversity has also been added.
These clarifications in the FPEU proposal come at a time when interinstitutional agreements on the Digital Markets Act (DMA) (see EUROPE 12953/31) and Digital Services Act (DSA) (see EUROPE 12973/11) have recently been concluded.
The text also places the NIS 2 Directive - which should ensure a common high level of cyber security across the EU and on which a provisional political agreement was reached on 12 May (see EUROPE 12977/21) - at the centre of solutions to achieve “confidential, honest and trustworthy” online services.
In addition to several minor changes on the importance of having “safe” artificial intelligence systems with an “adequate level of transparency”, the text also returns to the issue of data protection.
On this point, the text calls for a commitment to promote the possibility for individuals “to have simplified management, legible transparency and control of personal data flows operated by digital platforms towards third parties” and recommends promoting the implementation of portability rights with regard to personal and non-personal data stored or generated by digital services.
See the document: https://aeur.eu/f/29r (Original version in French by Thomas Mangin)