La souveraineté technologique européenne et les infrastructures numériques

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1. Amendement 1Adopté

   Paragraph 3 a (new)

   Déposé par Michał Kobosko, Christophe Grudler, Abir Al-Sahlani +101 · Members

   Ajouté: 3a. Reaffirms that the EU must remain sovereign in enforcing its laws, especially in the digital field; firmly condemns and calls for the cancellation of the travel bans imposed by the United States on civil society leaders Imran Ahmed, Clare Melford, Anna-Lena von Hodenberg and Josephine Ballon, whose work contributes to a safer digital environment for all and holds digital platforms accountable, as well as the travel ban imposed by the United States on former EU Commissioner Thierry Breton, who played a key role in establishing EU digital rules; calls on the Commission and the Member States to deliver a firm response to these unprecedented attacks; notes recent enforcement actions taken under the Digital Services Act1a for breaches of transparency and risk-mitigation obligations, such as the EUR 120 million fine against X; recalls that enforcement of the EU’s digital legislation aims to ensure compliance with EU law and the protection of fundamental rights, and not to regulate political opinions; underlines that the deployment of new functionalities, including those based on generative AI, by very large online platforms must be accompanied by appropriate safeguards and risk-mitigation measures to ensure full compliance with EU law, in particular as regards the prevention of the dissemination of illegal or manipulated content; denounces the support provided by certain political parties – such as the AfD, Reconquête, Fidesz or Konfederacja – which repeat narratives originating from outside the EU and weaken the EU’s digital legislation and democratic values; __________________ 1a Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 October 2022 on a Single Market For Digital Services and amending Directive 2000/31/EC (Digital Services Act) (OJ L 277, 27.10.2022, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2022/2065/oj).

2. Amendement 2Rejeté

   Recital A

   Déposé par Aleksandar Nikolic, Mathilde Androuët, Christophe Bay +71 · Members

   A. whereas technological sovereignty should be Supprimé: seen as the whole value chain Ajouté: understood as encompassing the entire value chain, from excellence in research to Supprimé: creating better competition and achieving greater European sovereignty; Ajouté: fostering fair competition and the capacity to master the key strategic technologies necessary to safeguard Europe’s economic, political and security independence; whereas the pursuit of technological sovereignty requires a strict commitment towards European preference, ensuring that public funding, procurement and support instruments primarily benefit EU-based industries, technologies and supply chains; whereas sovereignty is to be understood as residing with the Member States rather than with the EU;

3. Amendement 3Rejeté

   Paragraph 11 a (new)

   Déposé par Aleksandar Nikolic, Mathilde Androuët, Christophe Bay +72 · Members

   Ajouté: 11a. Emphasises that the supply of critical raw materials remains a strategic vulnerability, with the EU heavily dependent on third-country suppliers; underlines the key role of circularity and the recycling of critical materials for technological sovereignty and the need for an urgent scaling-up of domestic mining, refining and recycling capacities;

4. Amendement 4Rejeté

   Paragraph 59

   Déposé par Aleksandar Nikolic, Mathilde Androuët, Christophe Bay +77 · Members

   59. Supprimé: Calls on the Commission to react to the new geopolitical realities and the use of digital supply chains as pressure tools; urges the Commission to find a negotiated solution to the US ban on the export of AI chips to 16 EU Member States; Ajouté: Regrets the agreement on EU-US tariffs announced on 27 July 2025, which imposes a 15 % tariff on strategic sectors, including semiconductors; stresses that this agreement is detrimental to the economic sovereignty and strategic interests of the Member States; underlines, in this regard, that the choices made in the field of international trade once again demonstrate the inadequacy of the Commission’s management of the EU’s trade policy; emphasises, therefore, the importance of the full involvement of the Member States, especially where strategic sectors are concerned;

5. Amendement 5Rejeté

   Paragraph 66

   Déposé par Aleksandar Nikolic, Mathilde Androuët, Christophe Bay +71 · Members

   66. Supprimé: Notes Ajouté: Regrets that the discussions on the EU Cybersecurity Certification Scheme for Cloud Services … considerations, in particular related to the extraterritoriality of binding legal regimes, that Supprimé: cannot be solved through technical discussions; Ajouté: must be urgently addressed; invites the Commission to support existing high-level national cloud security certification schemes that combine robust cybersecurity requirements with explicit guarantees of legal sovereignty, in order to establish the highest possible standards for these certification schemes and facilitate their practical implementation; calls on the Commission to Ajouté: also propose a definition of sovereign cloud and its scope of application in …

6. Amendement 6Rejeté

   Paragraph 92 a (new)

   Déposé par Aleksandar Nikolic, Mathilde Androuët, Christophe Bay +77 · Members

   Ajouté: 92a. Stresses that the competitiveness of European industry is currently hampered by excessive regulation, in particular by the EU environmental policies adopted during the previous legislative term; urges the Commission to intensify its efforts to simplify and, where appropriate, deregulate, notably with regard to the European Green Deal; underlines that, in order to ensure the emergence of sovereign and competitive European champions and to strengthen Europe’s global industrial leadership, the regulatory, administrative and financial burdens on European businesses must be substantially reduced without delay;

7. Amendement 7Rejeté

   Paragraph 103

   Déposé par Jorge Martín Frías, Mathilde Androuët, Christophe Bay +72 · Members

   103. Calls on the Commission to Ajouté: take the necessary actions to ensure a reliable and sufficient Supprimé: clean energy and net-zero technology Ajouté: energy supply to support the digital infrastructure of the Supprimé: future; Ajouté: future, by promoting energy generation using all available sources and by developing plans to increase strategic energy autonomy based on the principle of technological neutrality, as well as by making appropriate investments in electricity grids to eliminate the existing bottlenecks and network congestion that hinder industry and innovation;

8. Amendement 8Rejeté

   Paragraph 103 a (new)

   Déposé par Aleksandar Nikolic, Mathilde Androuët, Christophe Bay +72 · Members

   Ajouté: 103a. Stresses that the high energy costs for the operation of digital infrastructure are penalising European companies and undermining their competitiveness compared to non-EU competitors that benefit from lower energy prices; stresses that the EU’s energy policies should ensure access to stable and affordable electricity for strategic industries, including data centres, high-performance computing infrastructure and energy-intensive sectors; strongly underlines the need for actions aimed at reducing volatility and lowering high energy prices, which have a significant impact on EU businesses; urges the Commission and the Member States, following adequate impact assessment and consultation with the stakeholders concerned, to put forward ways to decouple electricity prices from fossil fuel prices;

9. Amendement 9Rejeté

   Paragraph 103 b (new)

   Déposé par Aleksandar Nikolic, Mathilde Androuët, Christophe Bay +72 · Members

   Ajouté: 103b. Urges the Commission, in cooperation with the Member States, to propose a long-term nuclear energy strategy that goes beyond small modular reactors and fusion research, and also includes support for the deployment of large reactors as well as the development of fourth-generation reactors; recalls that, despite several decades of favouring intermittent energy sources over nuclear energy, the EU still occupies a leading position in the nuclear sector, with companies covering the entire technological spectrum; stresses, however, the need to strengthen this position in order to improve competitiveness and meet the challenges of the digital transition;

10. Amendement 10Rejeté

    Paragraph 115 a (new)

    Déposé par Aleksandar Nikolic, Mathilde Androuët, Christophe Bay +78 · Members

    Ajouté: 115a. Invites the Member States and the Commission to support and facilitate initiatives aimed at accelerating the use of robots by European industries, in order to address Europe’s persistent lag in industrial automation compared to major competitors, and to complement the current Industry 4.0-related actions under the Digital Europe and Horizon Europe programmes; stresses that the delayed automation of European industrial production has already undermined global competitiveness in several sectors and that a timely acceleration in the deployment of robots is essential to safeguard industrial capacities and secure high-quality jobs that would otherwise be lost to non-EU competitors;