MEP Meeting 02/03/2021
Draft agenda
Recurring items
Delegation weekly plan
Delegation work in progress
Admin/HR/Organisational
- public and in camera items
- internal meeting minutes should be disregarded and sensitive items should discussed in camera
- strong positions to be paraphrased
- process of verification necessary before publication – approval of the meeting minutes at the beginning of each MEP meeting.
- mobile phone purchase
- intention to buy a new phone for Tomáš Polák has been approved
"harmonized telephone number for seniors' helpline"
- Parliamentary question to be drafted by Zuzka based on the one pager provided by Marcel
- Group’s support to be discussed
IT survey to be finalised this week
Policy/PR/Coordination
- split votes CULT report possible: 71 signatures needed by Friday, request to be sent on behalf of Marcel
- Art. 57 to be removed
- Art. 59 to be rephrased. Wording to be shared with the advisor responsible and sent to MEPs prone to supporting it before sending it to the whole Parliament.
-Art. 58 to be rephrased
- Art. 63 to be approved
Problematic- split vote material
- 57 Welcomes the sixth evaluation of the Code of Conduct on Countering Illegal Hate Speech Online and the progress made in removing online hate speech; regrets the fact, however, that while the average rate of notifications reviewed within 24 hours remains high (81 %), it has fallen since 2020 (90.4 %), and the average removal rate has fallen to 62.5 % since 2019 and 2020; urges the Commission to continue its cooperation with platforms to eliminate hate speech online and to make improvements on removal rates, transparency and feedback to users
It promotes the Code of Conduct on Countering Illegal Hate Speech Online, which however relies on moderation from the platforms instead of a judicial assessment of potential hate speech and that's why you voted earlier against promoting it when the opportunity presented itself in a form of a split vote. In this light, the enthusiasm for removals here could be problematic.
- 59. Observes that English is prevalent in the development, deployment and use of AI, including content filters; warns that online hate speech is also practised in other languages, whose content filters are less effective; calls for measures to fight hate speech in all languages
- Let's improve upload filters?
Other points - MEPs opinion?
- 58. Expresses its concern about the spread of AI- and algorithm-enabled hate speech and disinformation that includes racial and discriminatory content; notes that hate speech and disinformation cause immediate disruption to our societies; calls for efforts to counter such activities, in particular by designing dedicated AI and algorithms with the ultimate goal of stemming the tide of hate speech and disinformation and mitigating its repercussions;
- 'ultimate goal' doesn't sound a million miles away from 'eradicating' hate speech and disinfo
-no automation of fighting hate speech
gestors
Kód: Vybrat vše
- their mandate to be discussed at the RP meeting
CZ PRES - follow up to cooperation proposal
Kód: Vybrat vše
- The platform to be discussed during the visit of minister Bek in Strasbourg next week, with those MEPs interested.
- Katka to share drafted email with interested MEPs.
Any other business