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I. Legislative work

  • Rapporteur in the 'Special Committee on Artificial Intelligence in a Digital Age' (AIDA). Draft report in preparation and scheduled for presentation in Q2 2021.

  • Resolution 2020/2717(RSP) of the LIBE-committee on the GDPR implementation evaluation report of the Commission as Shadow Rapporteur (Voss AMs).

  • Own-initiative report (INI 2020/2018) of the ITRE-committee on the European Data Strategy as Rapporteur for the JURI-committee. Draft opinion (rule 57) including all additional AMs.

  • Legislative own-initiative report (INL 2020/2014) of the JURI-committee on a Civil liability regime for AI as Rapporteur. Draft report, factsheets and final report approved by plenary.

  • COM(2017)0010 in the LIBE-committee on a new ePrivacy regulation as Shadow Rapporteur as well as Rapporteur of the opinion of the JURI-committee (resigned from rapporteurship after final vote).

  • COM(2018)0225 in the LIBE-committee on electronic evidence in criminal matters (Voss AMs).

  • COM(2018)0640 in the LIBE-committee on preventing the dissemination of terrorist content online (Voss AMs).

  • COM(2018)0184 in the JURI-committee on a directive establishing a collective redress regime (Voss AMs).

  • COM(2018)0218 in the JURI-committee on a directive for protecting whistle blowers (Voss AMs).

  • Regulation (EU) 2019/1150 in the IMCO-committee on a new set of rules for doing business online (P2B). Voss AMs for the JURI-opinion (rule 57).

  • Regulation (EU) 2018/1727 in the LIBE-committee on a new Eurojust regulation as Rapporteur.

  • Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 in the LIBE-committee on GDPR-adjusted data protection rules for EU-institutions (45/2001 review) as Shadow Rapporteur. 

  • Resolution 2018/2855(RSP) of the LIBE-committee on Cambridge Analytica as Shadow Rapporteur (Voss AMs).

  • Resolution 2018/2645(RSP) of the LIBE-committee on the Privacy Shield as Shadow Rapporteur (Voss AMs).

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II. Position Papers and other political initiatives

  • Response to the AI White Paper of the European Commission (see *.pdf)

  • Main principles for the upcoming DSA file (see *.pdf)

  • Digital Manifesto 2020 (Roadmap to secure Europe’s digital sovereignty and geo-political competitiveness) (see *.pdf)

  • Main points of criticism on the 2018 Collective Redress proposal of the Commission (see *.pdf)

  • German FAQ for the GDPR implementation in 2018 (see *.pdf)

  • Main points of criticism on the 2017 EP-draft on ePrivacy (see *.pdf)

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III. Some of the projects in my role as Research Associate for the KAS European Office*

  • 2017 event series 'Think Digital' in cooperation with Google, Siemens and ZVEI. Block #1 on Smart Cities (see report) and block #2 on innovation policy (see report).

  • 2017 event series 'Forum Internal Security' with Hanns-Seidel-Foundation and the Representation of Bavaria. Block #1 on '2 years after Charlie Hebdo' (see report) and block #2 on 'Better security by increased cooperation' (see report).

  • Ongoing expert workshops from 2015-2017 with various partners: (1) BDI-KAS-EMU, (2) BDI-KAS-Internal Market, (3) BDI-KAS-International Trade, (4) DIHK-KAS Brüsseler Initiative, (5) KAS-Wirtschaftsrat, (6) IW Köln-KAS and (7) DStGB-KAS. Exemplary, see report / report / report / report.

  • Organizing delegations and exchange programs to foster dialogue between Berlin and Brussels from 2015-2017, sometimes ending with public events (see report / report).

  • Reports of European Council summits in 2015 (Feb / Mar / Jun / Oct / Dec), in 2016 (Feb / Mar I and II / Jun / Oct / Dec) and in 2017 (Feb / Mar I and II / Apr / Jun) as well as on the Greek government-debt crisis in 2015 and the Brexit referendum I and II in June 2016.

(* All documents in section III. are shared with the consent of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung. The copyright for these documents remains solely with them.)