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Virtual worlds: opportunities, risks and policy implications for the Single Market

2022/2198(INI)·9th term·CULT / IMCO·INI - Own-initiative procedure·CompletedProcedure completed
Subjects: Internal market, single market · Information and communication technologies, digital technologies
Rapporteur (the Member appointed to lead Parliament's work on this text): ARIAS ECHEVERRÍA Pablo (EPP)
Summary

Own-initiative report on virtual worlds: opportunities, risks and policy implications for the Single Market. Amendments define virtual worlds or 'metaverses' as immersive 3D or 2D spaces, call for an EU strategy protecting privacy, fundamental rights and minors against online harm and addiction, support for the video game and virtual-reality sectors via Horizon Europe and Creative Europe, digital education, market-concentration and AI concerns, intellectual property and non-fungible tokens.

Procedure timeline

  1. Committee amendments tabled
    5 Jun 2023 – 26 Sep 2023
  2. Plenary vote — Adopted
    17 Jan 2024 · On the motion for a resolution
  3. Procedure completed
196
Amendments
distinct, in window
31
Members
tabled at least one
2
Committee(s)
5 Jun 2023 – 26 Sep 2023
Dates

Plenary votes

1 roll-call votes

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  1. 17 Jan 2024Main voteAdopted
    On the motion for a resolution
    Official label: Proposition de résolution · what was voted ↗
    484 for45 against98 abstentions78 did not vote
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Official amendment documents

PE749.262 ↗PE753.642 ↗

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Members who amended this procedure

31 Members · by amendment count
1🇵🇹
Francisco GUERREIRO
Greens / EFA · Portugal
30(30 solo)
2🇷🇴
Maria GRAPINI
Socialists & Democrats · Romania
24
3🇲🇹
Alex AGIUS SALIBA
Socialists & Democrats · Malta
24
4🇵🇹
Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES
Socialists & Democrats · Portugal
24
5🇫🇷
Anne-Sophie PELLETIER
The Left (GUE/NGL) · France
22(22 solo)
6🇷🇴
Vlad-Marius BOTOŞ
Renew Europe · Romania
21(2 solo)
7🇨🇿
Dita CHARANZOVÁ
Renew Europe · Czechia
19
8🇸🇰
Peter POLLÁK
European People's Party (EPP) · Slovakia
17
9🇮🇹
Isabella ADINOLFI
European People's Party (EPP) · Italy
17
10🇪🇸
Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO
Socialists & Democrats · Spain
13
11🇵🇹
João ALBUQUERQUE
Socialists & Democrats · Portugal
13
12🇫🇷
Virginie JORON
Patriots for Europe · France
13
13🇩🇪
Markus BUCHHEIT
Europe of Sovereign Nations · Germany
13
14🇫🇷
Jean-Lin LACAPELLE
Identity & Democracy · France
13
15🇪🇸
Domènec RUIZ DEVESA
Socialists & Democrats · Spain
12
16🇮🇹
Carlo FIDANZA
European Conservatives & Reformists · Italy
11(11 solo)
17🇨🇿
Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ
European People's Party (EPP) · Czechia
9
18🇩🇪
Niklas NIENASS
Greens / EFA · Germany
8(8 solo)
19🇵🇱
Tomasz FRANKOWSKI
European People's Party (EPP) · Poland
8
20🇩🇪
Andreas SCHWAB
European People's Party (EPP) · Germany
8(8 solo)
21🇫🇷
Laurence FARRENG
Renew Europe · France
7
22🇸🇮
Irena JOVEVA
Renew Europe · Slovenia
7
23🇫🇷
Ilana CICUREL
Renew Europe · France
7
24🇩🇰
Morten LØKKEGAARD
Renew Europe · Denmark
7
25🇫🇷
Salima YENBOU
Renew Europe · France
7

The amendments, in full text

196 amendments

Every amendment as tabled — original text, proposed change and justification, with a link to the official PDF.

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