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Atos SE (France)

Atos is a French global leader in digital transformation, cybersecurity, and high-performance computing.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Thomas Skordas (Deputy Director-General Communications Networks, Content and Technology) and

21 Oct 2025 · Exchange of views on the European HPC Developments, including AI Gigafactories initiative and CHIPs Act.

Meeting with Werner Stengg (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen)

6 Oct 2025 · Digital Policy

Meeting with Thomas Skordas (Deputy Director-General Communications Networks, Content and Technology) and

15 Jan 2025 · The European Processor RHEA-1 designed by SIPEARL and the installation of the JUPITER cluster by EVIDEN

Meeting with Thierry Breton (Commissioner) and Google and

6 Sept 2022 · meeting with the Green Digital Coalition - Main topic : state of play on sustainable digitalization

Meeting with Anthony Whelan (Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen)

2 Jun 2022 · Cybersecurity/digital sovereignty & strengthening EU cyber capabilities

Meeting with Christophe Grudler (Member of the European Parliament)

29 Mar 2022 · Cybersecurité

Meeting with Thierry Breton (Commissioner) and

14 Dec 2021 · EU Data strategy, European Cloud Alliance.

Meeting with Dennis Radtke (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

6 Sept 2021 · European Works Councils Directive

Meeting with Thierry Breton (Commissioner) and

7 May 2021 · Cloud & Data Alliance - CEO Roundtable

Meeting with Thierry Breton (Commissioner) and

16 Dec 2020 · Roundtable - Cloud Alliance

Response to Requirements for Artificial Intelligence

8 Sept 2020

Artificial intelligence – ethical and legal requirements Atos Feedback – 8 Sep 2020 Atos welcomes the opportunity to respond to the Inception Impact Assessment proposed by the European Commission on the proposed legal act on Artificial Intelligence. Atos supports implementing policies aiming at mitigating the risks associated with AI applications. We believe that a non-legislative approach would not meet this objective, and conversely that mandatory requirements, especially if applied indiscriminately to all applications, are not economically and technically effective. Please find below our comments on each presented option. EU “soft law” (non-legislative) approach (option 1) We believe that a totally non-binding approach would not be sufficient to ensure sufficient security. In the framework of current existing legislation, we recommend imposing a standard for high-risk applications to ensure that they comply with the 7 principles for an ethical AI defined by the Commission. This could be done by first defining a common risk repository and then classifying applications evaluated within this repository, Setting up a voluntary labeling scheme (option 2) Atos supports the creation of voluntary labels. The creation of labels (for example one label for each of the seven principles of the European Commission for an ethical artificial intelligence), based on an evaluation template defined by the Commission, can be envisaged, making it possible to highlight the characteristics of an application on the AI axes of trust proposed by the Commission. The label would be awarded after analysis by a competent European structure - to be created, if necessary - and which could also define and manage the standards for applications identified as critical. In particular, Atos recommends this label be used as a selection criterion in the context of public or private procurement processes, in order to be able to rule out solutions that do not respect the commitments linked to the label, and therefore do not offer all the desired guarantees for the user. This approach would make it possible to reveal the potential threats posed by existing solutions and potentially become a growth lever for complying solutions, becoming a competitive asset for their developers. Conversely, in the absence of global standards, not adopting this labelling approach could prevent the efforts made by both European and non-European AI actors on ethical dimensions, from being valued. Regulations and requirements relating to high-risk AI, specific applications or all AI (options 3 and 4) Atos advises against imposing specific requirements for all AI applications as presented in option 3c. Atos recommends taking into account the notions of the impact (or severity) of a damage and the probability that this damage will occur. It should be noted that regulation is necessary but not sufficient to enhance the value of ethically compliant assets beyond the Union. Standards and labels could make it possible to promote the specificities of these solutions in other geographies or contexts not subject to European regulations.
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Meeting with Roberto Viola (Director-General Communications Networks, Content and Technology)

21 Jun 2019 · Stratégie Exascale d'ATOS, Industrie 4.0

Meeting with Gertrud Ingestad (Director-General Informatics)

23 May 2019 · digitisation approaches and the technology landscape, with a particular focus on innovation and organisational development

Meeting with Roberto Viola (Director-General Communications Networks, Content and Technology), Roberto Viola (Director-General Communications Networks, Content and Technology)

29 Oct 2018 · Euro HPC, Microprocessor initiative

Meeting with Andrus Ansip (Vice-President) and

18 Oct 2018 · Cybersecurity

Meeting with Vivian Loonela (Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip) and Airbus and

21 Jun 2018 · Cybersecurity package

Meeting with Mariya Gabriel (Commissioner)

12 Jun 2018 · Visit of CEBIT exhibit (Big data, Cybersecurity, HPC, Digital Workplace, Worldline payment service)

Meeting with Mariya Gabriel (Commissioner)

19 Apr 2018 · HPC

Meeting with Vivian Loonela (Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip) and Deutsche Telekom and

5 Mar 2018 · Exchange on the proposed Cyber Security, on the certification framework and the future mandate of the ENISA/European Cyber Security policy

Meeting with Andrus Ansip (Vice-President) and

28 Nov 2017 · Atos, HPC

Meeting with Stephen Quest (Director-General Taxation and Customs Union)

12 Oct 2017 · Strategic exchange on new technology and innovation

Response to Implementing act under Article 15(11) of the Tobacco Products Directive 2014/40/EU

2 Oct 2017

Worldline, an Atos Company, welcomes the opportunity to provide feedback on the current draft implementing and delegated acts, as published by the European Commission on September 2nd 2017. Worldline has a Competence Center T&T which focuses on issues related to counterfeiting, smuggling and tax fraud. We have been following the discussions related to TPD for many years, just like we have followed the Falsified Medicines Directive, and other initiatives which aim to establish authentication and traceability systems in different industries. Our contribution is based on the practical experience we have built up in the provisioning of Authentication and implementation of Tracking & Tracing systems deployed in multiple sectors across the EU, and beyond. We believe the published drafts provide an initial view on the direction the European Commission has in mind for the implementation of Articles 15 and 16 of the Tobacco Product Directive (TPD). While different key decisions still need to be made, we believe the described approach makes sense. However, we sincerely hope the European Commission will consider our below considerations, as we believe these considerations will determine whether the system will live up to expectations, or fail. The European Commission is aiming to set up a system which, given its scope, size of the industry, and amount of impacted economic agents, has not been done before. We are confident they will respect their own commitments of issuing “better regulations”, and will therefor respect their mandate as described in the TPD provisions. Worldline has three key considerations for the European Commission, which we believe to be vital for a successful system. Furthermore, we have some other reflections, which will enhance a level playing field for solution providers, and foster innovation in the field of UID issuing. You will find a detailed description of our key considerations and reflections in Annex.
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Response to Delegated act under Article 15(12) of the Tobacco Products Directive 2014/40/EU

2 Oct 2017

Worldline, an Atos Company, welcomes the opportunity to provide feedback on the current draft implementing and delegated acts, as published by the European Commission on September 2nd 2017. Worldline has a Competence Center T&T which focuses on issues related to counterfeiting, smuggling and tax fraud. We have been following the discussions related to TPD for many years, just like we have followed the Falsified Medicines Directive, and other initiatives which aim to establish authentication and traceability systems in different industries. Our contribution is based on the practical experience we have built up in the provisioning of Authentication and implementation of Tracking & Tracing systems deployed in multiple sectors across the EU, and beyond. We believe the published drafts provide an initial view on the direction the European Commission has in mind for the implementation of Articles 15 and 16 of the Tobacco Product Directive (TPD). While different key decisions still need to be made, we believe the described approach makes sense. However, we sincerely hope the European Commission will consider our below considerations, as we believe these considerations will determine whether the system will live up to expectations, or fail. The European Commission is aiming to set up a system which, given its scope, size of the industry, and amount of impacted economic agents, has not been done before. We are confident they will respect their own commitments of issuing “better regulations”, and will therefor respect their mandate as described in the TPD provisions. Worldline has three key considerations for the European Commission, which we believe to be vital for a successful system. Furthermore, we have some other reflections, which will enhance a level playing field for solution providers, and foster innovation in the field of UID issuing. You will find a detailed description of our key considerations and reflections in Annex.
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Meeting with Andrus Ansip (Vice-President) and

6 Sept 2017 · Cybersecurity

Meeting with Mariya Gabriel (Commissioner)

6 Sept 2017 · Tallinn Digital Summit

Meeting with Günther Oettinger (Commissioner)

23 Mar 2017 · stand visit

Meeting with Andrus Ansip (Vice-President) and

13 Mar 2017 · Cybersecurity, DSM mid-term review

Meeting with Roberto Viola (Director-General Communications Networks, Content and Technology) and Arm Limited

10 Jun 2016 · Large data servers - high end computing

Meeting with Jean-Claude Juncker (President)

4 Mar 2016 · Meeting with Mr Thierry Breton on Digital Single Market

Meeting with Roberto Viola (Director-General Communications Networks, Content and Technology) and Telefonica, S.A. and Orange

20 Jan 2016 · Fiware core industry

Meeting with Günther Oettinger (Commissioner)

2 Jul 2015 · Cloud, Big Data, Cybersecurity and High Performance Computing

Meeting with Annika Nowak (Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis)

15 Jun 2015 · Tracing and tracking system

Meeting with Andrus Ansip (Vice-President) and

13 Apr 2015 · DSM and industry, cloud, big data, research

Meeting with Jean-Claude Juncker (President)

16 Feb 2015 · Meeting with Thierry Breton on political priorities of this Commission