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ACTA in Europarl INTA committee
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| A now very self-confident Trade Committee
| INTA of the European Parliament cratered
| the European top ACTA negotiator Luc
| Devigne from the Commission DG Trade (Wed
| 24 Feb 2010). Devigne took the interesting
| legal position that only their âEU
| negotiation positionâ has to reflect the
| acquis, not the scope of the ACTA
| negotiations as a whole.
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http://arebentisch.wordpress.com/2010/02/25/acta-in-europarl-inta-committee/
Written Declaration presented today in Brussels
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| "ACTA is legislation laundering on an
| international scale, trying to covertly
| push through what could never be passed in
| most national parliaments" declared the
| socialist Member of the European
| Parliament Lambrinidis in his presentation
| of a written declaration that aims at
| establishing the official oppositon to
| ACTA of EuropeÂs elected representatives.
| He also criticized ACTAÂs intention of
| "systematic monitoring of citizens in the
| hands of internet service providers,
| giving them more power than police have in
| anti-terror operations".
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http://www.davidhammerstein.com/article-opposition-to-acta-growing-rapidly-in-brussels-45614348.html
MEPS opposition to secretive Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement grows
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| Four MEPs are spearheading a campaign to
| force the European Commission to release
| documents relating to the ACTA
| negotiations that have been kept from
| lawmakers. Led by FranÃoise Castex (S&D)
| they complain that they heard about the
| negotiations from reading the press and
| are concerned that the Commission is not
| informing Parliament and claim it has no
| mandate to negotiate a multinational
| treaty.
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http://www.neurope.eu/articles/99294.php
Growing Concern From European Officials Over ACTA
http://techdirt.com/articles/20100225/0030198297.shtml
Recent:
EU Data Protection Supervisor Warns Against ACTA, Calls 3 Strikes Disproportionate
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| Peter Hustinx, the European Data Protection
| Supervisor, has issued a 20-page opinion
| expressing concern about ACTA. The opinion
| is a must-read and points to the prospect
| of other privacy commissioners speaking
| out. Moreover, with the French HADOPI
| three strikes law currently held up by its
| data protection commissioner, it raises
| questions about whether that law will pass
| muster under French privacy rules.
|
| Given the secrecy associated with the
| process, the opinion addresses possible
| outcomes based on the information currently
| available. The opinion focuses on three
| key issues: three strikes legislation,
| cross-border data sharing as part of
| enforcement initiatives, and transparency.
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http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4809/125/
ACTA: No time for internet chapter in Mexico
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| Here is the meat:
|
| The civil enforcement chapter was
| discussed very thoroughly. It was
| possible to agree additional language,
| but when entering into the detail of
| the different mechanisms (provisional
| measures, injunctions, calculation of
| damages) progress became slow due to
| the different technical concepts of
| each legal system.
|
| âDue to lack of time, internet
| discussions could not be concluded.â
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http://arebentisch.wordpress.com/2010/02/17/acta-no-time-for-internet-chapter-in-mexico/
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