[p2p-research] Fwd: [fcf_discussion] Green response to pro-ACTA vote in EP

[Michel Bauwens]

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 *Press release - 24 November 2010*


*Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)*

*Centre-right MEPs write blank cheque on ACTA; vote threatens civil
liberties in EU*


The European Parliament today adopted a resolution on the
Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), which was finalised last week.
Green MEPs criticised the resolution, which was passed by a narrow
centre-right majority, as ignoring the real concerns with ACTA. After the
vote, Green civil liberties expert *Jan Philipp Albrecht* (Germany) said:


*"This resolution is a blank cheque for the Commission. It ignores the
concerns that have been consistently voiced over the past weeks by experts
and Members of Parliament that ACTA could impair civil liberties and the
access to information and medicines. ACTA urgently needs improvement in the
area of copyright and patent enforcement. The Greens will continue to demand
legal clarification from the European Court of Justice. We have submitted a
motion to this effect in the EP's legal affairs committee."*


Austrian Green and member of the EP legal affairs committee *Eva
Lichtenberger* added:


*"Worst of all, the resolution does not even demand an impact assessment
from the Commission to check if ACTA is in line with current EU law and to
what extent. This demand by the Greens would have given MEPs the opportunity
to judge the agreement on a factual basis. Blind trust towards the
Commission has never been a good recipe. Moreover, it does not reflect the
new role of the European Parliament under the Treaty of Lisbon. This is not
the final word: a majority for the ACTA agreement in the final vote next
year is thankfully not guaranteed, considering today's tight result."*

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Richard More O'Ferrall,
Press and media officer,
Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament
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