The controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) today finally got rejected. The EU Parliament did the voting today with votes was one-sided, with 478 votes against, 146 abstentions, and only 39 in favor. Earlier also the International Trade Committee voted against ACTA. Overall, the fact is still EU Parliament still can decide if ACTA need to come into existence...
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Big news coming from ACTA front: The controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) has been rejected by the International Trade Committee. Nineteen MEPs voted against ACTA, and twelve in favour, with no abstentions.David Martin after the vote results were announced said that “I welcome the result of today’s vote. I am pleased that the committee...
The long-heated controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) met with disapproval as three parliamentary committees voted on their recommendation on 31 May. In order for ACTA to enter into force in the EU, it will have to be approved by the Parliament and the Council as well as ratified by all member states. Now, Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) are...
Today, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) adopted Opinion on the proposal for a Council Decision on the conclusion of the long known controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). It underlines that many of the measures to strengthen IP enforcement online could involve the large scale monitoring of users’ behaviour and of their electronic...
Remember the long known ACTA, the controversial anti-counterfeit and copyright treaty is one step closer to being thrown out after the guiding “rapporteur” for the treaty warned fellow parliamentarians not to pass the agreement in Europe’s 27 member states. The blow that could derail the European efforts to ratify the agreement came as new rapporteur David Martin...
The European Commission has announced Wednesday its plans to refer the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) treaty to the European Court of Justice in order to examine whether it violates the fundamental rights – counterfeiting, copyright and Internet freedom, of Europeans or not. The ACTA agreement was signed by the European Union and 22 member...
Whilst Twenty-two of the European countries have already signed the Anti-Counterfeiting Trademark Agreement, commonly known as ACTA, European’s biggest economy country – Germany – will hold off signing the treaty unless and until the EU parliamentary decision will come into affect before moving ahead. German publication Spiegel.de reports, “In Germany, the Treaty,...
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