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More ACTA Papers Locked AwayThursday, February 5. 2009In my earlier posting from November last year I had reported on the secrecy of the ongoing ACTA negotiations wherein also the EU is involved. Just in order to make clear that important issues are at stake but carefully hidden from the general public, here is a small compilation of papers dated after November 21, 2008, and known to the EU Council but not published up to now:
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Thank you for your call to end the secrecy. Just wanted to point you to a question put by Jens Holm MEP to the Council:
ACTA will contain a new international benchmark for legal frameworks on so called "intellectual property" right enforcement. ACTA is de facto legislation. A spokesman for the US government has said that treaty language will only be made public after the parties have agreed to the actual text [1]. If this is true, Parliaments will not be able to scrutinize ACTA. ACTA will set a precedent of secret legislation, while legislation has to be as open as possible in the EU.
I would like to ask the council the following questions:
Will the final draft be published prior to Political Agreement in the Council?
Will Parliaments have enough time to scrutinize ACTA prior to Political Agreement in the Council?
Can the council ensure that ACTA is not passed silently during Parliamentary recess?
[1] http://ictsd.net/i/news/bridgesweekly/30876/
I don't have a EP url to the question yet, but here is what was sent in to the EP services: http://www.erikjosefsson.eu/sites/default/files/fraagaraadet20090205acta.pdf
You can request then anyway on grounds of EC/1049/2001. The council secretariat will answer you. Furthermore Parliament decided that exemptions don't apply.
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