[A2k] Google Translation of a Swedish article about transparency and ACTA

[Sina Amoor Pour]

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[ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ]
For those of you that haven't heard Eva-Britt Svensson (left party) put
forward an amendment in the committee on legal affairs (JURI) to make the
Commission release the ACTA documents and the amendment got voted through.

But it has to get voted through in plenum too before the Commission can be
made to release the documents. So the lobbyist are probably really busy
right now, working the MEPs making sure that won't happen.

//Sina, Sweden


On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 9:07 AM, James Love <james.love@keionline.org>wrote:

> This is a Google Translation of a Swedish article about transparency and
> ACTA.  jamie
>
>
> http://www.svd.se/nyheter/inrikes/artikel_2574249.svd
>
> V requires information about Acta
> Published: March 10, 2009, 16.13. Last modified: March 11, 2009, 14.38
>
> EU Commission must put the cards on the table and tell me what you want
> in the negotiations on Trade Acta. It now requires the Swedish MEP
> Eva-Britt Svensson (V). Tomorrow, she can get Parliament to themselves
> in their requirements.
>
> This is Acta
>
> Acta stands for Anti-Counterfeit Trade Agreement.
>
> The initiative for negotiations was taken by the USA and Japan. The
> negotiations are currently participating EU and its Member States,
> Australia, Japan, Canada, USA, Morocco, Mexico, New Zealand,
> Switzerland, Singapore and South Korea.
>
> The next meeting would actually have been held in Rabat in Morocco in
> March, but has been on the U.S. initiative deferred. The reason is that
> the Obama administration must look at the questions.
>
> EU member countries gave in April 2008 a negotiating mandate to the
> Commission. This takes care of that part of the negotiations that fall
> within Community law.
>
> At the same time, Member States have decided that the Presidency - that
> Sweden in the autumn - manages the part of the negotiations that fall
> outside the Community.
>
> According to the Justice Ministry, an agreement is in place before the
> end of this year or next year.
>
> The agreement will strengthen their efforts against piracy and
> counterfeiting - whether it is a Louis Vuitton-bag or a Hollywood film.
> Read more
>
>     * Secret agreements worries hunt pirates
>     * The proposal for ACTA have consulted on,
>     * Our rights and freedoms should not be limited
>
> As previously reported SvD.se growing criticism of the Trade Acta.
> Secrecy is high and few know today as the negotiations on the agreement,
> which will complicate piracy and counterfeiting, really is.
>
> The Swedish Parliament has only nutrition committee briefed on the
> negotiations. Members had read the classified documents, but rejected
> today a request from one individual to publish the classified documents
> that currently are locked in a safe belonging to the Committee.
>
> But despite the offers are not critics. And now, the support from the
> Left Party's MEP Eva-Britt Svensson. She has written an amendment to a
> report on the publicity within the EU to be put to the vote in
> Parliament tomorrow.
>
> The proposal calls for her to EU Commissioners, who together with
> President of the country handle negotiations on the EU side, will tell
> you the requirements and positions they have been in talks on Acta.
>
> - It is an important issue that people need to know. I also understand
> that there are things you can not publish, but you should at least be
> able to tell what their line is, "says Svensson SvD.se.
>
> She does not know what negotiations are all about, but has just as many
> others heard rumors that the customs and police should be allowed to
> search through personal laptops, mobile phones and MP3 players in the
> hunt for such as pirated CDs and movies.
>
> Her proposal comes in the context of the EU Parliament vote tomorrow on
> the so-called Cashman report. It is written by the British MEP Michael
> Cashman and Parliament's response to a Commission proposal to the public
> within the EU.
>
> In Sweden, including Justice Minister Beatrice Ask expressed concern
> that the Commission's proposal in some parts of the public sphere in
> Europe is deteriorating. The Swedish government follows the issue
> closely, but several other members who were formerly of greater
> transparency seems to Beatrice Ask to go on the line.
>
> - There is a lot of it is very labor intensive with transparency and
> that it is administratively difficult, and so on. It is certainly quite
> correct, but the problem will not solve by changing the fundamental
> rights of access to information, "said Ash in parliament EU council in
> February.
>
> Also Eva-Britt Svensson is concerned about the Commission proposal,
> which contains proposals for increased transparency and restrictions in
> public.
>
> - Unfortunately, they made a proposal to narrow the definition of what
> constitutes a "document", and then of course excludes a great many
> cases. But Cashman report some improvements, so I hope the House votes
> on both it and my amendment, "said Eva-Britt Svensson and takes Acta as
> examples.
>
> - I have linked the issue of democracy and the low turnout and argue
> that it does not help to urge people to vote if we do not show them that
> they can inform themselves about the legislation in the EU, "says
> Svensson.
> --
> James Love, Director, Knowledge Ecology International
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