[Chapter-delegates] Free Trade Agreements: Backdoor to Internet Governance?

[Jozef Halbersztadt]

Marcin Cieslak pisze:
 > While working on my research on ACTA I have found the following 
passages in
 > the recent free trade agreements between the United States and Korea
 > and the US and Oman:
 > (...)
 > To all those participating in the IGF process: was this subject discussed
 > during the IGF sessions? What is ISOC position on this practice?
 >



http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-144960/call-the-obama-administration-and-ask-for-your-copy-of-acta-now

"Members of the public with questions about the summary or the status
of the negotiations should contact Kira Alvarez, Chief Negotiator and
Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Intellectual Property
Enforcement at (202) 395-4510."

You can call and ask for the copy of ACTA.

Especially to the US citizens is available a petition to President 
Obama, asking that the negotiations regarding ACTA be made more transparent.
http://keionline.org/acta-petition


On Dec. 1 the EU Lisbon Treaty will enter into force. That day, the 
Members of the European Parliament will be able to read all secret ACTA 
documents.

Article 218.10 of the Lisbon Treaty reads: "The European Parliament 
shall be immediately and fully informed at all stages of the procedure."

The European Parliament asked for ACTA documents twice. (Resolution of 
on the impact of counterfeiting on international trade, 18 December 
2008, Regulation regarding public access to documents, 11 March 2009)

Now the Parliament does not have to ask any more. Or, will the Lisbon 
Treaty be violated from day one?


Jozef Halbersztadt
ISOC-PL