[Chapter-delegates] ACTA did not fare well today...

[Christine Runnegar]

Hi all.
 
Thank you Alejandro.
 
 
As a follow-up to Alejandro's email, here is some further recent news
regarding ACTA:
 
- The 11th round of negotiations in Japan last week has been described by
the negotiating parties as the final round of negotiations
 
- The negotiating parties will shortly be releasing a "consolidated and
largely finalized text of the proposed agreement"
 
(See
http://www.ustr.gov/about-us/press-office/press-releases/2010/october/ustr-r
eleases-statement-acta-negotiating-partners)
 
- Four European Members of Parliament - Stavros Lambrinidis (Parliament VP,
S&D, Greece), Francoise Castex (S&D, France), Zuzana Roithova (EPP, Czech
Republic) and Alexander Alvaro (ALDE, Germany) released the following
statement on Monday:

"These contradictory remarks highlight exactly what is wrong with treating
matters of such importance and sensitivity beneath a veil of secrecy. It
appears that there is no credible way of knowing whether the negotiations
are actually concluded or not.  
 
In case the agreement has indeed been initialled, we demand from the
Commission to present the final ACTA text to the European Parliament as soon
as it is procedurally possible. It is the Parliament that will ultimately
have to decide on rejecting or accepting the agreement, and a complete and
thorough briefing of its Members is now more urgent than ever. 
 
Accordingly, we also call on Council and Commission not to proceed to any
provisional application of the agreement, before the European Parliament has
been given the chance to express its consent on the issue."

Further details here:
http://www.lambrinidis.gr/PSE/index.php?pathID=1_997_1170
<http://www.lambrinidis.gr/PSE/index.php?pathID=1_997_1170&aid=3157>
&aid=3157
 
 
 
Please help us follow this issue by keeping us informed about ACTA
developments in your local region.

For further information on ACTA, please see
<http://www.isoc.org/internet/issues/acta.shtml>
http://www.isoc.org/internet/issues/acta.shtml.

Best regards,

Christine
______________________

Christine Runnegar
Senior Manager Public Policy
Internet Society
Galerie Jean-Malbuisson 15
CH-1204 Geneva
Switzerland

Tel: +41 22 807 1455
www.isoc.org 


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[mailto:chapter-delegates-bounces at elists.isoc.org] On Behalf Of Desiree
Miloshevic
Sent: 6 October 2010 1:34 AM
To: Alejandro Pisanty
Cc: Chapter Delegates
Subject: Re: [Chapter-delegates] ACTA did not fare well today...


Hi Alejandro 

Thank you for keeping us abreast with the developments in Mexico.

I found this Google translate link very useful http://bit.ly/mexico-acta 

Best

Desiree
--

On 5 Oct 2010, at 21:53, Alejandro Pisanty wrote:


Hi,

a few minutes ago, the Senate of Mexico approved unanimously an agreement
to:

1. form a plural group of Senators to study ACTA;

2. have this group call for public discussions and consultations on ACTA;

3. request that the Executive suspend negotiations of ACTA until the
consultations are made.

We have had a small participation in this through our constant interaction
with a leading Senator and the Senate's Science and Technology Commission,
which he chairs.

During the session today I made a call for a moratorium instead of an
all-out all-or-nothing motion by a group of Senators that just called for
the Government to retire from the Agreement, which was very unlikely to
pass.

Others will be better informed as to our degree of influence. The good thing
is the real-time news that the vote passed... and ACTA didn't.

Formally the Senate has no immediate say on treaties. Like elsewhere, it is
supposed to wait till it they are signed, then ratify. However, a recent law
does obligate the Executive to inform the Senate as treaties are being
negotiated. That was grounds enough to give today's vote some teeth.

The story is only beginning...

Yours,

Alx


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