[Chapter-delegates] Dutch parliament freezes signing ACTA

[Md.Jahangir Hossain]

Good News Michiel !!!







Thanks

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On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:39 AM, Ted Mooney <mooney at isoc.org> wrote:

> Excellent news, Marcin.  Thanks.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: chapter-delegates-bounces at elists.isoc.org
> [mailto:chapter-delegates-bounces at elists.isoc.org] On Behalf Of Marcin
> Cieslak
> Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 6:11 AM
> To: Michiel Leenaars
> Cc: Chapter Delegates
> Subject: Re: [Chapter-delegates] Dutch parliament freezes signing ACTA
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> On Wed, 15 Feb 2012, Michiel Leenaars wrote:
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> > Hi all,
> >
> > good news from our side of the planet. As you may have seen Dutch
> > parliament has voted against ratifying ACTA for now yesterday.
>
> here's what I got from Ante Wessels of FFII:
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> From: Ante <ante at ffii.org>
> To: Marcin Cieslak <saper at saper.info>
> Cc: a2k at lists.keionline.org
> Subject: Re: [A2k] Dutch Parliament asks government not to sign ACTA
>
> On Wednesday 15 February 2012 10:39:17 Marcin Cieslak wrote:
> > On Wed, 15 Feb 2012, Ante wrote:
> > > Dutch Parliament asks government not to sign ACTA
> > > http://acta.ffii.org/?p=1169
> > > with link
> >
> > How binding is this?
> >
> > We've had two similar resolutions of parliamentary commissions
> > here in Poland just before the signature and it didn't help.
>
> The parliament (plenary) "asks" the minister, this is not binding.
>
> It does put pressure on the minister. Normally, the groups supporting the
> government, vote for government proposals.
>
> We have a special situation in NL at the moment, a minority government.
> They
>
> normally do have a majority, since one parliamentary group supports the
> government (while not having any minister). This group, the PVV, yesterday
> voted for the resolution.
>
> The minister may decide to sign ACTA regardless of the adopted resolution.
> But
> then the parliament may more easily decide to not ratify ACTA. The minister
> can not blame the parliament, and especially the PVV, to be disloyal, since
> then he was disloyal to parliament himself when he signed ACTA.
>
> vriendelijke groet,
> cordialmente,
>
> Ante
>
> //forwarded by Marcin
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