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"Mr President, I originally wanted to thank Commissioner Karl De Gucht for breaking with the approach of his predecessor, who circumvented the European Parliament as the only directly-elected European institution and failed to provide information on the process of negotiating this agreement, but I feel rather embarrassed because I was always brought up to show respect for important personages and the fact that Mr De Gucht was ostentatiously cleaning his glasses while my colleague Mr Kamall was standing here has therefore quite thrown me. Nevertheless, I will now turn to the matter in hand.
Personally, I welcome the fact that this agreement is coming into being, since intellectual property deserves better protection than is currently the case. Despite this, I am concerned that the signatories to the agreement do not include Russia and China, who are the main source of copyright violations. I also have concerns over the actual effectiveness of this agreement. Since the content of the agreement is always veiled in a kind of mist, as many Members have mentioned here, I would like to call on the Commission, which is negotiating the agreement on behalf of the Member States, to ensure that it does not serve as an instrument for exporting the French digital guillotine to other states and, at the same time, does not become an importer of software patents into the European Union."@en1
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