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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is fundamental for achieving full harmonisation of the measures to protect European trade from counterfeiting and piracy. The ACTA negotiations concern sensitive European legislative issues such as guaranteeing the application of intellectual property rights, data transmission and data protection, and this is why we are once again requesting greater transparency.
The Commission must commit itself fully, in accordance with the level of confidentiality. The current negotiating texts must be made available to Parliament so that it can supervise the agreements and possibly offer suggestions to ACTA participants. The Commissioner’s words this evening give us hope, but we want those words to be acted on.
Parliament has always fought to defend European consumers and manufacturers against counterfeiting and measures that infringe Internet privacy. That is why it is vitally important for the Commission to continue to play an active role in the current negotiations, attracting a greater number of participants; there are, unfortunately, only twelve at present. We hope that an increasing number of countries – developing and emerging countries alike – will be tempted to take part in the negotiations and to sign the final agreement, so as to allow for a broader perspective on matters.
Countries must abide by and respect their shared obligations so as to combat counterfeiting and piracy more effectively. This economic scourge is destroying many manufacturing sectors that work in compliance with the rules. Therefore consumers, who are exposed to significant dangers to their health as well, must be provided with clear rules because, Commissioner, in the absence of clear and enforced rules, including for Internet use, the Internet will no longer represent an opportunity; rather, it will have a boomerang effect. We must all make a commitment to stop this happening because this is not only a question of individual privacy; it is also a question of our countries’ security."@en1
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