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"Madam President, Mr De Gucht, ladies and gentlemen, the citizens of Europe have been discussing the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) for months, as we also have here in this House. They came to the conclusion that they do not want or need ACTA. They are concerned that ACTA represents a threat to their freedom in the digital world. They are also worried about issues of central data protection.
We have learnt during the course of this debate that the Internet has brought a new dimension to democracy and to our lives. It has become an important aspect of the way in which democracy in the European Union functions, particularly over recent weeks and months. The citizens are pinning all their hopes on the European Parliament and relying on it to defend their interests against the Commission, which has negotiated this agreement, Mr De Gucht, with a mandate from the Council over a period of six years. Two years ago, we insisted that more transparency was needed and we succeeded in bringing the secret ACTA negotiations into the light of day. Now we must not postpone this debate. We must come to a decision. We do not need to wait for the Court of Justice of the European Union, because this concerns the content of the agreement, as other Members have already said. We must decide now.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is about a quite different dimension. We must all work together to bring about change. We live in an age when the ways in which information and knowledge are used are becoming increasingly separated from the concept of private property. We need to develop new structures that will equate to a new legal culture concerning the access to and use of content. Children must acquire an understanding of this area in school. This is the content of the debate about ACTA and it also applies to the debate about the future development of patents, copyright, international trade and economic cooperation in a multilateral and networked world. We also need to discuss this on a multilateral basis with China, Brazil and many other countries within the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) and to come to an agreement about it.
Mr De Gucht, I believe that you are not certain about or fully aware of the revolutionary impact of the Internet. In the case of ACTA, you are continuing to defend a business model from a period in the past when most people still went to a shop to buy records. At that time, it was mainly big non-European companies such as Sony that were making large amounts of money and they treated their artists as if they owned them. Anyone who defends this sort of monopoly is failing to support the interests of the artists. I hope that tomorrow’s vote will be a good moment for democracy and for the importance of the European Parliament and that it will allow us to put an end to ACTA."@en1
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