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"The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is a new international agreement aimed at establishing a general international framework to combat counterfeiting and piracy. The problems which ACTA seeks to address are real and growing: cases relating to intellectual property rights have been costing European companies EUR 250 billion and destroying 185 000 jobs, every year. Nevertheless, the text of ACTA has unwanted consequences and the rapporteur concludes that the text is not sufficiently precise with regard to individual criminalisation, to the definition of ‘commercial-scale’, to the role of Internet service providers or to the possible interruption of the transit of generic medicines. Moreover, if ACTA aims to combat piracy and counterfeiting, its negotiations should and must include countries like India, China and Brazil, where the most serious breaches of intellectual property rights occur. This means the intended benefits of ACTA are clearly outweighed by the potential threats to civil liberties. I voted for this report recommending the rejection of ACTA for the aforementioned reasons and because Parliament cannot ensure adequate protection for the rights of European citizens."@en1
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