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"This brings to a close – for now – the rocky road followed by the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). This process has mobilised a considerable body of public opinion throughout Europe, and elsewhere, prompting public debate about ACTA and reporting some of its dangers and consequences. This mobilisation and these debates were all the more important, since the Commission has spent the entire process avoiding democratic debate and scrutiny, and conducting negotiations with great secrecy; that alone is reason enough for our mistrust of ACTA’s content. We believe counterfeiting needs to be combated, in particular the counterfeiting which has been going on in the EU of products such as Port wine – and other wines – or textile products, which hits Portugal so hard, and which is inextricably bound up with the policies of the EU itself in relation to, for example, farming and trade. However, we cannot support – and we stoutly condemn – an agreement establishing measures to monitor and spy on the public, ranging from monitoring of computer data through Internet service providers to checking personal baggage. This is an unacceptable breach of the public’s privacy, which violates the free movement of information and knowledge. Furthermore, this agreement could have implications for areas as varied as access to medicine and seeds."@en1
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