Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-07-04-Speech-3-315-687"
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"There is no doubt that the ACTA agreement attempts to resolve real problems in the global economy. The scale of breaches of copyright is immense and no one can deny this. European companies are losing out on this too and, to be frank, no one is able to estimate the real costs. However, I voted against the ACTA, as this agreement is not a good solution for this problem. The potential threat to civil rights significantly exceeds the planned benefits accruing from its conclusion. No one knows how individual provisions would be interpreted and no one can guarantee that these would not impact on individual Internet users. This is a sufficiently important issue that the European Parliament should act to defend citizens’ rights and freedoms. This is something that we should bear in mind when voting on this agreement. If the European Commission and the governments of certain Member States believe that it is necessary to protect the interests of European businesses, then they should find a new instrument. First of all, however, they should make sure that in future negotiations there is real participation by the European Parliament as well as by public stakeholders. It should be remembered that the main source of failure in this agreement is the method in which it was prepared. If, right from the beginning, an attempt had been made to work out a compromise that took into account the interests of all parties, then today we would have had a global understanding to protect our economy and not a Europe-wide discussion about threats to civil liberties."@en1
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