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"en.20120704.25.3-329-500"2
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"The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) should have been an agreement capable of tackling counterfeiting and piracy without limiting citizens’ freedoms; it should not simply have prevented unfair competition for industry and protected intellectual property rights. Unfortunately, the text examined by the Commission and Parliament did not cover the issues most deeply felt in Italy, namely protection of the protected designation of origin and of geographical indications, or the main counterfeiting countries: China, Brazil and India. The text was so inconsistent that the competent committees, the Committee on International Trade and the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, rejected it, just as a favourable report was rejected in the Committee on Legal Affairs and an unfavourable report was approved in the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. Clearly, in such a negative situation, this measure, which, to be valid, needs to be approved both by the EU Member States and by third countries, could not be adopted in plenary. I decided to abstain because, although I believe the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement protects our businesses and companies, I believe the text in question harms human freedoms and is not suitable for attacking counterfeit markets. This is partly because it does not cover categories of products such as agricultural products, which I think should be protected."@en1
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