ACTA

What is ACTA?

Behind closed doors the EU, US and Japan negotiate an Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). No drafts are published. ACTA will contain a new international benchmark for legal frameworks on the enforcement of copyrights, trade mark rights, patents and other so called intellectual property rights. According to the European Commission's website, a "path breaking" agreement is foreseen. For this reason the Commission likes to work outside the normal formal structures. Public interest organisations are concerned ACTA may limit access to medicines, limit access to the internet, give patent trolls free reign and harm the most innovative sectors of the economy.

ACTA workgroup description

The FFII does not have an ACTA workgroup. For the time being, the IPRED2 workgroup addresses ACTA.

The goal of this workgroup is to make ACTA known to the public, provide analysis and to influence the political decision process.

FFII analysis

FFII ACTA analysis Both the European Parliament and the EU Member States have vetoes on aspects of the ACTA

FFII Press Releases

FFII EU Ombudsman complaint

Council position

FFII observations on Council position

Additional remarks

links

Leaked documents, meetings ...

Knowledge Ecology International

Main developments

IP justice ACTA campaign

Open letter 100 groups

ICC

Canadian document

Leaked discussion paper.... Google txt

Keionline: Details of the ACTA emerge

Canada's ACTA Briefing, Part Two: The Treaty Provisions

Putting Together the ACTA Puzzle: Privacy, P2P Major Targets

Secretive ACTA Negotiations under Scrutiny

NDA

Intellectual property enforcement initiatives threaten consumer rights and public health

TACD resolution

Stringent intellectual property rules could hamper the spread of technology needed to fight climate change, an advisor to European Union policy-makers has warned

European Union

EU mandate

Commission documents

Commission website Q & A

EU: Summary of key elements under discussion in the on-going ACTA negotiations

Effects on developing countries

European Parliament resolution 18 December 2008 - - - (IP Watch)

European Parliament resolution 11 March 2009 - - - (Straight.com)

MEP Jens Holm Parliamentary question and answer

Agreement to keep the ACTA secret

EU mandate leaked

Search: Council: 133 (title), acta (text)

Search: Council: anti-counterfeiting trade agreement (in title)

Search: Council: anti-counterfeiting trade agreement (in text)

U.S.

U.S Trade Representative

U.S. Trade Representative brief

U.S Senate letter

EFF submission

Seizures of generic medicine

General article on IP-Watch: Alarm Escalates Over Delayed Generic Drug Shipments As Action Sought

Health Action International (HAI) website frontpage contains some statements by HAI on the subject

NGO letter to WTO

Joint HAI Europe/Oxfam Novib Open Letter to Dutch Ministries on generic medicines seizure

Other governments

Japan

New Zealand

Access to documents U.S.

U.S. "cleared advisors"

FOIA: Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)

http://www.eff.org/fn/directory/6661/328

http://www.eff.org/fn/directory/6661/329

Declaration of Stanford McCoy, Assistant United States Trade Representative for Intellectual Property and Innovation Shows corporate lobbyists have access

U.S. DoJ Motion for Summary Judgment Shows corporate lobbyists have access

Media coverage

Contact information

You can contact the workgroup at ipred2@ffii.org.

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