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What is ACTA?
Behind closed doors, the European Union, United States, Japan and other governments are negotiating the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. ACTA will contain new international norms for the enforcement of copyrights, trade mark rights, patents and other exclusive rights.
ACTA workgroup description
The ACTA workgroup of the FFII is run by Ante Wessels. For the time being, the ACTA WG activities overlap with the IPRED2 workgroup (IP Enforcement), but ACTA also affects other domains such as network regulation.
The goal of the workgroup is to raise awareness about ACTA, ensure public scrutiny and broad democratic debate, provide analysis and to monitor the political decision process.
You can contact the workgroup at ipred2@ffii.org.
ACTA blog
For recent developments, see our ACTA blog
FFII analysis
FFII ACTA analysis (Our main page)
FFII EU Ombudsman complaint | Council position | FFII observations on Council position | Additional remarks
Unconstitutional aspects (prior to Lisbon Treaty)
Presentation Ante Wessels at HAR 2009 text - slides - video
Other Trade Agreements, same problems
links
Main sites
Knowledge Ecology International
Analysis
ACTA - Australian Section by Section Analysis
Trading away access to medicine
Open letter 100 groups (September 2008)
European Union
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
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 brief - - - p2pnet
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
Joint HAI Europe/Oxfam Novib Open Letter to Dutch Ministries on generic medicines seizure
Other governments
Access to documents U.S.
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
NGO Letter to USTR on transparency
