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<strong>EU Member States –represented by the Council of the EU–
adopt today the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), which
aims at imposing new criminal sanctions and privatized online
censorship in the name of copyright. The text will now be sent to
the European Parliament, which has a chance to oppose it. Citizens
must act to ensure their freedoms online are protected by having
ACTA finally rejected.</strong>
<p>After the adoption of the legal instrument allowing its signature
by the EU Council this afternoon<a class="see-footnote"
id="footnoteref1_mjaj4y9" title="See the EU Council agenda for
today:
http://www.consilium.europa.eu/ueDocs/cms_Data/docs/pressData/EN/foraff/...
“The Council is expected to adopt a decision authorising the
signing of an anti-counterfeiting trade agreement (ACTA) between
the EU and Australia, Canada, Japan, the Republic of Korea,
Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland and the
United States.”"
href="https://www.laquadrature.net/en/acta-adopted-by-eu-governments-now-in-eu-parliaments-hands#footnote1_mjaj4y9">1</a>,
the ACTA agreement will be formally signed this weekend by
European governments, during a <a
href="http://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/minist_e/min11_e/min11_e.htm">meeting</a>
of the World Trade Organization in Geneva<a class="see-footnote"
id="footnoteref2_l1mawad" title="Information about this meeting:
http://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/minist_e/min11_e/min11_e.htm"
href="https://www.laquadrature.net/en/acta-adopted-by-eu-governments-now-in-eu-parliaments-hands#footnote2_l1mawad">2</a>.
This signature marks the beginning of the next phase, where ACTA
will be headed towards the EU Parliament, which will accept or
reject it in the next months, after elaborating its report<a
class="see-footnote" id="footnoteref3_94udd9a" title="The
International Trade (INTA) Committee of the European Parliament
is the main committee working on ACTA. The Legal Affairs (JURI)
and Development (DEVE) committees, as well as the Civil
Liberties (LIBE), Industry (ITRE) committees will first vote on
their opinions. The latter will be sent to INTA to influence its
final report. See ACTA's procedure file:
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/file.jsp?id=5924982"
href="https://www.laquadrature.net/en/acta-adopted-by-eu-governments-now-in-eu-parliaments-hands#footnote3_94udd9a">3</a>.</p>
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