8/27/2009
The ACTA negotiations
Many GACG members have welcomed the negotiations for a new Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), and several members have co-signed the various business memoranda (five altogether to co-incide with the meetings of the negotiators) on ACTA together with other stakeholders such as INTA, ECTA and other "Concerned business groups operating in ACTA nations". The most recent memorandum was submitted immediately prior to the latest round held in Rabat, Morocco on 16/17 July 2009. Eleven participating countries attended, and discussions centred on International Co-operation, Institutional Issues and Enforcement Practices, including transparency matters such as providing information to stakeholders and the interested public. The GACG Network was also represented at the EU Commission briefing to stakeholders held in Brussels on 21 May 2009 and the Chairman circulated a detailed report to members. The next round of negotiations will be hosted by the Republic of Korea in November 2009, and the intention is to conclude the agreement as soon as possible in 2010. Enforcement in the digital environment remains one of the more challenging elements yet to be tackled, and apparently a coalition of leading library, civil rights, and technology companies has just written to the U.S. government, urging it to drop all Internet provisions from ACTA.
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