New arguments for German ACTA opponents who want to demonstrate on Saturday: the Latvian Government seeks the dialogue before presenting the Parliament ACTA. Poland and the Czech Republic now Latvia has suspended for the time being the ratification of the trade agreement ACTA. The Latvian Economics Minister Daniel's Pavluts will present the agreement the Parliament in Riga, not put to the vote, was announced by the Department of Commerce.
In view of the critical atmosphere in certain parts of the company and of the concerns of experts it would require first a constructive and rational dialogue with the various stakeholders, it was said in the press release.
Latvia and 21 additional EU Member States had signed the ACTA in January. Least resistance to the rules and regulations had been formed in the Baltic country but increasingly, that is intended to prevent copyright infringement on the Internet, and counterfeiting.
Germany wide should be demonstrated next Saturday against ACTA. Yet, the Federal Government has not signed the agreement. Said Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger (FDP) but no prompt to change the current legal position will derive from the agreement: the Treaty provides neither a tightening of liability for Internet service providers before even touching the German or European privacy policy.
.Stephan Urbach of the Pirate Party in Berlin, however, fears with ACTA it could at least more likely become, that provider will block access to sharing their customers. ACTA provokes other fears, some searches of private laptops at the border.
ACTA stands for anti-counterfeiting trade agreement - anti-counterfeiting trade agreement. It aims to improve the protection of intellectual property. On the one hand we are talking to classical cases such as the container with fake adidas sneakers from the far East. The damage caused by counterfeit goods in Europe amounts according to the EU Commission per year to eight billion euros – with all the consequences that has for competition and jobs. ACTA opponents focus above all on the way and the feared impact on the Internet as the agreement came about - namely, in secret negotiations between politics and industry lobbyists.
So, the States facing copyright infringement on the Web according to ACTA article to promote 27 in cooperation in economic life. What could it mean concretely, looks so pirate Urbach: A music group agreed with an Internet service provider, that it blocks access to certain sharing its customers. It would then regardless of whether the Internet user in this Exchange exchanging photos and movies of his hobbies or illegally produced copies about movies or music.
The operator of the platform stoppacta therefore show, Internet users feared before a massive invasion of their privacy. And the Green MEP Jan Philipp Albrecht says: Acta contains new powers for customs authorities, which can lead to anlasslosen searches of laptops and MP3 players for private travellers.
Get also a stricter law enforcement of private suspected copyright infringers by ACTA Tailwind, believes the Hanoverian Law Professor Axel Metzger. Although ACTA on most points remain quite common, for future laws, but above all the industry could rely on this new framework - and the lawyer thinks users and consumers, not. His conclusion: acta is not balanced.
.The Commission has negotiated the Treaty on behalf of the Union with other countries such as United States and Japan considers misleading criticism. It was the global fixing of standards that already apply in the EU a spokesman repeated this week. ACTA would not sever the Internet access or censor any Web pages.
The European Parliament can still stop ACTA. The chances are not bad, indicated Jan Philipp Albrecht on Twitter. Also the CDU MEP Daniel Caspary wants the agreement to the concerns of the critics out accurate checking and if necessary block help. So far however, noted members of the Parliament, of the legal service of the Parliament have found no restriction of civil rights by ACTA.
