Civil Society Groups Warn EU On ACTA

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An external set of polite guild groups nowadays sent a missive to the European Union swop commissioner outlining concerns that the modish, leaked, reading of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement nether talks leave present “new and demented intellect attribute rules” which “would excuse rabid and erroneous enforcement of rational place for medicines and thereby beat a risk to world wellness, spell doing footling to protect consumers from dangerous products.” Oxfam International, Health Action International (Europe), Knowledge Ecology International, Public Citizen and Vrijschrift endorsed a 29 July missive to Directorate General Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht and his colleagues summarising seven-spot alarming aspects of the nigh late ACTA. The groups called upon the officials to behaviour an elf appraisal of the proposed laws and to be thrifty in proceedings to negociate ACTA’s damage.

The civic club missive is useable hither [pdf].

By Leslee Friedman for Intellectual Property Watch

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