Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-07-03-Speech-2-527-875"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2012-07-03"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement between the EU and its Member States, Australia, Canada, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland and the USA (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"et"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20120703.21.2-527-875"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2012-07-03-Speech-2-528-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Siiri Oviir2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; FEMM (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 member; EMPL (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia Parliamentary Cooperation Committees (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member_of_the_bureau; ALDE (2009-07-20--2014-06-30)3 vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2009-09-29--2014-06-30)3 substitute; LIBE (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Sõltumatu (2012-05-25--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Along with the members of my group, I decided to vote against concluding the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) because the trade agreement puts copyright above the right to the protection of privacy, and as a liberal, I find that utterly unacceptable. I based my decision on the negative assessment by the five pertinent committees of the European Parliament. The following are the main areas of controversy to which the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, the Justice Committee, the Committee on Development and the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy drew attention in their assessments: under the pretext of curbing piracy, ACTA gives the authorities great authority to control the Internet; it creates the preconditions for extrajudicial surveillance activity, and mere suspicion is sufficient to transmit sensitive personal information to copyright owners; several concepts that possess a legal dimension are not defined and permit countries to interpret them depending on the interests of the moment; there is a risk that business secrets will be leaked, because the agreement does not guarantee any confidentiality for the relevant information; the objective of preventing counterfeit medicines from entering the market is not achieved, and the agreement would instead limit the availability of cheaper generic medicines; and, of course, the secrecy in which the agreement was drafted. In supporting ACTA, the Commission confirms that the agreement will protect European jobs and innovation, increase economic growth and fight crime and the entry of counterfeit medicines into the market. These are commendable objectives, but there are, unfortunately, serious shortcomings in the technical formulation of the agreement. The fact that the question of whether the rights of citizens might be infringed has been submitted to the European Court of Justice does not relieve us of the obligation to deal with the agreement here and now. There are, after all, other questionable areas in the agreement, such as the inadequate definition of concepts, provisions that allow diverging interpretations, etc."@en1

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