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"Providing better protection for the intellectual property rights belonging to European producers involved in global trade is of paramount importance. Eliminating counterfeiting in the commercial sector and online piracy will enable us to help boost economic activity. At the same time, it will reduce the risks to people’s health posed by the consumption of counterfeit medicines, for example.
However, the way in which the ACTA aims to protect copyright raises some doubts, especially as the negotiations on this agreement have been conducted in a far from transparent manner. The benefits which the text will produce appear to be far less than the potential dangers to civil liberties. The vagueness of certain aspects of the agreement and the uncertainty about its interpretation, which may lead to abuses committed by the authorities, must give us food for thought.
In these circumstances, as representatives of Europe’s citizens, we cannot guarantee suitable protection for fundamental rights based on ACTA, and many of the agreement’s terms need to be clarified. Consequently, the ACTA text can only receive Parliament’s vote when the grey areas on the agreement’s scope and the protection of personal freedoms are cleared up in order to avoid any undesirable interpretations."@en1
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