FIRST ACTA, NOW CETA?

• Position: Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement and Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement - Brief article

In an 11 July letter addressed to the President of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, MEP Marc Tarabella (S&D, Belgium) requests an explanation for the fact that the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between the EU and Canada, which is currently being negotiated, incorporates elements of the provisions of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). The European Parliament definitively buried ACTA on 4 July. "Entire paragraphs of the rejected text feature in the future agreement, including those that infringe fundamental freedoms and the protection of personal data" and which concern, more specifically, the...