Rapport Gallo Amendments

Draft Report
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/activities/committees/draftReports/comparlDossier.do?dossier=JURI%2F7%2F01257&language=EN

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The number of the amendment is colored and the signs point out to the nature of the recommendation: * -- : must be rejected; liberty-killer amendment * - : should rather be rejected, bad amendment * . : neutral, often a "cosmetic" amendment * + : should rather be adopted, positive amendment * ++ : must be adopted, amendment essential to the protection of rights and freedoms

Horizontal amendment -
Or. {EN}en

Justification: An all encompassing expression like “IPR infringement” is as likely to lead to abusive actions against alleged infringers as the word “piracy”. To be acceptable this amendment should replace “piracy” by “wilful for-profit infringement of trademarks and copyright”.

Compromise amendment 1 +
Recital A

Or. {EN}en

Justification: In reality an objective and independent assessment is needed not only on the scale of IPR infringements but also on the negation and positive impacts and on possible alternative measures. However, the acknowledgement that existing figures mentioned are not substantiated is positive, and we recommend adopting this amendment.

Compromise amendment 2 --
Recital G

Or. {EN}en

Justification: This amendment reveals that the rapporteur sole real focus is on fighting on-line file sharing, As there is no distinction between for-profit activities and non-commercial sharing between individuals this would open the door to measures that endanger fundamental freedoms and access to culture.

Compromise amendment 3 -
Recital J

Or. {EN}en

Justification: To be acceptable, the amendment should state for which forms of IPR infringements and clarify that there is no proven, nor even hinted connection between organised crime and not-for-profit copyright infringement.

Compromise amendment 4 --
Paragraph 1

Or. {EN}en

Justification: This amendment calls in reality for reintroducing extra-judicial measures ("non-legislative") the IPRED2 directive or other texts that criminalize IPR infringements in an indiscriminate manner and create penal sanctions for inciting or abetting or provision of technical means that can be potentially used for infringement. In addition if opens the door to a confusion between generic drugs (sometimes alleged to infringe patents or other titles) and life-endangering fake drugs.

Compromise amendment 5 -
Paragraph 2

Or. {EN}en

Justification: It is not just the promotion of IPR that is needed to help creators to earn a living and disseminating their works, but the promotion of all means that contribute to this aim.

Compromise amendment 6
Paragraph 2 a (new)

Or. {EN}en

Justification: The lack of mention of articles regarding freedom of expression and communication raises severe concerns is in contradiction with the Constitutional or conventional case law of several Member States and with previous resolutions of the European Parliament.

If one wants to quote article 17, one should also mention that article 17.1 states “everyone has the right to own, use, dispose and bequeath his or her lawfully acquired possessions”, a provision that is very relevant to the rights of use of digital representations of works.

However, the mention of articles on fundamental rights to a fair trial and privacy is positive, and we appeal to the wisdom of MEPs on what is the best choice regarding this amendment.

Compromise amendment 7 -
Paragraph 6

Or. {EN}en

Justification: Same comments as for AMC 4.

Compromise amendment 8 -
Paragraph 9

Or. {EN}en

Justification: If the role of the Observatory is to prepare a basis for legislative or regulatory proposals, the introduction of a specific report on police and custom measures unduly restricts the scope of solutions for which the Observatory will produce statistics and data.

Compromise amendment 9 – or °
Paragraph 10

Or. {EN}en

Justification: The amendment defines a focus for research compilation that is narrower than in many of the amendments it intends to replace. Is is however closer to acceptable than other fake compromise amendments.

Compromise amendment 10 --
Paragraph 13

Or. {EN}en

Justification: Same comments as for AMC 2. In addition, this amendment is in total contradiction with what is stated in AMC1: it calls for a propaganda campaign based on statements that are known to be unsubstantiated.

Compromise amendment 11 --
Paragraph 15

Or. {EN}en

Justification: Same comments as for AMC2.

Compromise amendment 12 –
Title after paragraph 15

Or. {EN}en

Justification: Same comments as for AMC2.

Compromise amendment 13 –
Title after paragraph 27

Or. {EN}en

Justification: The reference to on-line infringements in a context relating to organized crime introduces a dangerous confusion between organised crime and non-for-profit file sharing between individuals.

Amendment n°1 +
Stavros Lambrinidis

Motion for a resolution

Citation (new)

Or. {EN}en

Amendment n°2 +
Christian Engström

Motion for a resolution

Citation (new)

Or. {EN}en

Amendment n°3 +
Françoise Castex

Motion for a resolution

Citation (new)

Or. {EN}en

Amendment n°4 +
Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg, Françoise Castex, Bernhard Rapkay, Cecilia Wikström, Christian Engström

Motion for a resolution

Citation (new)

Or. {EN}en

Amendment n°5
Françoise Castex

Motion for a resolution

Citation (new)

Or. {EN}en

Amendment n°6 +
Stavros Lambrinidis

Motion for a resolution

Recital A

Or. {EN}en

Amendment n°7 ++
Françoise Castex, Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg, Luigi Berlinguer, Antonio Masip Hidalgo, Bernhard Rapkay, Stavros Lambrinidis, Cecilia Wikström, Christian Engström

Motion for a resolution

Recital A

Or. {EN}en

Amendment n°8
Françoise Castex, Stavros Lambrinidis

Motion for a resolution

Recital A a (new)

Or. {FR}fr

Amendment n°9 -
Arlene McCarthy

Motion for a resolution

Recital A a (new)

Or. {EN}en

Amendment n°10 +
Françoise Castex, Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg, Luigi Berlinguer, Antonio Masip Hidalgo, Bernhard Rapkay, Stavros Lambrinidis

Motion for a resolution

Recital A b (new)

Or. {FR}fr

Amendment n°11 ++
Françoise Castex, Stavros Lambrinidis, Cecilia Wikström

Motion for a resolution

Recital A c (new)

Or. {FR}fr

Amendment n°12 ++
Françoise Castex, Cecilia Wikström, Christian Engström

Motion for a resolution

Recital A d (new)

Or. {FR}fr

Amendment n°13
Luis Yáñez-Barnuevo García

Motion for a resolution

Recital B a (new)

Or. {ES}es

Amendment n°14 ++
Françoise Castex, Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg, Luigi Berlinguer, Bernhard Rapkay, Christian Engström

Motion for a resolution

Recital C

Or. {EN}en

Amendment n°15
Françoise Castex, Bernhard Rapkay

Motion for a resolution

Recital E

Or. {FR}fr

Amendment n°16 -
Toine Manders

Motion for a resolution

Recital E a (new)

Or. {EN}en

Amendment n°17 ++
Françoise Castex, Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg, Luigi Berlinguer, Antonio Masip Hidalgo, Bernhard Rapkay, Christian Engström

Motion for a resolution

Recital F

Or. {EN}en

Justification

''The creative industries have long been presuming significant economic losses due to the phenomenon of illegal file-sharing. However, such losses have never been endorsed by independent data. A similar presumption fails to take into consideration a number of studies that clearly point out the long-term benefits of file-sharing for the both the creative industry and the public’s access to knowledge. According to a study by the Dutch Ministry for Economics conducted by the Institute for Information Law of the University of Amsterdam on the economic and cultural effects of file sharing on music, film and games, file sharing has positive economic implications both in the short and long term. In a research carried out by Ipsos Mediaz Content in the UK, it has been shown that 72 % of people who admit that they download illegally are the ones who spend the most money buying content legally, whereas the main reason for illegal downloading has been identified the lack of attractive legal offers http://www.zeropaid.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/survey.pdf. The public policy on the enforcement of intellectual property rights should be informed by creditable evidence, transparent and objective peer-reviewed analysis.''

Amendment n°18 +
Alexandra Thein, Cecilia Wikström,

Motion for a resolution

Recital F

Or. {EN}en

Amendment n°19 +
Stavros Lambrinidis

Motion for a resolution

Recital F

Or. {EN}en

Amendment n°20 ++
Françoise Castex, Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg, Luigi Berlinguer, Antonio Masip Hidalgo, Bernhard Rapkay, Stavros Lambrinidis, Christian Engström

Motion for a resolution

Recital F a (new)

Or. {EN}en

Justification

The debate on file-sharing and the criminalisation of such practices has not led to any progress in terms of adapting the creative economy to digital technologies, and a new constructive approach regarding file-sharing and how it can contribute to the whole creative economy needs to be considered at the EU level.



Amendment n°21 +
Cecilia Wikström

Motion for a resolution

Recital F a (new)

Or. {EN}en

Amendment n°22 --
Arlene McCarthy

Motion for a resolution

Recital F a (new)

Or. {EN}en

Amendment n°23
Jean-Marie Cavada

Motion for a resolution

Recital F a (new)

Or. {FR}fr

Amendment n°24 -
Arlene McCarthy

Motion for a resolution

Recital F b (new)

Or. {EN}en

Amendment n°25
Jean-Marie Cavada

Motion for a resolution

Recital F b (new)

Or. {FR}fr

Amendment n°26 ++
Françoise Castex, Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg, Luigi Berlinguer, Antonio Masip Hidalgo, Bernhard Rapkay, Christian Engström

Motion for a resolution

Recital G

Or. {EN}en

Amendment n°27 +
Cecilia Wikström

Motion for a resolution

Recital G

Or. {EN}en

Amendment n°28 -
Stavros Lambrinidis

Motion for a resolution

Recital G

Or. {EN}en

Amendment n°29 ++
Françoise Castex, Stavros Lambrinidis, Cecilia Wikström, Christian Engström

Motion for a resolution

Recital H

Or. {EN}en

Amendment n°30 +
Françoise Castex, Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg, Luigi Berlinguer, Antonio Masip Hidalgo, Bernhard Rapkay, Stavros Lambrinidis, Cecilia Wikström, Christian Engström

Motion for a resolution

Recital H a (new)

Or. {EN}en

Amendment n°31 -
Toine Manders

Motion for a resolution

Recital Ha (new)

Or. {EN}en

Amendment n°32 ++
Françoise Castex, Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg, Luigi Berlinguer, Antonio Masip Hidalgo, Bernhard Rapkay, Cecilia Wikström, Christian Engström

Motion for a resolution

Recital J

Or. {EN}en

Justification

Given that the word “piracy” is often equated with digital file-sharing it is proposed to erase the mention of piracy while making clear that it is only referred to commercial counterfeiting.

Amendment n°33 +
Françoise Castex, Stavros Lambrinidis, Cecilia Wikström, Christian Engström

Motion for a resolution

Recital J a (new)

Or. {EN}en

Justification

Recital related to the issue of ACTA.

Amendment n°34
Francesco Enrico Speroni

Motion for a resolution

Recital K a (new)

Or. {IT}it

Amendment n°35
Luis Yáñez-Barnuevo García

Motion for a resolution

Recital K a (new)

Or. {ES}es

Amendment n°36
Luis Yáñez-Barnuevo García

Motion for a resolution

Recital L a (new)

Or. {ES}es

Amendment n°37 -
Luis Yáñez-Barnuevo García

Motion for a resolution

Recital M a(new)

Or. {ES}es

Amendment n°38 -
Toine Manders

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 1

Or. {EN}en

Amendment n°39 +
Françoise Castex, Christian Engström

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 1

Or. {FR}fr

Justification

''As made clear by the draft report and the communication, the exiting legal framework is in the process of being evaluated. It is therefore premature to call for further legislation.''

Amendment n°40 +
Toine Manders

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 1 a (new)

Or. {EN}en

Amendment n°41 ++
Françoise Castex, Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg, Luigi Berlinguer, Antonio Masip Hidalgo, Bernhard Rapkay, Christian Engström

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 1 a (new)

Or. {FR}fr

Amendment n°42 -
Luis Yáñez-Barnuevo García

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 1 a (new)

Or. {ES}es

Amendment n°43 ++
Françoise Castex, Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg, Luigi Berlinguer, Antonio Masip Hidalgo, Bernhard Rapkay, Stavros Lambrinidis, Christian Engström

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 1 b (new)

Or. {FR}fr

Amendment n°44 ++
Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg, Françoise Castex, Luigi Berlinguer, Bernhard Rapkay, Christian Engström

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 1 c (new)

Or. {EN}en

Amendment n°45 ++
Françoise Castex, Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg, Luigi Berlinguer, Bernhard Rapkay

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 1 d (new)

Or. {FR}fr

Amendment n°46 +
Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg, Françoise Castex, Antonio Masip Hidalgo, Bernhard Rapkay, Stavros Lambrinidis, Cecilia Wikström, Christian Engström

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 2

Or. {EN}en

Amendment n°47 -
Marielle Gallo

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 2

Or. {EN}en

Amendment n°48 --
Toine Manders

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 2

Or. {EN}en

Amendment n°49 ++
Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg, Françoise Castex, Antonio Masip Hidalgo, Bernhard Rapkay, Stavros Lambrinidis, Christian Engström

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 2 a (new)

Or. {EN}en

Amendment n°50 +
Christian Engström

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 3

Or. {EN}en

Amendment n°51
Cecilia Wikström

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 3

Or. {EN}en

Amendment n°52
Françoise Castex, Antonio Masip Hidalgo

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 3 a (new)

Or. {FR}fr

Amendment n°53
Marielle Gallo

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 3 a (new)

Or. {EN}en

Amendment n°54 ++
Françoise Castex, Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg, Luigi Berlinguer, Antonio Masip Hidalgo, Bernhard Rapkay, Cecilia Wikström, Christian Engström

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 4

Or. {EN}en

Amendment n°55
Toine Manders

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 4

Or. {EN}en

Amendment n°56
Luis Yáñez-Barnuevo García

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 4 a (new)

Or. {ES}es

Amendment n°57 +
Françoise Castex, Antonio Masip Hidalgo, Bernhard Rapkay, Stavros Lambrinidis, Cecilia Wikström, Christian Engström

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 5

Or. {EN}en

Justification

''The transposition of the IPRED directive in Member Sates has led to controversies concerning the relevance of sanctions against non-commercial IPR infringements. Instead of suggesting that more enforcement is needed, the Parliament's report should call for such a report to critically evaluate such measures and discuss alternative public policies to regulate the digital market of creative content.''

Amendment n°58 +
Cecilia Wikström

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 6

Or. {EN}en

Amendment n°59 +
Françoise Castex, Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg, Luigi Berlinguer, Antonio Masip Hidalgo, Bernhard Rapkay, Christian Engström

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 6

Or. {EN}en

Justification

''Prior to the adoption of enforcement measures for IPR infringements, the European Commission should seek to adapt the substantive legal framework in the field of IPR. The copyright Directive is not adapted to the digital environment, whereas the Community Trademark Regulation is about to be reformed and negotiations about the creation of an EU patent are pending in the EU institutions. As regards criminal sanctions, these should be strictly limited to serious infringements committed by organized crime. The scope of the proposal should be clearly and strictly defined to ensure legal certainty and guarantee that individual consumers will not be criminalized for individual acts with no profit motivation.''

Amendment n°60 +
Françoise Castex, Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg, Luigi Berlinguer, Antonio Masip Hidalgo, Bernhard Rapkay, Stavros Lambrinidis, Cecilia Wikström, Christian Engström

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 6 a (new)

Or. {FR}fr

Amendment n°61 -
Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg, Françoise Castex

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 7

Or. {EN}en

Amendment n°62
Alexandra Thein, Cecilia Wikström

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 7

Or. {EN}en

Amendment n°63 -
Piotr Borys

Motion for a resolution

Title after paragraph 7

Or. {PL}pl

Amendment n°64 +
Françoise Castex, Antonio Masip Hidalgo

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8 a (new)

Or. {EN}en

Amendment n°65 ++
Christian Engström

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8 a (new)

Or. {EN}en

Amendment n°66 +
Françoise Castex, Antonio Masip Hidalgo, Bernhard Rapkay, Cecilia Wikström, Christian Engström

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8 b (new)

Or. {EN}en

Amendment n°67 +
Françoise Castex, Antonio Masip Hidalgo, Bernhard Rapkay, Cecilia Wikström, Christian Engström

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9

Or. {EN}en

Amendment n°68 +
Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg, Françoise Castex, Antonio Masip Hidalgo, Bernhard Rapkay, Stavros Lambrinidis

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9 a (new)

Or. {EN}en

Amendment n°69 ++
Françoise Castex, Antonio Masip Hidalgo

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10

Or. {EN}en

Justification

''The accuracy of data regarding IPR violations has been strongly criticised on the grounds that methodology was extremely oriented to inflate the estimated importance of profit losses caused by counterfeiting (thus favouring a strengthening of IPR enforcement). Such criticisms has been voiced in arenas such as the WIPO by experts and national authorities. With the Observatory, the EU should ensure that statistics and data regarding IPR infringements are based on credible evidence, transparent assumptions as well as objective and independent peer reviewed analysis.''



Amendment n°70 +
Christian Engström

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10

Or. {EN}en

Amendment n°71
Christian Engström

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11

Or. {EN}en

Amendment n°72
Françoise Castex, Antonio Masip Hidalgo, Stavros Lambrinidis

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12

Or. {EN}en

Justification

''The improvement of IPR enforcement is not necessarily the solution to the challenges Europe face to achieve a real knowledge society. Therefore, the solutions of the observatory should not only relate to enforcement, but consider the broader picture of the whole IPR regimes.''

Amendment n°73
Christian Engström

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12

Or. {EN}en

Amendment n°74
Marielle Gallo

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13

Or. {EN}en

Amendment n°75 +
Françoise Castex, Antonio Masip Hidalgo, Bernhard Rapkay, Cecilia Wikström, Christian Engström

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13

Or. {EN}en

Amendment n°76
Luis Yáñez-Barnuevo García

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13

Or. {ES}es

Amendment n°77 --
Toine Manders

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13

Or. {EN}en

Amendment n°78 -
Marielle Gallo

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 14

Or. {EN}en

Amendment n°79 ++
Cecilia Wikström

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 14

Or. {EN}en

Amendment n°80 +
Françoise Castex, Antonio Masip Hidalgo, Christian Engström

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 14

Or. {EN}en

Justification

''Voluntary agreements for copyright enforcement are not the appropriate instrument to address the challenges of digital distribution of copyrighted content. Voluntary agreements between the content industry and Internet Service Providers have been promoted by some national governments across the EU as the most efficient tool to address the issue of file-sharing – e.g. trying to establish national “graduated response” mechanisms. Such codes of conduct go beyond the current regulatory framework to establish practices, the legality of which remains ambiguous, as has been demonstrated by the recent French Constitutional Court decision concluding to the unconstitutionality of the “Hadopi” law, which was a follow up of a code of conduct.''

Amendment n°81 --
Luis Yáñez-Barnuevo García

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 15

Or. {ES}es

Amendment n°82 ++
Françoise Castex, Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg, Luigi Berlinguer, Antonio Masip Hidalgo, Cecilia Wikström, Christian Engström

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 15

Or. {EN}en

Justification

''This whole paragraph should be deleted. As the debates taking place at the national level and at the EU and international level make clear, there is a lot of controversies regarding IPR policies in the digital environment. As long as these issues are not fully addressed at the policy-making level, public authorities should restrain from engaging in such communications campaigns.''

Amendment n°83 ++
Cecilia Wikström

Motion for a resolution

Title after paragraph 15

Or. {EN}en

Amendment n°84 +
Françoise Castex, Christian Engström

Motion for a resolution

Title after paragraph 15

Or. {EN}en

Amendment n°85 +
Cecilia Wikström

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16

Or. {EN}en

Amendment n°86 --
Luis Yáñez-Barnuevo García

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16

Or. {ES}es

Amendment n°87 +
Françoise Castex, Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg, Luigi Berlinguer, Antonio Masip Hidalgo, Bernhard Rapkay, Stavros Lambrinidis, Christian Engström

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16

Or. {EN}en

Amendment n°88 --
Marielle Gallo

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16 a (new)

Or. {EN}en

Amendment n°89 ++
Françoise Castex, Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg, Luigi Berlinguer, Antonio Masip Hidalgo, Bernhard Rapkay, Cecilia Wikström, Christian Engström

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17

Or. {EN}en

Justification

''“Piracy” over the Internet is actually mentioned in the communication, and it has been at the center of the debate regarding the Telecoms Package. This paragraph is far too inaccurate and should be deleted''.



Amendment n°90
Stavros Lambrinidis

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17

Or. {EN}en

Amendment n°91 --
Marielle Gallo

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17 a (new)

Or. {EN}en

Amendment n°92 -
Françoise Castex, Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg, Luigi Berlinguer, Antonio Masip Hidalgo, Bernhard Rapkay, Stavros Lambrinidis, Cecilia Wikström

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 18

Or. {EN}en

Justification

''Unauthorised use of copyright-protected material is due to the lack of legitimate business models that would allow consumers to buy content online. Where business models have been developed and tried, the results have been promising. For instance, the launch of Spotify, the music streaming service, has helped curb the illegal downloading of music. Enforcement measures need to respect fundamental rights, such as the right to the presumption of innocence, the right to a fair trial, the right to privacy and the right to the confidentiality of communication. Applying the same enforcement measures to criminal gangs infringing copyright for profit and individual consumers doing it for personal use is not fair or proportionate.''

Amendment n°93
Cecilia Wikström

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19

Or. {EN}en

Amendment n°94 +
Françoise Castex, Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg, Luigi Berlinguer, Antonio Masip Hidalgo, Bernhard Rapkay, Christian Engström

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19

Or. {EN}en

Amendment n°95 +
Stavros Lambrinidis

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19

Or. {EN}en

Amendment n°96
Alexandra Thein

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19

Or. {DE}de

Amendment n°97
Toine Manders

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19 a (new)

Or. {EN}en

Amendment n°98 ++
Francesco Enrico Speroni

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19 a (new)

Or. i{IT}it

Amendment n°99 +
Françoise Castex, Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg, Luigi Berlinguer, Antonio Masip Hidalgo, Bernhard Rapkay, Stavros Lambrinidis

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20

Or. {EN}en

Amendment n°100
Alexandra Thein

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20

Or. {DE}de

Amendment n°101 ++
Françoise Castex, Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg, Luigi Berlinguer, Bernhard Rapkay, Christian Engström

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20 a (new)

Or. {EN}en

Amendment n°102
Cecilia Wikström

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 21

Or. {EN}en

Amendment n°103
Marielle Gallo

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 21

Or. {FR}fr

Amendment n°104
Françoise Castex, Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg, Luigi Berlinguer, Antonio Masip Hidalgo, Bernhard Rapkay

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 21

Or. {FR}fr

Justification

''Un certain nombre d’entreprises européennes décident de vendre leurs produits et services sur des marchés individuels, guidés par des choix stratégiques, par la demande du marché et par des motifs culturels et linguistiques. La création d’un marché digital unique ne doit pas devenir une manière de forcer ces entreprises à entrer en compétition avec plus de parties dominantes, réduisant leur perspective de croissance progressive et s’effectuant au détriment de la diversité culturelle.''

''Par ailleurs, dans sa décision de 2003 sur la vente des droits de la Ligue des Champions UEFA (COMP/C.2-37.398), la Commission européenne a reconnu les avantages de l’exclusivité territoriale en notant que "Les droits médiatiques sur les compétitions de football telles que la Ligue des champions de l’UEFA sont généralement vendus pays par pays. Cela tient à la nature de la distribution, qui est nationale du fait des réglementations nationales, des barrières linguistiques et des facteurs culturels. La Commission considère donc l’étendue géographique des marchés en amont des droits médiatiques comme nationale." (Point 88).''

Amendment n°105
Luis Yáñez-Barnuevo García

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 21

Or. {ES}es

Amendment n°106
Marielle Gallo

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 21 a (new)

Or. {FR}fr

Amendment n°107 +
Françoise Castex, Cecilia Wikström, Christian Engström

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 21 a (new)

Or. {EN}en

Amendment n°108 ++
Françoise Castex, Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg, Luigi Berlinguer, Antonio Masip Hidalgo, Bernhard Rapkay

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 21 a (new)

Or. {EN}en

Justification

''Policy makers must remain open in their approach of the phenomenon of file-sharing and explore all possible solutions. Increased enforcement has proven to be dissatisfactory and so alternative policies should be considered. The first step would be to properly assess the different proposals aimed at allowing non-commercial file-sharing while creating new modes of funding for creation, in order to fill the gap in this highly divisive debate over file-sharing.''

Amendment n°109 +
Françoise Castex, Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg, Luigi Berlinguer, Antonio Masip Hidalgo, Stavros Lambrinidis, Christian Engström

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 21 a(new)

Or. {EN}en

Amendment n°110
Piotr Borys

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 21 a (new)

Or. {PL}pl

Amendment n°111
Piotr Borys

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 21 b (new)

Or. {EN}en

Amendment n°112 +
Françoise Castex, Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg, Luigi Berlinguer, Antonio Masip Hidalgo, Stavros Lambrinidis, Christian Engström

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 22

Or. {EN}en

Justification

''Since November 2008, customs officials in the European Union have seized at least 18 shipments of legal generic medicines from India and China to developing countries, including medicines to treat HIV and AIDS and heart disease. The EU should address the criticisms from public health agencies, including UNITAID, the WHO and many civil society groups, by reconsidering the regulations under which these seizures have been made.''

Amendment n°113 --
Sebastian Valentin Bodu

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 22 a (new)

Or. {RO}ro

Amendment n°114
Françoise Castex, Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg, Luigi Berlinguer, Antonio Masip Hidalgo, Stavros Lambrinidis

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 23

Or. {EN}en

Amendment n°115 -
Sebastian Valentin Bodu

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 23 a (new)

Or. {RO}ro

Amendment n°116 ++
Françoise Castex, Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg, Luigi Berlinguer, Antonio Masip Hidalgo, Bernhard Rapkay, Stavros Lambrinidis

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 24

Or. {EN}en

Justification

''The EU has been criticised for seeking to impose harsh IPR regimes to other areas through trade agreements with other regions, exporting EU regulation that has yet to be properly assessed. At the WIPO, the EU is also the main, if not the only, opponent to an international treaty that would foster access to books for visually impaired people, refusing any harmonisation of exceptions and limitations of copyright at the international level. This hardline in favor of IPR is increasingly contentious and could be detrimental to other EU policy objectives. And more “balanced approach” is therefore needed''.

Amendment n°117 +
Christian Engström

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 24

Or. {EN}en

Amendment n°118
Marielle Gallo

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 25

Or. {EN}en

Justification

''The European Parliament resolution of 18 December 2008 on the impact of counterfeiting on international trade gives a clear stance on the Parliament position on ACTA negotiations. This amendment aims to clarify that in its negotiations the Commission should take this position fully into account.''

Amendment n°119 +
Françoise Castex, Antonio Masip Hidalgo, Bernhard Rapkay, Stavros Lambrinidis, Cecilia Wikström, Christian Engström

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 25

Or. {EN}en

Justification

''Unlike nearly all other multilateral and plurilateral discussions about intellectual property norms, the ACTA negotiations have been held in deep secrecy. Documents such as proposals for ACTA text should be circulated and discussed with the European Parliament. Any provisions to be agreed by the negotiating parties should fully comply with the Community framework regarding the liability of ISPs and the legislation on e-commerce and IPR enforcement. The final text of ACTA should undergo scrutiny to assess its compliance with fundamental rights.''

Amendment n°120 +
Françoise Castex, Antonio Masip Hidalgo, Bernhard Rapkay, Stavros Lambrinidis, Cecilia Wikström, Christian Engström

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 25 a (new)

Or. {EN}en

Amendment n°121 ++
Françoise Castex, Antonio Masip Hidalgo, Stavros Lambrinidis

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 25 b(new)

Or. {EN}en

Justification

These two additions are entirely consistent with the stance taken by the Parliament regarding ACTA in the Susta report previously mentioned.

Amendment n°122 +
Françoise Castex, Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg, Luigi Berlinguer, Antonio Masip Hidalgo, Bernhard Rapkay, Cecilia Wikström, Christian Engström

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 27

Or. {EN}en

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