LIBE ACTA report amendments

On May 31st, 2012, the LIBE committee of the EU Parliament will adopt amendments to its report on ACTA.

Below are the amendments tabled on the draft report, graded by La Quadrature. Generally speaking, grades depend on whether amendments acknowledge ACTA's dangerous flaws and understand the need to reform copyright so as to adapt it to new technologies and social practices. Also, amendments aimed at delaying the procedure have been graded negatively. La Quadrature du Net recommends:
 * to reject amendments 21, 22, 23, 37, which minimise the lack of safeguards in ACTA or else falsely suggest that ACTA's dangers can be addresses by the Commission and/or Member States in the course of implementaiton.
 * to adopt amendments 42, which calls on the Trade committee to recommend that the Parliament withhold consent to ACTA, as well as amendements 24, 27, 29, 36 which stress the dangers of privatised copyright enforcement and stress the need for a revised approach to copyright enforcement.