ITRE ACTA report amendments

On May 31st, 2012, the ITRE 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 32, 39, 40, 41, which minimise the lack of safeguards in ACTA or else refuse to clearly call for a rejection of ACTA.
 * to adopt amendments 2, 24, 38 which point to some of ACTA's most important flaws, and urge for a more balanced approach to copyright and patent enforcement.