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Dear Mr President
Schulz,
The European Parliament has played an active role in transparency issues relating to ACTA both by
demanding disclosure and by disclosing documents [1,2,3] but also, in some instances, by actively
withholding public information [4]. This complexity follows as
a consequence from that the European Parliament should have
been immediately and fully informed at all stages of the ACTA
procedure.
The
Commission always
claimed that the EP had been properly informed [5] to the extent
that not even a law suit claiming the opposite [6] moderated
that stance. Further, it is our understanding that the
Commission also claimed that the EP's vote on consent would be
immaterial as an effect of the Commission's referral of ACTA
to the Court of Justice [7].
Your own
commitment to transparency in ACTA [8] has been duly noted and
appreciated. We therefore ask you to keep the same hight
transparency standards also when it comes to the aftermath and
closing of the ACTA file.
We understand that the European Parliament has submitted written
observations to the Court of Justice and that a question asked
by the Court of Justice to the Commission have been sent to
the European Parliament[9].
We would kindly ask
for your intervention to immediately make all documents available to the public.
With best regards,
Linus Nordberg
DFRI - Föreningen för
digitala fri- och rättigheter
[1]
http://www.erikjosefsson.eu/sites/default/files/am109_on_ACTA_disclosure.png
[2]
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+TA+P7-TA-2010-0058+0+DOC+XML+V0//EN
[3]
http://lists.act-on-acta.eu/pipermail/hub/2011-December/000072.html
[4]
http://acta.mpbloggar.se/files/2011/05/ACTA_documents_release-1.pdf
[5]
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getAllAnswers.do?reference=E-2010-2033&language=EN
[6] In 't Veld v Commission Case T-301/10
[7]
http://acta.mpbloggar.se/2012/06/21/eu-kommissionen-tanker-inte-ge-upp-vid-ett-nej-till-acta/
[8]
http://lists.act-on-acta.eu/pipermail/hub/attachments/20120207/a3fa85ce/attachment-0001.pdf
[9]
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getAllAnswers.do?reference=E-2013-000018&language=EN
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Ska se om jag kan hitta lite
snyggare länkar under dagen ([1] är ganska ful). Annars tror jag
att det skulle kunna skickas som det är.
//Erik
