Dear EPAA Members
Please find attached the presentation on Piracy in Europe we have recently finalised. We would
very appreciate it if you could send us your comments and let us know whether
some mistakes have been made.
Best regards,
Executive Summary:
- Amendement
138, and the Telecoms Package:
In May, Parliament did not adopt the conciliation
agreement reached in Council on Amendment 138. This disagreement gives rise to
a conciliation procedure and 27 MEPs have been chosen (you can find the list of
selected MEPs here)
and 27 representatives of Member States. Of these 54 people, 6 will
make up a negotiating team, and they will have 6 to 8 weeks to find a
compromise.
This will later have to be approved by Parliament and the Council.
The negotiating team began its work, and the two persons in charge of the
negotiations are
- Catherine Trautmann
- Alejo Vidal Quadras
and they are both very open to find an agreement with
the Council, by allowing Internet restrcitions on users following a judiciary
request. They are currently under a lot of pressure from other MEPs and
lobbyist in order to maintain the amendment 138 as it is, therefore making
forced restriction of the Internet unconstitutional.
We should have information mid-to-late November, for approval by Parliament in
December.
If no conciliation is reached, the Telecoms Package will be declared invalid.
Please find attached the very funny schema that explain the current EU
procedure in which we are...
- About
the measures taken to fight piracy:
Each European country is in the process of fighting
pirates, with the cooperation of Internet Services Providers.
The French National Assembly has approved the Hadopi "Three strike
rule" also currently being studied in most other European countries.
Finland recently recognized the Internet as a fundamental right, and is
therefore studying the three strike rule without the consequence of cutting the
Internet access of the user.
Estonia was the first European country to recognize the internet as a
fundamental right (2004).
But please find attached the very complete and detail tour of Europe of the
battle against piracy.
Best
Alexandra Lebret
Managing Director