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European Parliament to EU: Turn over ACTA docs! (Ars Technica)

By Robin Gross

The European Parliament has demanded more transparency in the EU, and it made a point of singling out the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. Parliament has been considering a general transparency bill, but one amendment to the bill demanded access to ACTA documents?access that negotiators have so far been unwilling to provide. "In accordance with Article 255(1) of the EC Treaty, the Commission should immediately make all documents related to the ongoing international negotiations on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) publicly available," says the amendment.

Full post as published by IP Justice on March 12, 2009 (boomark / email).