EU DROPPING DEMANDS FOR ACTA-LIKE PROVISIONS IN CANADA TRADE NEGOTIATIONS
November 1st, 2012
BY KITTY SO, IN OTTAWA
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has agreed to drop demands to introduce criminal sanctions to pharmaceutical copying similar to those proposed in the stalled Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) within its ongoing free trade negotiations with Canada, Manufacturing Chemist has been told. Belgium's European Digital Rights (EDRi) group has claimed EU member states have provisionally agreed to a proposal from the EU Council of Ministers that these provisions be excluded from the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement with Canada that is now ...
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