EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT WANTS ANTI-COUNTERFEITING AGREEMENT TALKS PUBLICISED
March 1st, 2010
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament is pressing for secret negotiations to frame a new global anti-counterfeiting agreement be opened. Talks to frame an Anti-Counterfeiting and Trade Agreement (ACTA) have been ongoing for two years, but the countries involved (mostly rich developed countries including the USA, the European Union and Japan) have kept the details under wraps; the parliament has been excluded from consultations. It has now demanded the European Commission "inform [it] immediately and fully at all stages of [these] international ...
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