Upcoming actions

• On 8 September. Commission statement - Ongoing negotiations on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) Greens/EFA political group speaker will make an intervention.

Recent actions

• On July 24 Greens/EFA participated at ORGCON

• On July 7 Greens/EFA adopted an urgent appeal for transparency in the negotiations on ACTA.

• On June 28 Greens/EFA participated in a Geneva Workshop organised by KEI and IQsensato.

• On June 23 eleven (11) Greens/EFA ACTA WG MEPs signed the Washington Communique

• On June 3 more questions were asked focussing on whether ACTA is undermining access to medicines and constrain future policy options.

Previous actions

• On May 31 MEP Ska Keller asked a priority question to the Commission about provisions in ACTA "that clearly breach commitments under the Doha Declaration".

• On May 26 seven Greens/EFA MEPs wrote a follow up letter to WTO president Pascal Lamy asking for comments on the "potential implications of new global norms that may emerge from ACTA", whether "ACTA parties approached, consulted or shared further information about the negotiations with the WTO" and "To what extent would a decision in the dispute supersede ACTA provisions that exceed those in the TRIPS Agreement or the GATT or conflict with the decision?"

• On May 6 WIPO Director General Francis Gurry answered the Greens/EFA MEPs letter saying: "Based on its long experience in international norm-setting relating to IP, WIPO is committed to ensuring inclusive, transparent processes."

• On May 5 the EP approved with overwhelming majority a Resolution on the EU-Canada Summit which says ACTA should be opened up to public scrutiny and conducted "under the auspices of an international organisation, the most suitable being WIPO".

• On May 4 WTO president Pascal Lamy answered the Greens/EFA MEPs letter saying WTO Members could request the WTO secretariat to answer the questions in the letter.

• On May 4 the Greens/EFA organised a workshop on ACTA and the public interest where India made its first public statement on ACTA. The broadcast had about 890 live viewers.

• On April 21 Greens/EFA MEPs Jan Albrecht and Christian Engström said in a press release they expect to continue to "receive all relevant ACTA negotiation documents" from the Commission..

• On April 20 Daniel Cohn-Bendit asked Barroso in a Plenary debate to publish all ACTA texts.

• On April 15 seven Greens/EFA MEPs asks WIPO and WTO about transparency, enforcement and norm-setting in relation to ACTA and asks for impact assessments of such aspects. They also "request clarification regarding the relationship between ACTA Institution and WIPO in scenarios where the ACTA Secretariat operates under the WTO, the WIPO, or as an independent body."

• On March 10 the EP adopted a Resolution on the transparency and state of play of the ACTA negotiations

http://en.act-on-acta.eu/Greens_EFA_MEPs_questions_to_the_Commission