[x-pubpol] Polish PM recants on ACTA

[Joly MacFie]

http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/intellectual-property/2012/02/03/actas-eu-future-in-doubt-after-polish-pause-40094978/

According to reports<http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=pl&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=pl&tl=en&twu=1&u=http://wiadomosci.wp.pl/title,Internauci-maja-racje-Tusk-zawiesza-ratyfikacje-ACTA,wid,14224470,wiadomosc.html%3Fticaid%3D1ddb0%26_ticrsn%3D3&usg=ALkJrhjeDZmOuPZuyv6ADzd_2bxVb2Kyqw>,
(Polish Prime Minister) Tusk said on Friday that his government had made
insufficient consultations before signing the
agreement<http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/networking/2012/01/26/uk-signs-acta-as-activists-urge-resistance-40094914/>
in
late January, and it was necessary to ensure it was entirely safe for
Polish citizens.

Although it is technically a trade agreement,
ACTA<http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/communication-breakdown-10000030/acta-facts-misconceptions-and-questions-10025310/>
is
effectively an international treaty aimed at criminalising copyright
infringement and associated activities.

Tusk's backtracking could spell the end of ACTA for the entire European
Union. If Poland or any other EU member state, or the European Parliament
itself, fails to ratify the document, it becomes null and void across the
union. As it stands, there are already five member countries that have not
even signed ACTA.

"I share the opinions of those who from the beginning said that
consultations were not complete," Tusk said, according to a report in
Wirtualna Polska<http://wiadomosci.wp.pl/title,Internauci-maja-racje-Tusk-zawiesza-ratyfikacje-ACTA,wid,14224470,wiadomosc.html?ticaid=1ddb3>.
The 54-year-old prime minister added that a Polish rejection of ACTA is now
on the table, and admitted that he had previously approached the agreement
from a "20th century" perspective, due to his age.

All this represents a major about-turn, as Tusk strongly defended the
agreement<http://www.poland.pl/news/article,Prime_Minister_Donald_Tusk_about_ACTA_and_the_Fiscal_Agreement,id,466908.htm>
just
three days ago

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