European Parliament
Ioan Enciu  (S&D ),
in writing
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I voted in favour of Parliament’s recommendation to reject ACTA, because I believe it is not a suitable tool for the European Union in responding to the tasks for which it was called.
Despite the central need to protect our market and our customers from counterfeit goods from outside the Union accessing the market, the need to defend the Intellectual Property Rights regime, also in the digital environment, and the fundamental need for a global approach on this matter, ACTA unfortunately raised more perplexities than guarantees. The European Union will have to find better instruments to address the surely basic issues touched upon by the agreement.
Not only did the European Data Protection Supervisor publish a very negative opinion on the agreement but also, and more importantly, the opinions expressed by four parliamentary committees (ITRE, DEVE, LIBE, JURI), state their evident concerns about ACTA.
Finally, I strongly believe that the unprecedented public campaign against the agreement, which ended up in a petition containing more than 2.4 million signatures, cannot be left unheard by the democratically elected body of the European Union. The European Parliament represents the interests of the citizens of Europe.

