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ACTA will be back on European Parliament's agenda

The controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) will get back on the agenda, but with amendments, members of the European Parliament's Legal Affairs Committee have told BNS.
Protestai dėl ACTA sutarties praeitais metais vyko ir Lietuvoje
ACTA drew massive protests in Lithuania and throughout the EU / 15min.lt/Eriko Ovčarenko nuotr.

Attempts will be made to eliminate drawbacks of the previous document in its new version.

"We don't want to repeat the same document as we already have a regulation banning legal use of a copied document. The ACTA's drawback is that it left a legal loophole as a certain police service was stipulated and it could check what information we have on our devices. Now the document will come back being of a totally different character," Polish MEP Lidia Geringer de Oedenberg told a press conference in Vilnius on Thursday.

She could not say when discussions on the ACTA would start.

The European Parliament voted down the ACTA last year.

Lithuania and another 21 European countries signed the ACTA last year but later stopped the ratification process.

Supporters of the anti-piracy pact say it will help protect intellectual property. Meanwhile, its opponents, who held protests early last year, believe it will lead to restrictions of online freedom.

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