The Register reports on how UK MPs have been denied access to information about the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. The ACTA talks resume next week in Mexico.
UK MPs Frozen Out of ACTA
January 21, 2010
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Okay, this is as unnerving as the White House treating ACTA as a national security issue.
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Not completely surprising. If putting the documents in the HoC Library makes them public (for instance, in the Canadian context, accessible by the public through Access To Information laws), then the NDA between the negotiating parties would obviously preclude putting the document(s) there. Is there another forum which the MPs could see it in, which does not make the document public?
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