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Consumers and ACTA

Notes on ACTA from a Consumer Perspective 1. Is ACTA really an anti-counterfeiting agreement? Consumers are in favour of measures that confront commercial fraud, especially when it affects public safety and health, the quality of consumer products or the false…

Some simple notes for ACTA debate

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION REJECTS  ASKING FOR A EUROPEAN COURT OF JUSTICE OPINION ON the LEGALITY OF ACTA. DESPITE MANY DOUBTS AND LEGAL UNCERTAINTIES IN THE ACTA TEXT THE EC REFUSES TO ALLOW A European Court opinion on its legality and…

ACTA´s Democratic Vacuum in EU

European Digital Rights on ACTA´s Democratic Vacuum The European Parliament has given its legal service the task of explaining why a circle is a square – or rather why ACTA is simultaneously in line with existing EU legal provisions, while…

Generic drug disappears, price goes up 1.100%

Price Shock: antidepressive drug has gone up with 1,100 percent. In the last two weeks the price of the antidepressive drug Sertraline has increased dramaticallyin Denmark. The Danish Minister of Health is left speechless. The drug Sertraline produced the pharmaceutical…