[pp.int.general] pp.international.general Digest, Vol 32, Issue 28

Tue Oct 13 09:21:06 CEST 2009

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> http://www.laquadrature.net/en/telecoms-package-does-the-council-of-eu-hate-freedom
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> As the negotiations of the conciliation committee on the Telecoms
> Package unfold, the Council of the European Union came up with a new,
> alarming proposal. Member States offered to replace the notorious
> "amendment 138" [1], an essential safeguard for citizen's freedom,  
> with
> a dangerous "knock-off" [2]. But the new version is not only
> neutralizing citizens' protections adopted twice by 88% of the  
> European
> Parliament; it reduces legal protections for online activites in an
> attempt to implement what looks like an open door to a repressive  
> nightmare.
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> For the Council, the right to a due process, which is crucial to
> preserve justice in a democracy, could be limited "in order to assure
> national security, defence, public security, and the prevention,
> investigation, detection, and prosecution of criminal offences. ".
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> Restricting Internet access without a prior ruling by the judicial
> authorities in order to prevent and detect crime? Is this the  
> Council's
> vision for the future of European societies? It sounds for them that  
> the
> right to a fair trial shoud only be an option...
>
> More than ever, the European Parliament must remain firm in its
> commitment to protecting the freedoms of EU citizens.
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> Here is the full text of the Council's unacceptable proposition :
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>   Proposition for Article 1.3.a of the Framework directive.
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>   "Measures taken by Member States regarding end-users' access to or
> use of services and applications through electronic communication
> networks shall respect the fundamental rights and freedoms of natural
> persons, including in relation to privacy, freedom of expression and
> access to information and due process and the right to effective
> judicial protection in compliance with the general principles of
> Community law. Any such measures shall in particular respect the
> principle of a fair and impartial procedure, including the right to be
> heard.
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>   This paragraph is without prejudice to the competence of a Member
> State to determine in line with its own constitutional order and with
> fundamental rights appropriate procedural safeguards assuring due
> process. This may include requirements of a judicial decision
> authorising the measures to be taken and may take account of the  
> need to
> adopt urgent measures in order to assure national security, defence,
> public security, and the prevention, investigation, detection, and
> prosecution of criminal offences."
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> 1. Amendment 138 is located in article 8.4 of the Framework directive
> 2. ... which would be placed in article 1.3
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> On Oct 13, 2009, at 8:46 AM, cwicket wrote:

> Usually I do not promote any other organization through this ML, and  
> I am not a fervent supporter of La Quadrature. But I do respect  
> their work and I admit that  they have done very useful job until now.
>
> So I would urge you to answer their call, to contact your MEP today  
> before 11:00 am for those who can.
>
> Further info right here :
> http://www.laquadrature.net/en/telecoms-package-does-the-council-of-eu-hate-freedom
> and here http://www.laquadrature.net/wiki/URGENT_action_save_am138_against_horrible_compromise
>
> Le 12/10/09 12:00, pp.international.general-request at lists.pirateweb.net 
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>>    1. Current Progress of the Coreteam (Patrick M?chler)
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>> From: Patrick M?chler 	<patrick.maechler at pp-international.net>
>> Subject: [pp.int.general] Current Progress of the Coreteam
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>> Dear Pirates
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>> This is a digest of the coreteam meeting minutes of the past weeks.  
>> We
>> eventually came to the conclusion that from now on we would make send
>> out digests presenting the progress and important decisions by the
>> coreteam in an informal way, while still providing those who are
>> interested in all nuts and bolts with the formal meeting protocoll
>> (they are also necessary for us as well).
>>
>> Since the last publication, there have been 4 coreteam meetings and
>> there is one addendum to make to the one from September 3rd: Namely
>> that voting is carried out among coreteam members and that Moira
>> Br?llisauer's role is that of an advisor.
>>
>> On September 7th we continued the work on the PPI logo design
>> (including legal issues) and general introductions for PPI press  
>> kits.
>> Laurent Le Besnerais aka cwicket was appointed as new head of the
>> techteam. We are constantly looking for helping hands. If you are
>> interested in helping out in the techteam, please contact him by
>> Laurent.LeBesnerais at pp-international.net
>> The goal of the translation team is it to have at least one person in
>> every language available. If you are interested in helping out the
>> translation team, please contact Enrique.Errea at pp-international.net
>>
>> There were also changes within the coreteam. Nicolas Sahlqvist was
>> appointed as treasurer
>> ( nicolas.sahlqvist at pp-international.net ), Ralph Hinterleitner
>> stepped down as CAO for personal reasons. Will Tovey (
>> will.tovey at pp-international.net ) from PP-UK took that position.
>> Currently we are looking for a coreteam member to take over Thilo
>> Schumann's position, who unfortunately cannot afford enough spare  
>> time
>> for leading the GFX/FILM + Grassroots&  Socialmedia team
>> We agreed upon a more explicit responsibility allocation between
>> coreteam members. It can be seen at
>> http://int.piratenpartei.de/PPI_Coreteam_Responsibilites
>>
>> PPI will also support the forming PPs in Serbia, Slovakia
>> Also we'd like to mention that a PP in Luxembourgh was founded on 4th
>> October (currently about 150 people)
>>
>> In other news there is an ongoing discussion about the telecom  
>> package
>> that is discussed at EU level. We'd like to ask all EU-based PPs to
>> inform themselves about the issue and to take action.
>>
>> Last but not least we agreed upon a PPI signet which can be found  
>> here:
>> http://int.piratenpartei.de/Image:PPI-signet.png
>>
>> Currently we're in the process of setting up a statute draft and
>> fixing the conference in November (coretx and valio), redoing the
>> website (cwicket&  techteam), improving the processes within the
>> coreteam (Duke).
>>
>> The formal protocols can be acquired at
>> http://int.piratenpartei.de/Category:PPI_Coreteam_Minutes
>> Note: This is an ad interim wiki, that will be soon migrated to the
>> pp-international.net domain
>>
>> with pirately Greetings
>> Samir and Patrick
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