<div>so this is actually something i talked about in brussels recently (like, within the past 48 hours or so)</div>
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<div>A FTA has been agreed on between the EU and South Korea which holds ACTA provisions. My take on this is:</div>
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<div>-The ACTA negotiations have been going on for 2 years and still they're not concluded: in other international fora where IPRs have been discussed, that long a standstill has usually meant there will never be an agreement, and that the negotiations are moved to other fora (first WIPO, then WTO, then WIPO again, the World Customs Organisation, then ACTA and now FTA:s)</div>
<div>-FTA:s are "the next forum": that is, now that ACTA parties seem not to agree, the EU has chosen to progress with the negotiations bilaterally rather than multilaterally, meaning </div>
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<div>We really need to check EU bilateral trade negotations with all known parties of the ACTA negotiations. </div>
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<div>You'll find here <a href="http://bilaterals.org/?lang=en">http://bilaterals.org/?lang=en</a> a list in the left margin on EU bilateral trade negotations, and perhaps we need to start checking with DG trade and the council of ministers to see what available documentation there is for these summaries.</div>
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<div>Sounds like a plan?<br><br></div>
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Date: 2009/10/19<br>Subject: [Fwd: [iindep-hub] EU - South Korea FTA published]<br>To: Amelia Andersdotter <<a href="mailto:teirdes@gmail.com">teirdes@gmail.com</a>><br><br><br><br><br>-------- Original Message --------<br>
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