Gallo report vote campaign

5 minutes to help the JURI committee vote for the amendments of the Gallo report

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What?

The Gallo report on the enforcement of Intellectual property will be voted in JURI committee of the European Parliament next Tuesday, June 1st in the morning. This report is crucial in determining the way forward regarding copyright enforcement. Depending on the outcome of the JURI vote, two options are possible:

• The draft report of Marielle Gallo (EPP, France), which dogmatically calls for more repression of not-for-profit file-sharing, thus paving the way for ACTA (the original report encourages the ACTA negotiations!) and for the revival of IPRED2 directive (with, among other things, criminal sanctions for "inciting, aiding and abetting" infringement), currently on the desk of Internal Market Commissioner Michel Barnier.
• The constructive amendments tabled by MEPs from accross the political spectrum, promoting an evidence-based approach already perceptible in the digital agenda presented last week by Neelie Kroes, with a call for an impact assessment of the 2004 IPRED directive before adopting any additional measures and a consideration of alternative funding schemes for creation in order to accommodate file-sharing in the creative economy.

In case you missed the last episode: Françoise Castex (S&D, France), as a shadow rapporteur (person responsible for the dossier) for the S&D group, went last week to a negotiation round with Gallo and the other shadows to try to reach "compromise amendments". She defended the position of the S&D group (stop repression + find new funding schemes), but Marielle Gallo sticked to a hardline and no compromise was reached. It means that all the tabled amendments will be voted one by one instead of the compromise ones (sounds like a regular, democratic process, but it is, sadly, becoming the exception in committee votes).

There is a chance that some dissident members of S&D group (including the Italian Luigi Berlinguer and the Spanish Antonio Massip Hidalgo) try to bypass Castex and make a compromise anyway. But the draft report is so bad, and Mrs Gallo so unwilling to adopt a reasonable stance, that the position of the S&D group should not be diluted into compromise.

Who?

The members of the JURI committee. http://www.laquadrature.net/wiki/MEPs_JURI

When?

This week is "green week" when most MEPs are in their Member States, so some assistants will be in Brussels, but MEPs will be hard to reach. I don't know about Castex, Gallo and other JURI Members...

Monday 31st and Tuesday 1st will be key for us.

Resources

http://www.laquadrature.net/en/gallo-report-on-the-future-of-eu-copyright-repression-or-reflexion