page_title: Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
section_title: EU Rapporteur's resignation
hierarchical_section_title: Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement / Protests and petitions / EU Rapporteur's resignation
caption_attribution_description: English: Kader Arif (French politician) during Dominique Strauss-Kahn's meeting in Toulouse on April, 13th 2007 where he was promoting Ségolène Royal's candidacy for the 2007 presidential election. Français&#160;: Kader Arif (homme politique français) lors du meeting de Toulouse du 13 avril 2007 de Dominique Strauss-Kahn, venu promouvoir la candidature de Ségolène Royal à l'élection présidentielle de 2007.
context_page_description: The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement was a proposed multilateral treaty for the purpose of establishing international standards for intellectual property rights enforcement. The agreement aims to establish an international legal framework for targeting counterfeit goods, generic medicines and copyright infringement on the Internet, and would create a new governing body outside existing forums, such as the World Trade Organization, the World Intellectual Property Organization, and the United Nations.
  The agreement was signed in October 2011 by Australia, Canada, Japan, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, and the United States. In 2012, Mexico, the European Union and 22 countries that are member states of the European Union signed as well. One signatory has ratified the agreement, which would come into force in countries that ratified it after ratification by six countries.
  Industrial groups with interests in copyright, trademarks and other types of intellectual property said that ACTA was a response to "the increase in global trade of counterfeit goods and pirated copyright protected works".
context_section_description: Kader Arif, European parliament's rapporteur for ACTA, resigned from his position on 26 January 2012 denouncing the treaty "in the strongest possible manner" for having "no inclusion of civil society organizations, a lack of transparency from the start of the negotiations, repeated postponing of the signature of the text without an explanation being ever given, [and] exclusion of the EU Parliament's demands that were expressed on several occasions in [the] assembly," concluding with his intent to "send a strong signal and alert the public opinion about this unacceptable situation" and refusal to "take part in this masquerade."
caption: Kader Arif, the European parliament's rapporteur for ACTA, who resigned in protest of ACTA on 26 January 2012
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