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Germany Delays ACTA Signature, Wants More Discussion

Posted by timothy on Friday February 10, 2012 @06:29AM from the frustrated-angola-could-not-be-reached dept.

First time accepted submitter willodotcom writes "Germany has joined Latvia, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia in delaying their signing of ACTA, citing 'time to carry out further discussions' as the reason."

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Re:Very reasonable by Anonymous Coward · 2012-02-10 09:52 · Score: 5, Interesting

ACTA is treated as a "mixed treaty" in the EU, which means that according to the rules of procedure it has to be ratified by the European parliament _and_ all of the national parliaments in order to be valid anywhere. If it doesn't pass in Germany (or some other member state) it doesn't pass anywhere in the EU. At all.