Civil Division

civil division | division for civil matters

Vital Statistics Section

civil engineer section

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Infostar computerised civil status register | Infostar

O. whereas in its report of 12 December 2013, the President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communication Technology proposes 46 recommendations to the President of the United States; whereas the recommendations stress the need simultaneously to protect national security and personal privacy and civil liberties; whereas in this regard it invites the US Government: to end bulk collection of phone records of US persons under Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act as soon as practicable; to undertake a thorough review of the NSA and t ...[+++]he US intelligence legal framework in order to ensure respect for the right to privacy; to end efforts to subvert or make vulnerable commercial software (backdoors and malware); to increase the use of encryption, particularly in the case of data in transit, and not to undermine efforts to create encryption standards; to create a Public Interest Advocate to represent privacy and civil liberties before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court; to confer on the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board the power to oversee Intelligence Community activities for foreign intelligence purposes, and not only for counterterrorism purposes; and to receive whistleblowers’ complaints, to use Mutual Legal Assistance Treaties to obtain electronic communications, and not to use surveillance to steal industry or trade secrets;

B. whereas the Commission has repeatedly affirmed the importance of enforcing the protection of geographical indications (GIs); whereas it has been agreed by parties that ACTA will provide for the enforcement of GIs in the general sections, as well as in the civil, customs and digital sections,

26. Welcomes that in the civil enforcement section of ACTA patents may be excluded, as this could have hampered access to legal, affordable, and life-saving drugs; asserts that marked increases in damages and in other remedies for possible IP violations will deter generic competition and third parties involved in the production, sale or distribution of affordable generic medicines, particularly if these provisions are applied to in-transit goods; is concerned that applying civil enforcement provisions to patents in ACTA could go against the public interest by enforcing patents on living things, ...[+++] indigenous products and traditional medicines and may increase investment risk, market uncertainty and threaten technological innovation, particularly in sectors where infringement is difficult to determine; therefore urges the Commission the remove patents from the civil enforcement section;

12. Rejects the inclusion of patents in the civil enforcement section of ACTA, in particular with regards to the production, sale and distribution of affordable generic medicines; Calls therefore on the Commission to support the explicit and absolute exclusion of patents form the scope of the Civil Enforcement Section of the Agreement;