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EU-India Free Trade Agreement draft, 24 Feb 2009

EU-India Free Trade Agreement draft, 24 Feb 2009

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Release date
June 23, 2009
Summary
This important EU-restricted document establishes the latest "clean text" draft of the EU-India free trade agreement (FTA). The agreement is scheduled to have a profound impact on many laws, industries and prices. This includes patent and copyright laws, the pharmaceutical industry and the cost of health care in both Europe and India.
The draft contains passages similar to the prospective plurilateral "Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement" or ACTA, which has been widely condemned by civil society activists as a Trojan horse for the US drug and copyright industries (several ACTA drafts have also been released by WikiLeaks).
It is vital for industry and civil society in the EU and India to know what their government's intend to agree to, at a time when these agreements are still plyable, and not after, when the details have become a political fait accompli.
For a related analysis, see "Will India Accept Trips-Plus Protection?" (PDF).
Another copy of the document was released on April 17, 2009 by civil society site http://bilaterals.org/
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Context
India
Government (bureaucracy)
Directorate General for Trade of the European Commission
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File size in bytes
3875730
File type information
PDF document, version 1.3
Cryptographic identity
SHA256 aa085e6066b5463e0525f1cd952e9cfc6c345a89b874baa31540feefe57b76db


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