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To do this weekend:

I am asking members and guest to email their MEPs asking for them to vote for Telecom package amendments 133 and 138.

http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2008/09/20/to-do-this-weekend-ask-your-meps-to-vote-for-telecom-package-amendments-133-and-138/

Posted by Becky in Copyright, Data Protection, Intellectual Property, Net Neutrality, Privacy at September 20th, 2008
Next Wednesday, MEPs will vote on the Telecoms package.

Two amendments have been tabled which in particular will ensure the new telecoms regulations protect European citizens from unreasonable surveillance and censure.

If you have half an hour this weekend, why not not write to to your MEPs http://www.writetothem.com/ and ask them to support these amendments?

Amendment 133 is an anti-filtering amendment, and will add the following text to the Directive:
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Amendment 138 ensures that sanctions cannot be imposed on end-users without judicial oversight. It will add the following text to the Directive:
 
well just got a reply back to my email

Ive removed email addresses and names but left the rest intact.

Dear Mr XXXXXXXXX,

Thank you for your email regarding the vote on 7th July 2008 on the Telecoms package in the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO) and Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) committees in the European Parliament.

It was widely reported that some of the amendments proposed will damage the openness of the Internet and reduce the rights of internet users. This is incorrect as the legislation does not propose the monitoring of individual customer usage of the internet or contain any provisions on Copyright Law enforcement. MEP's voted in favour of a series of amendments that enhance users´ rights in electronic communications, with copyright issues being restricted to public service information only.

Some of the key points of the Telecoms package are summarised below:

- Users will now be informed by operators, before contracts are concluded, about any restrictions on access to services.

- Market demand and competition between operators will decide whether they see any point in restricting access. It does not give governments new powers to decide that, or to make applications illegal.

- Where handsets or other terminal equipment are included free, or at a subsidised price, users must be informed of the cost of terminating their agreement early.

- Number porting (the process of keeping a number when switching networks) will now take one day (while it has previously taken up to one month).

- Promotion of the European 112 emergency call number across the EU, and measures to speed up the availability of mobile caller location when emergency calls are made. This is complementary to existing national emergency numbers.

- Disabled users will have equivalent access to communications with special terminal equipment for their needs.

- The need to keep the Internet open by empowering regulators to intervene if a carrier discriminated against a particular service provider - for example, by blocking or slowing traffic.

- Regulators would be given enabling powers to allow standardised public service messages to be delivered to users. These service messages could include security protection advice, and advice on harmful or unlawful uses of the Internet, and their potential consequences. The information would be sent to all users, not to targeted individuals and not based on individual usage. Copyright infringement is just one of the areas that might be covered, but it will be up to public authorities to supply the information.

Under Parliament's rules, the IMCO Committee also accepted, without a vote, a set of amendments from the Civil Liberties Committee on data protection. These include significant new requirements for operators to inform subscribers in the event of any breach of their personal data through electronic networks.

I do not sit on either the IMCO or ITRE Committees and so did not vote on this report last week. However, I understand from my colleagues on both these committees that there is cross party support for this line.

I hope that this information helps clarify elements of the Telecoms package and puts your mind at rest.

Yours sincerely

Liz Lynne MEP
 
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