IMCO

The ITRE/IMCO committee are meeting on the 31 March 2009 to dicuss these and other alarming amendments.

Boing Boing 2009

If you want to voice your concerns about 3 strikes legislation brought in through the backdoor in Brussels, you have until 7 July, the date of the vote in IMCO and ITRE committees, to contact your MEP and inform them that the “Telecoms Package” amendments could bring in disproportionate and ineffective law.

Archive 2008-07-01 2008

IMCO, it is mankind failing to use his rational faculty as he should.

CSK: Redux Editorial Anonymous 2009

Weaken further already inadequate measures intended to allow orphan works, and commercially worthless but culturally significant recordings to pass into the public domain (Culture (CULT), Internal Market (IMCO) and the Industry, Technology and Research (ITRE) committees draft reports).

B2fxxx 2008

Allow record labels to deduct “costs” from a fund intended to benefit session musicians, further shrinking the pot of money made available to performers in favour of labels IMCO committee draft report.

B2fxxx 2008

If you want to voice your concerns about 3 strikes legislation brought in through the backdoor in Brussels, you have until 7 July, the date of the vote in IMCO and ITRE committees, to contact your MEP and inform them that the “Telecoms Package” amendments could bring in disproportionate and ineffective law.

EU Telecoms Package seeks to end internet freedom next Monday 2008

The IMCO vote does not give governments new powers to decide that, or to make applications illegal.

B2fxxx 2008

Following an intense debate and many hearings, the European Parliament's Industry, Research and Energy Committee (ITRE) and the Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee (IMCO) voted on amendments on 7 July (MEMO/08/491).

Archive 2008-08-18 Jak Boumans 2008

Given that the telecoms framework legislative package, with its secret 3 strikes copyright amendments, is being considered by two important EU committes today (the IMCO (Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection) and ITRE (Committee on Industry, Research and Energy) committees for the EU anoraks amongst you), it is perhaps unsurprising that Phillipe Aigrain takes the opportunity to rail against what he perceives to be corruption of the policymaking process in the EU.

B2fxxx 2008

I wrote to my MEPs last week about the vote on the complex telecoms package in the EU's IMCO and ITRE committees, particularly noting that several amendments might facilitate the coming of a 3 strikes mandate.

B2fxxx 2008