A divided Euro-chamber postpones its position on the copyright directive to September


A divided Euro-chamber postpones its position on the copyright directive to September




The plenary has refused to defend before the Council the hard position already agreed by the MEPs in committee




Not yet. The plenary session of the European Parliament rejected this morning the negotiating mandate already approved by the Legal Affairs Committee on the new directive on copyright in the digital age presented by the Commission in 2016 and looking, 'grosso modo', defend the European creators of the 'anything goes' of the great American technology like Google or Facebook.

What the plenary session has done is to freeze the whole procedure and give time until September to agree on a new negotiating position to defend in the trialogues with the Council (the 28 countries) and the Commission. The vote, very tight, has had 278 votes in favor, 318 against and 31 abstentions.

Misinformation and controversy has marked this process, as many MEPs have denounced. In fact, today the directive itself was not approved, as many claimed. What was approved today is that the negotiating team of the European Parliament receive the green light from the plenary to start negotiations with the Council. Untill there. That is, start another negotiation that could end in one way or another.

The key to everything is that the plenary has decided to knock down the proposal already approved by the MEPs in the Legal Affairs Committee. It is true that he went ahead, but he did it very tightly, which shows a huge division in the heart of the institution that he did not like given the relevance of the matter to be dealt with.

The pressure has been enormous, as the speaker of the document once again criticized, the German Axel Voss, who has come to speak of death threats or the sons of MEPs.

"What we are looking for is to end once and for all the exploitation of European artists through the Internet and to report huge profits to the American giants," Voss has defended. His harangue, however, has not counted on the majority of the Chamber, which considers that the balance between the rights of the authors and that of the users is not sufficiently balanced in this mandated negotiator.

And now that? Play open the melon, sit down and talk and renegotiate a text that achieves a sufficient majority. Mind you, it is about the European Parliament agreeing on a common position to defend before the Council, nothing more.

Once this next phase has begun and if an agreement between the European Parliament and the 28 capitals comes to fruition, the subject would return to the plenary of the European Parliament the final approval of the controversial directive. When? At the earliest, already moving forward in 2019.

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