The European Parliament will make the final decision at the beginning of July

Jun 21, 2012 14:38 GMT  ·  By

The European Parliament has struck another blow to the head of the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). Earlier today, the International Trade Committee (INTA) recommended the rejection of the bill with 19 votes to 12.

According to RT, this was the last committee delegated to provide a report on ACTA and it’s likely that the Parliament’s decision in July will be based on it.

ACTA has been highly contested by activists, hacktivists and regular Internet users and many countries have refrained from making a clear decision regarding its adoption because of this.

Now, Europe awaits the EP’s decision, but many are confident that ACTA will meet its doom in July.

“If the whole of Parliament rejects ACTA, then it will be politically dead forever,” digital rights expert Jeremie Zimmermann told RT.

“Then we can push forward a positive reform of copyright, where acts of sharing carried out with no aim of profit would not be combatted anymore, but would be legalized. This way we can invent a copyright system that would not contravene freedom of expression and other fundamental freedoms.”