[Advocacy Advisors] EU Policy Monitoring Report March

[Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov]

I am travelling now, so I can't post the relevant AMs here now, but it
looks like they closed most loopholes and likely zero services.

Will write again later.

Dimi
Le 3 avr. 2014 17:55, "Yana Welinder" <ywelinder at wikimedia.org> a écrit :

> The EP adopted the proposal today[1], but I haven't had a chance to review
> the final language yet.
>
> Best,
> Yana
>
> [1]
> https://www.laquadrature.net/en/net-neutrality-a-great-step-forward-for-the-free-internet
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 7:49 AM, Bence Damokos <bdamokos at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Dimi,
>>
>> Thanks for the report, very informative as always.
>>
>> Have you had a chance to look at the vote on net neutrality in Parliament
>> today and see what the Parliament's version looks like in the end?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Bence
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 6:50 PM, Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov <
>> dimitar.parvanov.dimitrov at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> #netneutrality
>>>
>>> 3. Crucial network neutrality vote to be held on 3 April
>>>
>>> Why is this relevant?
>>>
>>> It is a fundamental internet issue. Briefly, the legislation will
>>> determine what agreements between content providers and telecoms will be
>>> legal in the EU. The current draft of the regulation permits "specialised
>>> services" in contrast to the best effort principle. If these are allowed
>>> and defined too broadly, it would effectively result in an internet where
>>> content providers with more money can secure preferential access to end
>>> users. Start-up projects without financial backing (like Wikipedia was some
>>> years ago) would hence be disadvantaged. If, on the other hand,
>>> "specialised services" are defined too narrowly or even prohibited, it
>>> would mean the end to zero-charge projects (like Wikipedia Zero).
>>>
>>> What happened?
>>>
>>> The Commission proposal on net neutrality [8] officially promotes the
>>> concept, but contains many loopholes. The European Parliament report from
>>> the ITRE (Industry) Committee failed to close most of them. [9] Now, four
>>> parliamentary groups have tabled amendments [10][11] ahead of the final
>>> vote that would seriously limit the possible exceptions. The split lines
>>> run along Socialists & Democrats, Greens, the Left Group and Liberals
>>> proposing the changes and the conservatives (EPP, ECR) endorsing the ITRE
>>> version. However, most groups might end up with a split vote, making the
>>> outcome hard to predict
>>>
>>> What comes next?
>>>
>>> The vote will take place on Thursday, 3 April 2014 during the plenary
>>> session in Strasbourg. It is most likely to come up in the afternoon. [12]
>>>
>>
>>
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